(8 Nov 2022) The publishing giant Elsevier is withdrawing around 500 fake conference papers from one of its materials science journals, Retraction Watch reports. Many of the manuscripts published in Materials Today: Proceedings are off-topic, incomprehensible to the point of nonsense or seem to have been written by software. They all seem to have come from conferences that never happened,…
(10 Nov 2022) Beset by bugs, shorn of around half of its staff and with an idiosyncratic new owner who is changing the rules on a whim, Twitter is turning from a must-use social-media platform into one that many people, including scientists, are becoming wary of. A raft of other social-networking platforms are cropping up in its…
(31 Oct 2022) The first global knowledge platform dedicated to climate and health – climahealth.info – was launched today by the Joint Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO), with support from the Wellcome Trust. It is in response to growing calls for actionable information to protect people from the…
(27 Oct 2022) Americans have long been much more likely to trust information from local and national news organizations than information on social media sites. This remains the case today, except among the youngest adults. Adults under 30 are now almost as likely to trust information from social media sites as they are to trust…
(4 Nov 2022) Librarians around Japan are raising concerns their independence may be in jeopardy after the education ministry asked them to stock more books about North Korea’s abductions of Japanese nationals. Following the Cabinet Secretariat’s instructions, the education ministry sent a document to public and school libraries, asking them to help maintain public attention…
(2 Nov 2022) Two international projects, OPERAS-PLUS project and the Book Analytics Dashboard project, commit to coordinate on delivering transparent, trusted, and community-controlled analytics tools and services to support the transition to open access for scholarly books. The diversity of players in scholarly book publishing needs to be protected and ensuring that there are high quality and…
(1 Nov 2022) Abstract: Now that artificial intelligence (AI) tools are being widely used across academic publishing, how can we make informed assessments of these utilities? There is a need for a set of skills for evaluating new tools and measuring existing ones, which should enable anyone commissioning or managing AI utilities to understand what…
(3 Nov 2022) CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society that specializes in scientific information solutions, launched CAS Insights™, a new content hub at the intersection of science, technology, and innovation. Offering business and research leaders actionable perspectives on the latest developments across science and technology, CAS Insights draws on the human-curated data collection and…
(7 Nov 2022) The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and Taylor & Francis have signed a new transformative agreement which combines read access to journals with open access (OA) publication of research from participating institutions. Under the three-year partnership, beginning January 2023, researchers from participating institutions in Australia and New Zealand can choose…
(3 Nov 2022) The Buddhist Institute produces and disseminates scholarly works on the religion for which it is named and for the past century it has been a repository of knowledge for the fields of culture, religion, literature, language, traditions and customs in Cambodia.Sor Sokny has worked at the Buddhist Institute for 19 years and…