(4 Aug 2025) Librarians are all looking for ways to prepare for how generative artificial intelligence (GAI) might change our jobs and our users’ research habits. However, the number of new GAI tools can be overwhelming. Happily, ITHAKA, the nonprofit behind JSTOR, has put together a GAI “Product Tracker.” It lists tools that are either widely used…
Researchers uncover strategies used by academicians to publish fraudulent research (5 Aug 2025) An organized underground network of individuals and groups is enabling fraudulent research and increasingly undermining the integrity of science, an alarming new study warns. Researchers from Northwestern University in the US conducted a large-scale data analysis of scientific literature and found that sophisticated global networks…
(6 Aug 2025) The Royal Society has agreed plans that would make its journals fully open access in 2026 by adopting the ‘Subscribe to Open’ model. Under plans agreed in July 2025, libraries subscribed to Royal Society journals will now be asked to support Subscribe to Open in 2026 through their subscriptions. If sufficient libraries…
(6 Aug 2025) The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released the results of a 2024 survey on artificial intelligence in web-scale library discovery services. The report, titled ‘Generative Artificial Intelligence and the NISO Open Discovery Initiative,’ was developed by the NISO Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) Standing Committee. This publication follows the 2020 update of the ODI’s Recommended…
(7 Aug 2025) Lo Chandy, a librarian in Pursat province’s floating villages, is on a mission with NGO Sipar Cambodia to bring books to children who have never had access to a real library. Chandy, 24, who is also the library educator, said the first library in these Bakan district villages has created an interest…
(11 Aug 2025) Sophie White, Content Marketing and Program Manager and Jenay Robert, Senior Researcher at EDUCAUSE talk with Leo S. Lo, Jeanne Beatrix Law, and Anissa Vega about practical strategies for guiding student and faculty AI use and literacy. Takeaways from this episode: Providing multiple entry points for faculty to learn about and…
(Jul 2025) The Australian Research Council (ARC) has announced important updates on its approach to research evaluation and the launch of its Persistent Identifier (PID) Action Plan. The ARC welcomes feedback from the research community and stakeholders to help shape and refine these important initiatives. Highlights include: The ARC’s Research Insights Capability will deepen…
(29 Jul 2025) Frontiers Research Integrity Auditing team has uncovered a network of authors and editors who conducted peer review with undisclosed conflicts of interest and who have engaged in citation manipulation. The unethical actions of this network have been confirmed in 122 articles published in Frontiers, across 5 journals, and has led to their…
(1 Aug 2025) India’s national university ranking will start penalizing institutions if a sizeable number of papers published by their researchers are retracted — a first for an institutional ranking system. The move is an attempt by the government to address the country’s growing number of retractions due to misconduct. Many retractions correct honest mistakes in…
(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. …