(11 Nov 2026) An Indian court has ordered an investigation into allegations that a public library in the southern state of Tamil Nadu bought hundreds of books suspected of being generated using AI. The controversy began after Tamil novelist Perumal Murugan raised concerns about books containing false information and questionable authorship at a newly opened…
(10 Nov 2026) ISSI (International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics) and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham will host the first official ISSI School on Scientometrics, from 8 to 12 March 2027 at Amrita’s Faridabad campus in NCR Delhi, India. This five-day, hands-on school is open to participants worldwide, with a particular focus on the Global South. It…
(4 Nov 2026) Anthropic, an AI safety and research company that built Claude, is launching 10 courses on Coursera that are available for free to learners around the world. With tailored courses for developers, small business owners, creators, and teachers, learners from several fields can build technical skills to better use Anthropic’s AI products and…
(Oct 2026) SPARC has collaborated with accounting faculty at the University of Sydney to produce a set of independent analyses that reveal the scale of public subsidy to commercial publishers and quantify the billions of dollars that are removed from the research ecosystem as a result. These analyses provide important context to questions at the heart…
(28 Oct 2026) The scholarly publishing system is under intense pressure. Researchers face increasing demands to publish, peer review is strained and often invisible, and recognition for scholarly contributions beyond traditional articles remains limited. Moreover, with the rapid growth in the use of AI and growing concerns about research integrity, it is increasingly challenging to…
(1 Nov 2026) The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and Open Access Australasia (OAA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen trusted, equitable and sustainable open access journal publishing across Australasia. The partnership reflects a shared commitment to advancing an open and equitable scholarly communication ecosystem and will focus on increasing the…
(29 Oct 2026) Cashmere, a US-based AI content licensing platform, and Sunmedia Co., Ltd., a Japanese content solutions company with more than 60 years of experience in scholarly information and licensing services, today announced a strategic partnership to bring premium licensed content to Japan’s rapidly growing enterprise AI market. The partnership combines Cashmere’s content…
A review committee used Santiago Schnell’s available chat logs to help determine that he overused artificial intelligence to help write published articles and wasn’t forthcoming about it. (28 Oct 2026) The controversy surrounding Schnell’s AI use started in August when Semafor published an investigation showing that the AI detector Pangram flagged an editorial he…
(2 Nov 2026) “Optimization” has become something of the watchword of this decade. From health influencers issuing protocols to get the most out of your inhalations to YouTube videos made for algorithmic performance rather than the people viewing them, optimization has left the confines of business schools and become the common sense of the age. This…
(29 Oct 2026) “Machine learning gives us more flexibility in evaluating the relationship between records. Rather than requiring a certain amount of metadata to line up, the model can consider different signals together to determine whether two records are likely to describe the same resource. The ISBN, when present, is one particularly useful signal because…