(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 betting big on AI, like Google, because they make the responses it generates unreliable. Google is releasing a tool today to address the issue.…
(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 the public and free to use via the ARDC’s Research Vocabularies Australia (RVA) service at https://vocabs.ardc.edu.au/viewById/685. The RDMT enables those working on research data management…
(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 books specialized in artistic literature and published between the late 15th and early 20th centuries. More than 1,700,000 pages have been digitized, the cataloging…
(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 was 4Q 2024 with some believing it might even be delayed). Despite the fact that there are so many RAG (retrieval augmented generation) academic search systems today…
(5 Sep 2024) In the first half of 2024, institutions of higher education in the United States closed permanently at the rate of one per week, according to one estimate, with little sign of slowing down. Where the author lives in Pennsylvania, eight colleges have closed, consolidated, or announced plans to do so since January 2024…
(25 Sep 2024) A study of newer, bigger versions of three major artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots shows that they are more inclined to generate wrong answers than to admit ignorance. The assessment also found that people aren’t great at spotting the bad answers. Plenty of attention has been given to the fact that the large language models (LLMs)…
(18 Sep 2024) Clarivate Plc today launched Primo™ Research Assistant. Developed in collaboration with partners from the library community, the new generative AI-powered library discovery solution offers a seamless experience for students and researchers. It provides immediate answers to natural language queries and offers expansive visibility into sources and references. Primo Research Assistant, part of…
(25 Sep 2024) In recent years, China has become a world leader in a key measure of scientific impact: the number of academic papers produced by researchers there that are then widely cited by other scientists. Now, two analyses identify one factor that might be helping boost these citations: An unusually high number is coming from…
(23 Sep 2024) EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has published the 2025 Serials Price Projection Report, offering valuable insights into the financial landscape for libraries and publishers as they prepare for the upcoming renewal season. This year’s report projects overall effective publisher price increases for libraries are four to five percent for individual e-journal titles, three and…