(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,…
(1 Jun 2025) Charles Sturt University has developed the S.E.C.U.R.E. framework to guide university staff in making informed decisions about using GenAI software according to risk parameters. It organizes GenAI-related risks into six categories: Security Credentials Ethical Use Confidential Information Use of Personal Information Rights Protection Evaluation of Outputs Find out more about…
(14 May 2025) On May 2, the German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED), announced they were planning to develop an “open, reliable, and sustainable” alternative to PubMed. The big vision is to move past the reliance on any single country’s investment in this core life sciences infrastructure: It’s not to have a duplicative, parallel structure…
(7 Jun 2025) With the rise of smartphones, smart speakers, and other products, digital audiobooks are taking off in a big way. Their market share is expected to increase by 26.4% year-over-year and is projected to reach globally $ 10 billion in 2025, growing to $ 56.09 billion by 2032. Coherent Market Insights provided this…