(23 Apr 2025) The Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS) and the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) have announced “a significant development” in the licensing of content for generative AI. The…
(21 Apr 2025) ERIC stands for Education Resources Information Center and it is a curated online public library of 2.1 million educational documents that is funded and managed by the U.S.…
(23 Apr 2025) Clarivate Plc released EndNote 2025, a comprehensive reference management solution that streamlines the research and writing process. Its new features include AI support, enhanced referencing tools, and…
(23 Apr 2025) The Associate Director, Library Experience and Research Services is a dynamic senior leader role which provides bold and strategic leadership to deliver a unified vision for library…
(17 Apr 2025) ProQuest, part of Clarivate, has introduced the Ebook Central Research Assistant, a new AI tool designed to enhance user engagement with scholarly ebooks. Integrated into the Ebook Central platform, the…
(16 Apr 2025) The Center for Open Science (COS) has announced the launch of the Replicability Project: Health Behavior (RPHB), a collaborative initiative that aims to strengthen the evidence base and advance…
(16 Apr 2025) The discontinuation of the UGC-CARE list and the shift towards decentralized evaluation [of academic journals] have the potential to bring about significant changes in Indian academia. On…
(18 Apr 2025) After freezing all grants to Columbia University last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities that…
By Ruth A Pagell* (21 Apr 2025) Living in the United States and writing about higher education has been challenging so far this year. I keep getting distracted from my…
(15 Apr 2025) The organization responsible for allocating basic research funding in China has issued misconduct findings against 26 researchers for violations ranging from breach of confidentiality to image manipulation, plagiarism,…
(14 Apr 2025) From Aaron Tay’s Musings about librarianship: “I recently compared three academic AI search tools: Primo Research Assistant, Web of Science Research Assistant, and Scopus AI for a review article. Why…
(14 Apr 2025) Requests to remove books from library shelves are on the rise in the UK, as the influence of pressure groups behind book bans in the US crosses the…
(9 Apr 2025) The Japan Academic Association for Copyright Clearance (JAC), in collaboration with RightsDirect Japan, a subsidiary of CCC (Copyright Clearance Center), today announced the availability of artificial intelligence (AI) re-use rights within the Digital Copyright…
(28 Mar 2025) A spate of research findings offer fresh evidence in the debate about whether peer reviewers should be paid for their time and expertise — a fraught topic that…
(4 Apr 2025) Following the University of California Ebook Usability Common Knowledge Group’s (EUCKG) analysis of 3 publisher platforms (Cambridge, Elsevier, and Wiley) and the publication of an initial report, the EUCKG…
