(15 Oct 2024) In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs (Large Language Models). These deals illuminate how major publishers are grappling with their strategy amid uncertainty, but thus far they have been unavailable to smaller and medium size publishers. To understand…
(15 Oct 2024) Plan S, the effort by European funders to increase the share of journal articles that can be read without a subscription, has had an unintended outcome, a report released today says. It has spurred progress toward open access, but most of the growth has occurred in so-called hybrid journals that also publish…
(28 Sep 2024) Libraries across the country are experiencing an unexpected surge in popularity among a cohort that once shunned them – teenagers. The State Library of NSW is bracing for a 20 per cent-plus increase in students cramming for their final-year exams. It is adding extra seats and clearing all available space for a…