(22 Jul 2025) A new research integrity risk index, which listed several of the country’s top universities as being at ‘high risk’ of systemic breaches of research integrity, has sparked a warning to universities from Indonesia’s Ministry of Higher Education and Science, calling on them to step up research integrity and improve research quality. …
(28 Jul 2025) Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed an AI agent, GeneAgent, that improves the accuracy of gene set analysis by verifying claims against expert-curated databases. GeneAgent is powered by a large language model (LLM) that generates descriptions of biological processes for given gene sets and then applies an independent self-verification module…
From Clarivate’s Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are “quietly” blocking controversial topics from being searched (29 Jul 2025) This article by Aaron Tay discusses how AI-powered academic search tools, especially Clarivate’s Summon Research Assistant and Primo Research Assistant, are being affected by content-moderation filters that block or impede…
(1 Aug 2025) Even researchers and students perform poorly at spotting “fake news” and misleading content online, as a trial in 2017 by Stanford University professor Sam Wineburg showed. Happily, Wineburg found that there is a group who do better – and that is people from my former line of work: professional fact-checkers. The trick is the…
(25 Jul 2025) Universities in Australia and New Zealand are uniting in a cross-sector initiative to negotiate open access publishing agreements with major academic publishers. Spearheaded by the Council of Australasian University Librarians (CAUL), Universities Australia, and Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara, the joint effort aims to secure more sustainable and transparent deals starting January…
(10 Jul 2025) Get Full Text Research (GetFTR), the cross industry collaboration designed to improve access to academic content, is pleased to announce two new integrations: Lean Library, the library services tool, and Scite, a next-generation citation index from Research Solutions, along with its AI-powered research assistant, Scite Assistant. These collaborations further GetFTR’s mission to…
(26 Jul 2025) About the job: This is a full-time role for a Program Manager Acquisitions, Payments, and Logistics at the National Library of Australia, located in Canberra. This is a non-ongoing role until 6 July 2026 with the possibility of becoming ongoing. The role will manage a small team staff who…
(21 Jul 2025) Our House Library (Udo), the largest book-sharing service in Korea, surpassed 3 million cumulative books in five years after the service was launched. Udo is a non-face-to-face book-sharing service that delivers books entrusted by members to the home of applicants, with an annual volume of about 1.2 million copies. This is about 300,000…
(18 Jul 2025) Taichung is the second largest city in Taiwan. There, atop Taichung Central Park, SANAA is designing what the Tokyo office calls a “museumbrary” (museum + library). The Taichung Green Museumbrary brings two existing institutions—Taichung Public Library and Taichung Art Museum—under the same roof. Taichung Public Library has over 1 million paper and digital books in its collection. And…
(22 Jul 2025) Last year, Google introduced “AI Overviews,” a feature that displays an artificial intelligence-generated result summary at the top of many Google search pages. This feature is available to millions of U.S. Google users. Online publishers recently have attributed declining web traffic to these summaries replacing traditional search results, claiming that many users are relying on the summaries…