(16 Dec 2024) Google Scholar turned 20 last month and Nature wrote a piece with the title “Can Google Scholar survive the AI revolution?” and quoted as saying “Up until recently, Google…
(16 Dec 2024) The first ever IFLA Guidelines for Libraries Supporting Displaced Persons grew from a chapter inside the 2017 IFLA Guidelines for library services to people who experience homelessness published by the IFLA…
(13 Dec 2024) Sage has acquired Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., a renowned global media company publishing more than 100 peer-reviewed journals in biotechnology and the life sciences, specialized clinical medicine,…
(12 Dec 2024) For nearly twenty-five years, the Library of Congress has been archiving campaign websites for Presidential, Congressional, and gubernatorial elections. Back in 2022, we released a dataset of index files…
(9 Dec 2024) In many cases, AI systems gather external information to use as context when answering a particular query. For example, to answer a question about a medical condition, the…
(11 Dec 2024) Subscribe to Open (S2O), the model by which open access publication is funded by annually renewed subscriptions, has grown exponentially since it was first implemented by Annual Reviews.* A…
(12 Dec 2024) Clarivate Plc today announced the launch of AI Search in Derwent. Combining artificial intelligence (AI) with the premier source of global patent data, Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI),…
(12 Dec 2024) Coursera releases its fourth annual Job Skills Report, which highlights the critical skills that individuals and institutions are prioritizing for 2025. The Job Skills Report 2025…
(27 Nov 2024) ChatGPT search—which is positioned as a competitor to search engines like Google and Bing—launched with a press release from OpenAI touting claims that the company had “collaborated extensively with…
(11 Dec 2024) An experimental journal is paying peer reviewers the equivalent of US$150 per review in a specially developed cryptocurrency. The publication is hosted on a platform aiming to make science more…
(2 Dec 2024) Authors affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) can now make their research freely accessible through a special open access initiative by the American Chemical Society (ACS). This limited-time offer,…
(4 Dec 2024) The Internet Archive lost its case against some of the largest publishers in the world after it decided not to elevate the September judgment to the Supreme Court.…
(4 Dec 2024) Japan is planning to implement artificial intelligence to police anime and manga pirating websites that the pop-culture powerhouse accuses of costing it billions of dollars in lost revenue…
(10 Dec 2024) As 2024 slowly comes to a close, Google has released its annual report detailing the most searched topics worldwide. The findings offer a snapshot of what captured…
(4 Dec 2024) AI-assisted document query and summarization services are becoming more common. This post compares the ‘ask a PDF’ outputs of several services. Overall responses were good, with reasonable…
