(11 Apr 2024) At last month’s CHORUS Forum: 12 Best Practices for Research Data Sharing speakers addressed the Joint Statement on Research Data Sharing by STM, DataCite and Crossref. Here is the summary of all presentations, recording of the forum.
(22 Apr 2024) Edith Cowan University (ECU) is a young and progressive university with a strong reputation for excellence in student satisfaction, teaching, high-quality research, and state-of-the-art facilities. Our dedicated staff develop and impart knowledge that transforms the lives of people in communities around the world. ECU’s campus libraries play a crucial role in supporting,…
(27 Mar 2024) ChatGPT and many other LLMs suffer from a big limitation: though they spool out endless streams of information, they don’t give their citations. Given the possibility of hallucinations, i.e., information that LLMs “make up,” being able to check a LLM’s sources is not only useful—it’s vital. Doing so is also a good exercise…
(17 Apr 2024) An ‘at a glance’ approach to publication details, such as journal acceptance rates and the number of peer reviewers, would promote transparency, scientists say. A team at the Public Knowledge Project, a non-profit organization run by Willinsky and his colleagues at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, has been investigating how…
(20 Mar 2024) A surge in tools that generate text is allowing research papers to be summarized for a broad audience, and in any language. But scientists caution that major challenges remain. Mass-produced lay summaries could yield a trove of benefits. Beyond helping scientists to speed-read the literature, the synopses can be disseminated to…
(16 Apr 2024) When and how should text-generating artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as ChatGPT help write research papers? In the coming months, 4000 researchers from a variety of disciplines and countries will weigh in on guidelines that could be adopted widely across academic publishing, which has been grappling with chatbots and other AI issues for the…
(17 Apr 2024) From Library of Congress announcement: The South Asian Digital Collection (SADC) is the new online home for the Library’s digitized books, serials, and manuscripts related to the histories and cultures of South Asian countries (i.e., Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). The creation of SADC will provide easy access to…
(16 Apr 2024) The research information landscape requires fundamental change. The signatories of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information commit to taking a lead in transforming the way research information is used and produced. Openness of information about the conduct and communication of research must be the new norm. Too often, decision making in…
(16 Apr 2024) The University Library has two sections –Research and Collections and Engagement and Experience. Research and Collections provides a range of library services including the acquisition, management, and discovery of digital and physical resources and development and delivery of research publication and data management services. As the appointee you will under limited direction,…
(31 Mar 2024) Efforts are underway to digitize Türkiye’s National Library’s vast collection, totaling 20 million pages of resources, with plans to extend accessibility beyond Ankara, announced Taner Beyoğlu, general director of Libraries and Publications at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The move aims to make the library’s extensive resources accessible to individuals…