(7 Jun 2024) Libraries play a crucial role in an institution reputation development. However, the low level of literacy among the public often poses a challenge. This is due to the lack of competence standards among librarians in managing libraries. This was emphasized by the Acting Head of the National Library of the Republic of…
(6 Jun 2024) The second China-Russia Library Forum, themed on the application of artificial intelligence in libraries, concluded in Beijing on Wednesday. In-depth exchanges and discussions on “professional libraries,” “document preservation and protection,” “social public service” and “smart libraries” were conducted during the two-day forum, which was co-hosted by the National Library of China and the…
(6 Jun 2024) Elsevier announces the upcoming release of CiteScore 2023, a powerful metric that provides transparent insights into journal citation impact. Key Highlights of CiteScore 2023 Release: Expanded Coverage: CiteScore 2023 includes 29,777 active titles, with 2,212 titles receiving their first CiteScore. This broader coverage ensures a more complete dataset for evaluating journal impact.…
(17 Jun 2024) At last month’s CHORUS Forum on Navigating the Future of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) in Scholarly Publishing speakers presentations covered a lot of ground regarding benefits and challenges with PIDs but what stood out were: Burdens: Researchers spending too much time on admin tasks and difficulties conducting analysis Benefits: Ability to track metrics and make reliable…
(17 Jun 2024) AskAdis is a new cutting-edge conversational chat interface developed by Springer Nature for the pharmaceutical drug development market using its AdisInsight , a market-leading drug development intelligence database with over half a million users annually. Off-the-shelf LLMs (large language models) are often inaccurate, incomplete or unreliable as they draw on all the content…