(14 Feb 2025) Ex Libris™ has introduced Alma Specto, an AI-driven platform designed to enhance the management, discovery, and preservation of digital collections. This innovative tool aims to address the challenges faced by libraries in connecting their digital resources to users, such as time-consuming metadata creation and fragmented management tools. Alma Specto leverages artificial intelligence to…
(19 Feb 2025) The summer of 2023 was not a good time for AI detectors. OpenAI famously recalled its AI detector, saying it wasn’t effective. A study by the Washington Post found serious gaps in the efficacy of AI detection systems, and a similar study by academic researchers found similar issues. Things weren’t looking significantly better…
(26 Feb 2025) Project MUSE is delighted to announce a major achievement in its quest to advance open access. Thanks to the unwavering support of libraries and institutions worldwide, MUSE’s Subscribe to Open (S2O) initiative has reached its sustainability goal for 2025. This remarkable accomplishment will make more than 100 journals’ 2025 volumes, from 27 publishers,…
(26 Feb 2025) As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly integrated into scholarly research and knowledge dissemination, publishers face a critical challenge: how to best integrate their content into this new ecosystem. Currently, an increasing number of publishers are collaborating with AI system suppliers to license their content for large language model training, small model…
(18 Feb 2025) IOI (Invest in Open Infrastructure) team has been conducting research aimed at developing an understanding of the current needs and dependencies in the research software ecosystem and uncovering future opportunities to advance its sustainability and resilience. This research, sponsored by the Sloan Foundation, aimed at understanding factors that might help the research…
(27 Feb 2025) The “education technology” company Chegg filed a lawsuit against Google claiming that Google is breaching antitrust laws with its AI summary feature. According to the lawsuit, Google is using its monopoly position on search to scrape content from various sites and present the information in AI summaries on Google result pages. A…
(27 Feb 2025) Are you involved in an interesting project, library activity, new service, or application of technology that contributes locally, regionally or globally to our societal future? Would you like to showcase your work and network with other like-minded individuals in Astana, Kazakhstan, in August 2025? IFLA is excited to announce that the call…
(14 Feb 2025) Several higher education projects and hundreds of students face uncertainty following the suspension of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funding as part of US President Donald Trump’s executive order last month, which put a 90-day freeze on all development aid activities worldwide. USAID-funded higher education projects in South Asia…
(24 Feb 2025) The Annual Meeting and Conference of the Southeast Asia Library Group (SEALG) will take place at the University of Passau, Germany, on 27-28 June 2025. Prof. Dr. Martina Padmanabhan, Chair of Critical Development Studies – Southeast Asia will host the meeting. In preparation of the Annual Meeting – which will take place…
(20 Feb 2025) Shady companies have long given unscrupulous scientists the opportunity to buy authorship of papers—a form of academic fraud. But according to a draft paper posted online today and scheduled to appear in the International Journal for Educational Integrity, these outfits have now diversified into selling intellectual property rights, too. Over the past 2 years, these…