Scholarly publishing is shaken by allegations of collusion and restraint of trade
Posted 01 October 2024
The new article type is now available at PLOS Climate, PLOS Global Public Health, PLOS Mental Health and PLOS Water.
Posted 01 October 2024
Clarivate Plc launched its first Pulse of the Library report on 9 September 2024, revealing that libraries are in the early days of Artificial Intelligence (AI) implementation and on 25 September 2024 unveiled its Comprehensive Framework to Evaluate the Societal Impact of Research.
Posted 01 October 2024
The partnership of Recollect and SirsiDynix to bring Recollect's Digital Collection Management and Community Engagement solution to SirsiDynix customers worldwide.
Posted 03 September 2024
Dewey linked data creates connections between broad classification numbers and specific subject topics.
Posted 03 September 2024
Heidi Julien, Professor in Information Science, University of Buffalo, used her keynote address at the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) conference to call for a greater emphasis on marginalized groups in research studies and to fight against the neoliberal approach to higher education.
Posted 03 September 2024
International is not in the official name of the ALA's annual conference, held this year in San Diego, California, at the end of June, but it has a strong international component and many delegates from outside the USA.
Posted 06 August 2024
In a groundbreaking move, augmented reality technology will be incorporated into Karger's scientific journal, offering authors new options to visualize their research.
Posted 02 July 2024
Sage has launched a free-to-read hub of social and behavioral science resources to foster evidence-based discussions about democracy and the 2024 elections inside and outside the classroom. This is particularly important in a year where half the world's population will exercise their democratic right to vote.
Posted 02 July 2024
Searching the scholarly literature has long presented challenges to researchers, who grapple with online searching using keyword methods when they want to find concepts. Peter Webster, Technology Services Librarian at Saint Mary's University, Patrick Power Library, in Canada, became interested in how AI tools could make academic searching easier and solve the problems of concept identification. Here are his thoughts.
Posted 07 May 2024
A new report from the DIAMAS work package that SPARC Europe leads looks at understanding how institutional publishing is sustained today. Institutional publishers and service providers are diverse due to their missions, size and service provision. In addition, there is no definitive set of tasks that all institutional publishers share. These characteristics influence the sustainability options available to them and the choices they make.
Posted 05 April 2024
New OCLC Leaders Council to be phased in over the next year
Posted 02 April 2024
Information gathered from ChatGPT and other generative AI chatbots have been infiltrating the scholarly literature, according to several accounts appearing in the popular press, which is worrisome not only for scholars and librarians but also for the wider world. Distrust of scientific research has enormous implications. How bad is the problem? Marydee Ojala investigates.
Posted 02 April 2024
The two new titles in its collection of case studies are Animal Science Cases and Food Science and Nutrition Cases. The titles have been launched to answer the need for practical, educational resources in these subject areas. CABI Cases are backed by CABI's longstanding expertise in research and publishing in agriculture, the environment, and the applied life sciences.
Posted 05 March 2024
Mark Carden deserves congratulations for organising one of the most distinctive conferences on the scholarly calendar. This is a smallish conference, with around 160 attendees, but the attendees—publishers, librarians, and researchers—tend to return, because they know what to expect, and everyone I spoke to agreed it has a special atmosphere.
Posted 05 March 2024
Developed and tested with the research community, Scopus AI combines the world's largest database of curated scientific literature with responsible AI.
Posted 06 February 2024
Paper mills are a real threat to the integrity of the scholarly record. Collective effort is needed because no individual stakeholder can solve this problem alone.
Posted 06 February 2024
Cyberattacks on major libraries, including the British Library and the Toronto (Canada) Public Library, have had a crippling effect on their ability to provide even routine services. We look at what happened, the repercussions, the cost involved to recover and how to prevent such calamities going forward.
Posted 06 February 2024
Sage Policy Profiles, which is free to use, demonstrates the influence of research on global policymaking through a discovery process. Results can be viewed and exported in several visual formats and shared.
Posted 02 January 2024
The acquisition of scite further enhances Research Solutions' product offerings and provides cross-selling opportunities to scite's consistently growing B2C customer base of approximately 21,000 active subscribers, as well as its diverse B2B customer base of corporate entities, leading academic institutions, and government agencies.
Posted 05 December 2023
Launched as a pilot in January 2023, Path to Open is a delayed OA model where new books are made available to supporting libraries upon publication and become OA after 3 years.
Posted 07 November 2023
The new division is designed to enhance professional development and educational skills for businesses, organizations and individuals
Posted 07 November 2023
Company embarks on projects to determine how GenAI can enhance search discovery and content creation while avoiding "hallucinations" and spurious information.
Posted 03 October 2023
Acquisition will accelerate the adoption of Patron Point Software as the go-to marketing automation platform for libraries
Posted 05 September 2023
All three awards are open to individuals or groups from anywhere in the world. Nominations for all three 2023 awards must reach UKeiG by 6 pm GMT on Friday 29 September 2023.
Posted 01 August 2023