(13 Jun 2025) Supported by “unrestricted gifts” from Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the Harvard-based Institutional Data Initiative is working with libraries and museums around the world on how to make their historic collections AI-ready in a way that also benefits the communities they serve. Harvard’s newly released dataset, Institutional Books 1.0, contains more…
(11 Jun 2025) China has extended its lead in research output, according to data released in the latest Nature Index Research Leaders(data refers to full year 2024 data only – see notes to editors). The country’s Share, the Nature Index’s key metric of author contribution to high-quality research, reached 32,122, a 17% increase on 2023, with the region now…
(15 May 2025) Google Scholar launched in November 2004 with the goal of making it easier to access scientific knowledge. But did it live up to this aim or simply create new problems? Kyriakos Drivas shows that contrary to early concerns, the platform has made older papers more discoverable and helped knowledge spread more efficiently across academic…
(11 Jun 2025) AI refusal can refer to a spectrum of approaches to AI, whether that’s refusing to use AI tools entirely, refusing the use of AI as much as possible, refusing to prioritize the use of AI, refusing to accept either boosterism or doomer narratives, refusing to accept the idea that AI is inevitable,…
(11 Jun 2025) La Trobe University Library is seeking a motivated and service-oriented Reading Lists & Resource Sharing Librarian to join our collaborative team. Based at our Bundoora campus, you will help deliver high-quality support for academic staff and students through effective management of reading lists, high-use resources, and inter-library sharing. Why you’ll love this…
(10 Jun 2025) The Seoul Metropolitan Library has officially expanded the availability of its book lending service to residents outside Seoul, including foreign nationals living in Korea, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Government on Tuesday. Previously, only residents of Seoul and individuals who were working or studying in the capital city were eligible to borrow…
(10 Jun 2025) Digital Science has announced its new Dimensions Industry Partnerships dashboard, offering world-leading support for research institutions looking to boost their industry collaboration and commercialization of research. This new dashboard is aimed at innovation, tech transfer, and economic development teams at universities, who need the kinds of insights only Dimensions can provide to inform their…
(22 May 2025) All presentations are online and the recordings from the meeting will be made available in mid-June 2025. The COAR Conference took place in Tokyo, Japan on May 12-15, 2025 and was attended by approximately 140 people representing at least 23 different countries. The meeting was jointly organized by COAR, JPCOAR, and the National Institute…
(5 Jun 2025) IOP Publishing (IOPP) is making it easier for researchers to access and share their work across the web with the free Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) browser extension. This tool enables authors who publish with IOPP to gain greater visibility and discoverability of their work, while readers enjoy a streamlined path to trusted…
(28 May 2025) A new study from Microsoft and Salesforce finds that even state-of-the-art AI language models become dramatically less reliable as conversations get longer and users reveal their requirements step by step. On average, the systems’ performance dropped by 39 percent in these scenarios. To simulate how people actually interact with AI assistants,…