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Clarivate, the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Higher Education Press of China release annual joint report to identify 188 engineering fronts

PublishersDecember 27, 2022

(15 Dec 2022) Clarivate Plc, a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), and the Higher Education Press of China today released their sixth annual collaborative report – Engineering Fronts 2022. The report, which was launched at a joint forum in Beijing, has identified…

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Toolkit for demonstrating and measuring impact of primary sources in teaching and learning

LibrariesDecember 27, 2022

(9 Dec 2022) As part of ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative, a team from the University of Pittsburgh Library System addressed how special collections support teaching, learning, and research. This project developed a toolkit that allows measurement of impact of engagement with primary sources. The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) initially worked with University of California, Irvine (UCI)…

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Can AI write scholarly articles for us? An exploratory journey with ChatGPT

TechnologyDecember 27, 2022

(23 Dec 2022) In this article, Aster Zhao from HKUST Library shares her experiments with ChatGPT, the recently released AI chatbot which attracted over a million users in less than a month. She asked 4 questions: Can AI write scholarly articles Writing literature review Paraphrasing Grammar and typo checking See how ChatGPT responded and…

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New STM report provides insights into global OA landscape with a focus on China

Open AccessDecember 27, 2022

(14 Dec 2022) A new report released today provides insights into the complex and evolving global Open Access landscape — and with a particular focus on China. The report is a product of a collaboration between STM Association and the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) focused on the bilateral sharing of ideas and best…

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PubMed GPT: A Domain-specific large language model for biomedical text

TechnologyDecember 27, 2022

The Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM) and MosaicML announce the release of PubMed GPT, a purpose-built AI model trained to interpret biomedical language. (15 Dec 2022) Large language models (LLMs) offer amazing capabilities for general-purpose natural language generation, image generation, speech synthesis, and multi-modal combinations of these applications. But is there more…

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Large language models and a review on Q&A academic systems

Technology, ToolsDecember 14, 2022

(28 Nov 2022) In this blog post, Aaron Tay reviews a few Q&A academic systems including Elicit.org, Scispace, Consensus.app, Scite.ai and Galactica, and provides a piece of background information on large language models that drives the explosion of AI tools. The blog post is here.

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The ChatGPT chatbot is blowing people away with its writing skills. An expert explains why it’s so impressive

TechnologyDecember 14, 2022

(6 Dec 2022) We’ve all had some kind of interaction with a chatbot. It’s usually a little pop-up in the corner of a website, offering customer support – often clunky to navigate – and almost always frustratingly non-specific. But imagine a chatbot, enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI), that can not only expertly answer your questions,…

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City University is hiring University Librarian

JobsDecember 14, 2022

(13 Dec 2022) Applications and nominations are invited for: University Librarian [Ref. B/523/09] As a large administrative unit with about 90 staff members supporting the University’s academic enterprise, the Library endeavours to support and augment teaching, learning and research by providing a dynamic environment conducive to studying and offering seamless access to the diverse, up-to-date…

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Hong Kong Baptist University signs Read & Publish agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry

Asia PacificDecember 13, 2022

(7 Dec 2022) Hong Kong Baptist University has signed a groundbreaking Read & Publish licensing agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry. This means that authors from the university are now able to publish Open Access in Royal Society of Chemistry journals, for no additional fee, and also have access to read the full range…

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Are Philippine libraries becoming ‘endangered’? Discussions at the ‘Future of Libraries’ forum

Asia Pacific, Event, LibrariesDecember 13, 2022

(1 Dec 2022) This absence of a reading culture among Filipinos was challenged even more by the Covid pandemic. How have our libraries coped in the last three years? How have our librarians adjusted to widespread digitalization? What is the future of our libraries after the pandemic? These questions were all discussed at the roundtable…

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