(21 Nov 2023) The New York Public Library announced today its Best Books of 2023, a curated list of 240 recommended titles published this year for children, teens, and adults. For nearly a century NYPL’s expert librarians have been providing New Yorkers with their year-end recommendations, celebrating books that inspire a love of reading. This…
(29 Nov 2023) Nominations for the ALIA Library Design awards are open. Whether it’s a refurbishment or new build, make a feature of your library’s design and celebrate excellence in library infrastructure. Nominate before 8 March 2024: https://buff.ly/3QXEkFn
(14 Nov 2023) Article-processing charges levied by publishers on authors have become an integral — and sometimes unpopular — part of the open-access revolution. Other options are being explored. As the open-access landscape evolves, various publishing and payment models are emerging in addition to standard APCs, ranging from ones tailored to small communities of…
(24 Nov 2023) This blog post draws insights from a recent installment of Highwire’s Best Practice Webinar Series, featuring a distinguished panel of experts: Fiona Hutton, Head of Publishing at eLife Sciences, Monica Granados from PREreview; and Boris Barbour from PubPeer. The webinar delved into the future of peer review by exploring community and third-party…
(27 Nov 2023) Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS), a trusted partner providing cloud-based workflow solutions to accelerate research for R&D-driven organizations, today announced their acquisition of scite, an award-winning search and discovery platform that leverages AI to increase the discoverability and evaluation of research. The acquisition of scite further enhances Research Solutions’ product offerings and provides…
(15 Nov 2023) Interactions and collaborations between the Chinese research community and international scholarly publishers are as numerous and wide-ranging as at any point in past 20 years, during which China has become the world’s top producer of research papers. Yet in some ways the perception gap between these two groups is widening. Some of our…
New tools show promise, but technical and legal barriers may hinder widespread use (21 Nov 2023) In today’s world, where scientific research is rapidly growing, new AI tools like Elicit or Scim are being developed to help researchers sort through and understand large numbers of academic papers. However, these tools are not perfect yet.…
By Ruth A Pagell * (27 Nov 2023) Question: Do regional rankings address some of the concerns about the current world rankings? It is fashionable to criticize the rankings (Brink). My last set of articles, Ruth’s Ranking 56 parts 1 and 2 and RR 57, focused on changes in metrics and weightings from our…
(21 Nov 2023) The National Library Board (NLB) is poised to revolutionize the public’s interaction with literature by launching multiple artificial intelligence (AI) services, including a chatbot, an AI image generation service, and a real-time visualization system. Read more here.
(23 Nov 2023) Sri Lanka’s national archives and libraries will go online with digitalisation, Chairman of the National Library and Documentation Services Board Professor Nanda Dharmaratna said. “We are now in the digital age, where the library system has a major role to play. We selected 25 libraries from the 25 districts and digitalised…