(17 Dec 2025) This blog post outlines strategies for detecting AI-generated hallucinations, particularly fabricated citations, using a librarian’s verification approach including three layers: Existence Check: Search exact titles, journals, and authors; about 40% of AI citations vanish here. Content Check: Confirm if real sources match claimed findings, as AI may invert conclusions. Context Check: Evaluate…
(10 Dec 2025) At most scientific publications, papers co-authored by artificial intelligence (AI) are not welcome. At a new open platform called aiXiv, they are embraced. The platform goes all in on AI: It accepts both AI- and human-authored work, uses built-in AI reviewers for baseline quality screening, and guides authors through revisions based on the chatbots’…
(1 Dec 2025) AI search tools like Elicit, Consensus, and Scite.ai have spent years racing to build centralised indexes of academic content— first by indexing the open content that is available and then trying to get publisher partnerships. But unlike their predecessors of the 2010s – the Web Scale Discovery systems (now called “Discovery layers” or “Discovery Services”) like Summon, Ebsco Discovery Service, Primo,…
(8 Dec 2025) AI task management tools represent a rapidly growing class of productivity software. They promise to help us organize our lives, prioritize our days, and even predict how long it might take to finish that ever-important task that we’ve been avoiding. But in practice, they are part-experiment, part-assistant, and part-mirror, showing us how…
(1 Dec 2025) In March 2024, Ithaka S+R released a tracker of generative AI products for higher education, along with an issue brief detailing our observations on the generative AI product landscape for postsecondary research, teaching, and learning activities. Since then, the list of products on the tracker has more than doubled in length and become more cumbersome for…
(27 Nov 2025) A new Trump administration plan to expand the use of artificial intelligence in US science could greatly boost research productivity. But according to analysts, it also highlights a need for more global cooperation in AI development. The Genesis Mission announced by the White House on November 24 aims to turn much of…
(Nov 2025) As libraries shift their budgets toward investing in digital resources and content, employees must also streamline work processes to accommodate thousands, if not millions, of titles. Missing or substandard metadata can hinder discoverability, impacting the library’s return of investment in these resources, not to mention the opportunity costs that result for our users. …
(5 Nov 2025) Recently, ABC News reported that a Murdoch University student was taking legal action over what he claims are false allegations of unauthorized AI use in an assignment. In subsequent weeks, another report from the same outlet revealed that several Australian universities had been using AI to detect AI in student work, sparking debate over…
(5 Nov 2025) A new IEEE global survey forecasts widespread consumer adoption of agentic AI by 2026, as the technology evolves into a mainstream Smart Assistant for everyday tasks. Respondents identified personal scheduling, data privacy management, health monitoring, and automated errands among the most common consumer uses expected to reach mass or near-mass levels next year. The…
(22 Oct 2025) New research coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants – already a daily information gateway for millions of people – routinely misrepresent news content no matter which language, territory, or AI platform is tested. The intensive international study of unprecedented scope and…