(30 Mar 2023) “Some call them Special Issues (MDPI & Hindawi), others call them Research Topics (Frontiers), and others Collections (Springer Nature). In this post, I will refer to them as articles published via the Guest Editor model, whereby a journal invites a scholar or a group of scholars to serve as guest editors for…
(30 Mar 2023) Creating impact through research is the prime aim of most academics. However, considering academic impact, it is estimated that only 68 percent of social sciences research papers get cited, but only 20 percent of these are read by the academic community. To be an open researcher is more than simply openly…
(31 Mar 2023) Having the tools to find quality information and spot misinformation is always important— but it’s a necessity in the moments that matter most, like in times of crisis or when you’re looking for sensitive information like health or financial advice. With International Fact-Checking Day coming up, Google wanted to acknowledge these vulnerable…
(30 Mar 2023) On 16 March librarians and academics at universities and research institutions in several countries received notices that some access to China’s largest database of academic papers would be ‘temporarily’ curtailed from 1 April. The notifications arrived without clarifying how long this would be. These notifications, in particular, affected four databases of the…
(7 Mar 2023) The use of AI to generate art raises a number of moral, ethical and philosophical questions. What impact will AI have on artists? Will AI discourage new artists? Do the images even constitute art? What are the copyright implications? While these issues will need to be debated and decided on as…
(16 Mar 2023) Perbadanan Kota Buku (PKB), the country’s largest digital book platform provider, will collaborate with other e-book platforms in the Asian region soon to diversify quality reading resources for the community, says its chief executive officer Adibah Omar. She said for a start, the entity under the Ministry of Education (MOE), forged a…
(26 Mar 2023) The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has released a new version of the Digital Preservation Policy Toolkit to coincide with its Relaunch Roadshow in Australasia. Now freely available for anyone within the digital preservation community to use and designed for organizations of any type, the Digital Preservation Policy Toolkit guides users from initial…
(1 Mar 2023) Research, and how it is conducted, is ever-changing and requires those that are tasked in its support to also keep up-to-date in Research Data Management, Open Access and Open Science in general. OpenAIRE’s train-the-trainer bootcamps aim at empowering trainers with the knowledge and the know-hows of Open Science so they can pass it…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (19 Mar 2023) In order to pay my way into the Internet Librarian conference that I described in RR 54, I agreed to write an article about the conference for the Online Searcher section of the Computers In Libraries magazine. Until 2023, Online Searcher had been a stand-alone publication itself, with…
(23 Mar 2023) AI tools can help us create content, learn about the world and (perhaps) eliminate the more mundane tasks in life – but they aren’t perfect. They’ve been shown to hallucinate information, use other people’s work without consent, and embed social conventions, including apologies, to gain users’ trust. For example, certain AI chatbots,…