Researchers Are Using AI. How Can Publishers Keep Up?

An interview with Springer Nature on its stance toward AI

Posted on October 22, 2025 in Podcasts

While librarians may have mixed feelings about the use of AI in writing and publishing, we know that some writers and researchers are already using AI as a writing coach, translator, or research assistant. Different publishers have taken various stances, from banning AI completely to encouraging it for some uses. In this interview with Harmen van Paradijs, Vice President STM Books Publishing & Books Business Optimization at Springer Nature, we learn more about Springer’s approach to this nettlesome issue.

Expect to learn:

• Anecdotes, research findings, and current trends about how academic researchers are using AI
• Springer’s responses to different kinds of AI use in writing
• Springer’s decision to donate its AI detection tool to encourage research integrity

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About the guest:

Harmen Van Paradijs
Vice President STM Books Publishing & Books Business Optimization
Springer Nature

Harmen van Paradijs is Vice President STM Books Publishing & Books Business Optimization at Springer Nature, based in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. He has responsibility for the STM Books publishing programs published under the imprints of Springer, Apress and Birkhäuser. He leads an editorial team located in more than twenty cities around the globe.

Harmen received his Master of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Upon obtaining his degree he joined McGraw-Hill Publishing Company as a sales representative in the Netherlands, and later as marketing manager in the UK. He returned to the Netherlands to join Pearson Education and held various marketing and sales roles. Harmen joined Springer in the Netherlands in 2005 as publishing editor for the education program. From 2012 to 2018 Harmen was based in Singapore, where he established the editorial operations for the Humanities, Social Sciences and Business/Economics in China, East Asia, Southeast Asia and Australasia.

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