(1 Nov 2025) Charles Darwin University has designed an engaging OA card game called “Knowledge Keepers” to coincide with OA Week 2025. The game helps players navigate challenges around Open Access, teaching key concepts in a fun, interactive way while encouraging the sharing and protection of knowledge. It’s a great tool to raise awareness about…
(1 Nov 2025) Open Access Australasia plays a leading role in coordinating and amplifying Open Access Week activities across Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific region. Each year, the organization: Facilitates Regional Campaigns: Organizes and promotes a range of events, webinars, and discussions that spotlight open access initiatives, policy developments, and success stories from universities, libraries, researchers,…
(Nov 2025) As libraries shift their budgets toward investing in digital resources and content, employees must also streamline work processes to accommodate thousands, if not millions, of titles. Missing or substandard metadata can hinder discoverability, impacting the library’s return of investment in these resources, not to mention the opportunity costs that result for our users. …
(5 Nov 2025) Recently, ABC News reported that a Murdoch University student was taking legal action over what he claims are false allegations of unauthorized AI use in an assignment. In subsequent weeks, another report from the same outlet revealed that several Australian universities had been using AI to detect AI in student work, sparking debate over…
(28 Oct 2025) Wolters Kluwer Health today announced the launch of new AI features in Ovid® Synthesis to further support nursing and quality improvement leaders, practitioners and researchers in elevating the quality, speed, and impact of their improvement work. Created with feedback from customers and industry experts and now available as an optional add-on to…
(5 Nov 2025) A new IEEE global survey forecasts widespread consumer adoption of agentic AI by 2026, as the technology evolves into a mainstream Smart Assistant for everyday tasks. Respondents identified personal scheduling, data privacy management, health monitoring, and automated errands among the most common consumer uses expected to reach mass or near-mass levels next year. The…
(22 Oct 2025) New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested. The intensive international study of unprecedented scope and…
(30 Oct 2025) The post by Masud Khokhar, chief digital and information officer at the University of Leeds, highlights the challenges and transformations libraries face in adapting from traditional structured knowledge systems to the data-driven, algorithmic economy shaped by unstructured data and AI technologies like Generative AI. Libraries have been slow to adopt data science…
(29 Oct 2025) ACRL announces the publication of “Library Publishing: How to Launch, Enhance, and Sustain Your Program” edited by Jonathan Grunert, offering perspectives from diverse publishing programs, processes, and challenges that can help you scale content to meet your campus’s needs. Shifting landscapes of academic publishing, open access initiatives, transformative agreements, and questionable scholarly…
(4 Nov 2025) Oxford University Press (OUP) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Karger Publishers. The transaction is expected to complete in December. Following closing, this acquisition will see OUP welcome Karger to its wider organisation, bringing together a shared commitment to quality and scholarly integrity, and extending the reach and impact of Karger’s…