(22 Sept 2025) Research suggests nearly half of all tasks in the information services sector could be transformed by AI. This isn’t a distant future scenario—it’s happening now. What can we do to shape the impact of AI on libraries and library workers? The free Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit will help you and your colleagues plan, develop…
(22 Sept 2025) Impact case studies have held significant weight in REF since its establishment in 2014, and the way research is undertaken and supported continues to be shaped by the impact agenda. So, although there are outstanding questions on what exactly the next iteration of REF will look like, there seems little doubt that impact case studies will remain a key component. Citation databases,…
(15 Sept 2025) A new global reviewer survey from IOP Publishing (IOPP) reveals a growing divide in attitudes among reviewers in the physical sciences regarding the use of generative AI in peer review. The study follows a similar survey conducted last year showing that while some researchers are beginning to embrace AI tools, others remain concerned…
(23 Sept 2025) If you wanted to get a paper published in Science from 2015 to 2020, your odds were 70% lower if you were in China than in the United States. But being at an elite institution anywhere in the world may have given you an edge. Those are two findings from a rare study of internal…
(27 Sept 2025) The attached article discusses the recent significant reduction in the availability of abstracts for scholarly articles from major publishers like Elsevier and Springer Nature on open academic metadata aggregators such as OpenAlex. Over recent years, AI-powered academic search tools have heavily relied on open abstracts for effective research discovery. However, since…
(24 Sept 2025) How are people actually using ChatGPT? Drawing on a dataset of more than 1 million conversations between users and ChatGPT, this report gives us a panoramic view into the sorts of prompts people put forward to generative AI. Much of the discussion around AI literacy has hinged on possible or presumed usages of AI in…
(22 Sept 2025) The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Co., Ltd. (CNPIEC) to establish a joint DOAJ China Open Access Journal Pre-evaluation Working Group. The initiative will provide Chinese journals with the opportunity to undergo pre-evaluation before applying to DOAJ. Through this process,…
(17 Sept 2025) A National Library Board (NLB) assistant director corruptly obtained bribes totalling S$140,000 from the directors of two different firms between 2018 and 2020. Adrian Chan Siew Leng, who was facing financial difficulties because of loans and his divorce, committed the offences in exchange for advancing the firms’ interests with NLB. On…
(15 Sept 2025) New students at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology must complete a police “anti-scam assessment,” and those who fail will be barred from entering the library. In a bid to protect students from rising online fraud, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has introduced a mandatory anti-scam…
(24 Aug 2025) From digitizing the nation’s printed and recorded heritage to translating works into different languages, the National Library of the Philippines (NLP) is looking toward a future that embraces artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies—all while staying grounded in its “race against time” to preserve books and documents invaluable to history. NLP assistant…