(6 Aug 2024) Robert Cawston, Director of Digital and Service Transformation, introduces a new AI Statement for the National Library of Scotland. “Our AI statement was created as a guide to the Llbrary’s decision-making on how we employ AI tools, communicate about our use of AI, collect AI-generated material, and allow our data to be…
(21 Aug 2024) OCLC is unlocking the power of the Dewey Decimal Classification system to build an increasingly robust linked data infrastructure by creating uniform resource identifiers (URIs) for Dewey numbers. As the foundation for “concept” entities, this Dewey linked data provides subject classifications to Works entities in WorldCat Entities, creating a layer of new relationships for knowledge…
(12 Aug 2024) This year marks the 20th anniversary of awareness regarding image manipulation in biomedical literature, highlighting significant changes and ongoing challenges in the field by Mike Rossner. Twenty years ago, people were either unaware of the problem of image manipulation in the biomedical literature, or they thought the problem was so minor…
(8 Aug 2024) René Aquarius, a researcher at Radboud University Medical Center, Netherlands, shared her experience on being an reviewer for MDPI journals. “Mid November 2023 I received a request to peer-review a manuscript for a special issue on subarachnoid hemorrhage for the Journal of Clinical Medicine, published by MDPI. This blog post summarizes that…
(20 Aug 2024) About the role: As the successful candidate, you will develop and deliver comprehensive training programs to enhance skills and knowledge in targeted library and records management systems and services. This role involves creating a diverse range of training materials with a user-centred approach, including the design and editing of interactive multimedia. …
(21 Aug 2024) Japanese universities are at a critical juncture as the rapid fall in the number of children nationwide has sparked discussions on the need for consolidation, downsizing, or potential closures. A task force of the Central Council for Education, which advises the education minister, is currently deliberating the future of universities in response…
(9 Jul 2024) Dr Julia Colleen Miller, senior data manager for the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA), shares her personal experience of the managing digitalizing projects including the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC). Find out more here.
(14 Aug 2024) Turnitin announced they were ending private plans for PlagScan, a plagiarism detection service they acquired in 2021. With that imminent closure, individuals can only access Turnitin’s services through iThenticate, which costs $125 per search, or a third-party partner like Scribbr. However, Christian Moriarty, an ethics and law professor at St. Petersburg College, asked…
(5 Aug 2024) OpenAI has already built and tested a tool to detect whether any written content has been created using ChatGPT. But the Wall Street Journal reports that the company is holding back the tool from public release because of several concerns. The tool adds a pattern to how the large language model (LLM) writes its…
(6 Aug 2024) Stanford University is one example of a university that chose to integrate ORCID into its centralized identity management system, which it did to comply with US research security directives issued by the National Security Presidential Memorandum-33, better known as NSPM-33. Stanford University offers an ideal case study for similar research institutions that already…