A brief outage has focused attention on scientists’ reliance on the US-government-funded website. (4 Mar 2025) A temporary outage of the US-government-funded PubMed database of biomedical literature over the weekend sent many researchers globally into a panic. Although the disruption does not seem to have been deliberate, and the service has since been restored,…
(28 Feb 2025) The Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL) is seeking a Data Analyst to increase our analytics capacity, drive evidence-based decision-making, inform negotiations, and communicate impact. In this role, you’ll work with diverse datasets to uncover insights that directly influence sector-wide strategy and decision-making. From exploring scholarly publishing trends and analyzing benchmarking data…
(3 Mar 2025) Are you an energetic person who thrives on providing quality service to library users? Do you have an understanding of electronic resource management processes in a library environment? If you do and you are well organised, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to liaise with abroad range of people, and are…
(4 Mar 2025) About the role: As Senior Librarian, Monographs and Digital Collections, you will be responsible for acquisition and access of mainly non-subscription resources, and textbooks in print and electronic formats. Your primary focus is to develop and test new or improved workflows and/or software, implement metadata standards, and troubleshoot advice for highly complex…
(11 Mar 2025) About the Role: Working closely with the Library Coordinator (Education Engagement), The Library Coordinator (Researcher Engagement) will oversee the services of the library for researchers and Higher Degree Research (HDR) students. The role is responsible for the operational management and provision of advisory services to support data management, metrics, citation impact, and…
(26 Feb 2025) This month on Choice’s The Authority File podcast, Bill Mickey chats with Rosalyn Metz, Chief Technology Officer for Libraries and Museum at Emory University, about a frustrating new issue. At a 2024 Charleston Conference panel, Rosalyn shared a quick anecdote on how spikes in AI bot traffic on Emory library’s website have led to…
(6 Mar 2025) The AI-ification of Google Search continues to accelerate: the company announced on Wednesday that it will start showing AI Overviews for even more kinds of queries, and that users around the world, even those who are logged out of Google, will start seeing them too. There’s an even more ambitious AI search…
(6 Mar 2025) In the 12 years that ORCID has been sharing the Public Data File, it has been downloaded more than 190,000 times, serving as a data source for a diverse range of projects such as the analysis of relationships and individual trajectories within the research community, scientific migrations, collaboration networks, and the adoption…
(4 Mar 2025) Today at SXSW® EDU, Turnitin introduced its latest product, Turnitin Clarity. In the age of AI, Turnitin Clarity touts a variety of features, including educator-guided AI assistance and a composition experience for students, that benefit the entire educational community – not just students. It will be available as an extension to Turnitin Feedback Studio . Turnitin Clarity includes…
(5 Mar 2025) This report summarizes the findings of a survey conducted by SCONUL , the professional association for academic and research libraries in the UK and Ireland, on the future of the systems librarian. This is a strategically important role for libraries which are heavily automated and digitised environments relying on a very wide…