(4 Apr 2025) China is perhaps the world’s new science superpower in terms of gross spending on research and development, a new Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report reveals. Meanwhile, research is under enormous pressure in two other research giants, America and Europe, says Sir Peter Gluckman, president of the International Science…
(1 Apr 2025) Open Journals Collective (OJC), an equitable, sustainable, community-led alternative to the big deals and transformative agreements offered by corporate academic publishers is recently launched. The OJC is a collective of libraries and university-based publishers working to change the way academic research is supported and disseminated. Drawing on more than a decade…
(6 Apr 2025) A Wellington Library is trialling a new way of cataloguing its mātauranga Māori books, organising them by atua (deity) rather than by the Dewey Decimal system. Bridget Jennings is the Senior Cataloguing Specialist at Wellington City Libraries, she said they wanted to create a structure for the library’s collections based on how…
(24 Mar 2025) Tanaka Ryonosuke of the Acquisitions and Bibliography Department, National Diet Library, introduces the transition of the Japanese National Bibliography from paper-based formats to digital data, now known as the Japanese National Bibliographic Data in this article. It began with “Nohon Geppo” in 1948 and evolved to digital formats with JAPAN/MARC in…
(2 Apr 2025) In this interview, Charlotte Giles discusses the Maldives Government Web Archive — how it was created, what it preserves, and why it is a significant addition to the Library’s Asian Division. She shares examples of how the archive captures the unique perspective of an island nation and explains why collecting materials from…
(2 Apr 2025) Several months ago, HSEO colleagues contacted the University Archives for help ensuring that important information about HKUST’s response to and handling of the recent pandemic doesn’t just vanish into the digital ether. We’re excited to share highlights from our recent project to archive HKUST’s COVID-19 resources. It has been a complex digital…
(7 Apr 2025) Cengage Group has released new data from its ongoing “AI in Education” research series, highlighting increased optimism and adoption of generative AI (GenAI) across both higher education (HED) and K12 settings in the United States. The findings reflect responses from over 3,000 HED students and instructors and more than 1,000 K12 teachers and administrators.…
(9 Apr 2025) Unbound Medicine®, a leader in healthcare knowledge management for 25 years, is excited to announce the full availability of Assist™ on the Nursing Central platform. Powered by Unbound Intelligence™ (UBI), this capability combines AI with human expertise to transform the creation of educational and learning materials, addressing the needs of both faculty and…
(9 Apr 2025) Clarivate announced the expansion of its Academic AI Platform, helping institutions harness agentic AI to accelerate productivity, save time for researchers, students and staff, and engage users in the digital environments they already use. Beginning in April 2025, Clarivate will introduce AI Agents to support key academic workflows. As part of this…
(7 Apr 2025) Springer Nature has introduced a new AI-based tool to detect irrelevant references in submitted manuscripts, expanding its suite of in-house research integrity technologies. The tool is being deployed by the publisher’s Research Integrity Group (RIG) across nearly all Springer Nature journals and books. It automatically analyzes the relevance of cited references in submissions…