(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…
(2 Jun 2024) Coherent Digital today announced the launch of a major new resource to collect, preserve, and disseminate critical research from Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. Policy Commons: Oceania includes over one million research reports, statistical manuals, surveys, and other grey literature from national, state, and local governments, think tanks, associations, and…
(12 Jun 2024) Jagiellonian University in Kraków introduced a ranking of journals based on Elsevier’s Scopus database to evaluate the research output for awards, promotions, and hiring process. It is found that it has inadvertently included three fake journals in its top 10 philosophy list. The journals, published by Addleton Academic Publishers, have high CiteScore…
(11 Jun 2024) Coursera announces several new genAI-powered features designed to scale assessment creation and grading, strengthen academic integrity, and enhance learning and evaluation. These features, including AI-Assisted Grading, Proctoring and Lockdown Browser, and AI-based Viva Exams will help campuses deliver authentic learning to students while increasing the value of online assessments, courses, and certificates.…
(8 Jun 2024) The recent and dramatic increase in AI-generated images is blurring the lines of what’s real and fake—and underscores the need for more tools to discern between the two. In a recent study, researchers in Italy analyzed a suite of AI models designed to identify fake images, finding these current methods to be…
(12 Jun 2024) LibTech Insights spoke to Matt Sherman at Drexel University to learn more about his job as a Digital Curation Librarian. This is the 3rd installment of a series of library tech jobs. Read more here.
(31 May 2024) The Library now seeks an enthusiastic, communicative, and organised individual to join its Digital Initiatives and Research Cluster (DIR). The successful candidate will be a proactive champion of the Library’s leading role in supporting digital scholarship. They will: Lead a small team comprising of programmers, database administrators, and visual designers to develop digital…
(12 Jun 2024) Increased instances of fraudulent research are affecting the academic publishing community. Following successful pilots, Springer Nature is rolling out two new bespoke AI tools to support the identification of papers that contain AI-generated fake content and / or problematic images – two indicators of research integrity issues. Developed with Slimmer AI Science…
(12 Jun 2024) About the role: The role is responsible for the Library’s processes of acquisition, access, integration and deselection of scholarly works and digital content to support the Research, Learning and Teaching activities of the University. The successful incumbent will promote ideas and review practices and policies and support the delivery of Library services. …