(30 Sep 2024) Web of Science, Clarivate’s influential database of abstracts and citations, has paused indexation of new content from the open-access journals Heliyon and Cureus, apparently due to concerns about the quality…
(30 Sep 2024) We don’t need to know for sure what the future holds for libraries and the communities they serve in order to be able to play a role…
(25 Sep 2024) As Peer Review Week kicks off, STM is excited to announce the launch of the Peer Review Terminology website—a new resource designed to bring greater clarity, consistency, and transparency…
(30 Sep 2024) This report profiles the trends and key technologies and practices shaping the future of cybersecurity and privacy, and envisions a number of scenarios for that future. It…
(27 Sep 2024) A hundred years ago, in Madras Presidency, there lived a libarian name S R Ranganathan (SRR), who was bored. So Bored that in Jan 1924, just a…
By Ruth A Pagell* (30 Sep 2024) Several rankings were released while I relived the past, writing RR 60. Changes include: Webometrics adding ROR (Research Organizations Registry) identity records to…
(27 Sep 2024) The New Zealand Listener magazine began its life back in 1939 as the Journal of the National Broadcasting Service, with the purpose of providing radio listeners with a printed weekly programme.…
(24 Sep 2024) A university library opened in 1985 has been named the winner of the inaugural Taiwan Architecture 25-Year-Old Award, which was established to show the public that old buildings…
(16 Sep 2024) Curtin University’s TL Robertson Library has won the prestigious Social and Community Infrastructure Award at the 2024 Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) WA Awards for Excellence. The…
(30 Sep 2024) Frontiers is pleased to announce a new partnership with China’s National Science and Technology Library (NSTL). This collaboration marks a pivotal moment in the advancement of open science…
(4 Sep 2024) Widely considered to be the earliest form of audio recordings, wax cylinders offer rare glimpses into how the world sounded in the distant past. Indeed, a…
(12 Sep 2024) As long as chatbots have been around, they have made things up. Such “hallucinations” are an inherent part of how AI models work. However, they’re a big problem for companies…
(16 Sep 2024) CODATA and the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) are delighted to announce the publication of the machine-actionable CODATA Research Data Management Terminology (RDMT). The Terminology is open to…
(20 Sep 2024) The Prado Museum’s new Digital Library, developed with funds from the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR), offers free access to 5600 issues of magazines and 6000…
(16 Sep 2024) From Aaron Tay’s Musings about librarianship blog: “Ex Libris surprised us by suddenly releasing Primo Research Assistant to production on September 9, 2024 (when the earlier timeline…
