(16 Mar 2023) Perbadanan Kota Buku (PKB), the country’s largest digital book platform provider, will collaborate with other e-book platforms in the Asian region soon to diversify quality reading resources for the community, says its chief executive officer Adibah Omar. She said for a start, the entity under the Ministry of Education (MOE), forged a…
(26 Mar 2023) The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has released a new version of the Digital Preservation Policy Toolkit to coincide with its Relaunch Roadshow in Australasia. Now freely available for anyone within the digital preservation community to use and designed for organizations of any type, the Digital Preservation Policy Toolkit guides users from initial…
(1 Mar 2023) Research, and how it is conducted, is ever-changing and requires those that are tasked in its support to also keep up-to-date in Research Data Management, Open Access and Open Science in general. OpenAIRE’s train-the-trainer bootcamps aim at empowering trainers with the knowledge and the know-hows of Open Science so they can pass it…
By Ruth A. Pagell* (19 Mar 2023) In order to pay my way into the Internet Librarian conference that I described in RR 54, I agreed to write an article about the conference for the Online Searcher section of the Computers In Libraries magazine. Until 2023, Online Searcher had been a stand-alone publication itself, with…
(23 Mar 2023) AI tools can help us create content, learn about the world and (perhaps) eliminate the more mundane tasks in life – but they aren’t perfect. They’ve been shown to hallucinate information, use other people’s work without consent, and embed social conventions, including apologies, to gain users’ trust. For example, certain AI chatbots,…
A federal judge’s ruling for book publishers delivered a swift verdict that has significant implications for librarians, writers and limits of digital libraries. (27 Mar 2023) On Friday, a federal judge in New York ruled that the Internet Archive violated U.S. copyright law when it digitized countless physical books from four major book publishers…
(24 Mar 2023) With the impending maternity leave of two National Office staff members, CAUL is recruiting for the roles of Director, Strategy & Analytics and Engagement & Administration Officer. If you are inspired to work broadly across the sector with a highly collaborative team and enjoy roles that offer variety and flexibility in a fast paced environment, consider bringing your enthusiasm and…
(20 Mar 2023) Mega-journals, those that publish large numbers of articles per year, are growing rapidly across science and especially in biomedicine. Although 11 Scopus-indexed journals published more than 2,000 biomedical full papers (articles or reviews) in 2015 and accounted for 6% of that year’s literature, in 2022 there were 55 journals publishing more than…
(21 Mar 2023) Nineteen journals from the open-access publisher Hindawi were removed from Clarivate’s Web of Science Monday when the indexer refreshed its Master Journal List. The delistings follow a disclosure by Wiley, which bought Hindawi in 2021, that the company suspended publishing special issues for three months because of “compromised articles.” That lost the…
(20 Mar 2023) Arron Tay shared his speculation on the possible impact of LLMs on academic libraries. “I’m going to focus on one specific area I have some expertise in, the implications of large language models (LLMs) on information retrieval and Q&A (Question and answer tasks) where LLMs are used in search engines to…