AI – Access

The Reproducibility and interpretability of academic Ai search engines like Primo Research Assistant, Web of Science Research Assistant, Scopus Ai and more

AI, Research SupportApril 15, 2025

(14 Apr 2025) From Aaron Tay’s Musings about librarianship: “I recently compared three academic AI search tools: Primo Research Assistant, Web of Science Research Assistant, and Scopus AI for a review article. Why these three? Mainly because they are add-ons to extremely well-established academic search engines or databases: Primo: Owned by Exlibris (a Clarivate company), Primo is one of…

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Japan Academic Association for Copyright Clearance and RightsDirect Japan announce the availability of AI re-use rights for digital copyright license

AI, CopyrightApril 15, 2025

(9 Apr 2025) The Japan Academic Association for Copyright Clearance (JAC), in collaboration with RightsDirect Japan, a subsidiary of CCC (Copyright Clearance Center), today announced the availability of artificial intelligence (AI) re-use rights within the Digital Copyright License (DCL), an enterprise-wide content licensing solution offering rights from millions of works to businesses. The JAC DCL enables companies with headquarters in Japan to…

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Cengage Group data shows rising GenAI adoption in K12 and higher education despite divergent concerns

AIApril 14, 2025

(7 Apr 2025) Cengage Group has released new data from its ongoing “AI in Education” research series, highlighting increased optimism and adoption of generative AI (GenAI) across both higher education (HED) and K12 settings in the United States. The findings reflect responses from over 3,000 HED students and instructors and more than 1,000 K12 teachers and administrators.…

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Research tools: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence introduces Ai2 Paper Finder

AI, ToolsMarch 30, 2025

(26 Mar 2025) From Ai2: Today we release Ai2 Paper Finder, an LLM-powered literature search system. We believe that AI-based literature search should follow the research and thought process that a human researcher would use when looking for relevant papers in their field. Ai2 Paper Finder is built on this philosophy, and it excels at…

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AI Ethics in higher education: How schools are proceeding

AI, EducationMarch 26, 2025

Higher education institutions are uniquely positioned to evaluate AI ethics and explore safeguards to promote responsible use at colleges and universities. (18 Mar 2025) When it comes to the ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence, colleges and universities are out in front. Many schools already look to AI to support teaching, learning, research, back-office functions…

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AI search summaries cannibalize academic publishers’ web traffic

AI, InternetMarch 24, 2025

(11 Mar 2025) Speaking at the Academic and Professional Publishing Conference, part of the London Book Fair, Oxford University Press (OUP) product strategy director John Campbell explained how the launch of Google’s AI-powered search summaries had led to a 19 per cent drop in click-through to academic reference services. Discussing what he called the advent…

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AI Search fails at citation, study finds

AI, InternetMarch 14, 2025

(13 Mar 2025) One of the recent trends in generative artificial intelligence has been AI search. Nearly every major AI company has launched some version of an AI search engine, often with lofty promises about what it can do. For example, OpenAI says their ChatGPT Search will give you, “fast, timely answers with links to…

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Wiley releases AI guidelines for authors

AI, PublishersMarch 14, 2025

(13 Mar 2025) Wiley released a set of guidelines on the responsible and effective use of artificial intelligence (AI) in authorship this week at the London Book Fair. In the new guidelines and accompanying FAQs, Wiley provides suggestions to authors on how to utilize AI tools in their manuscript preparation while preserving the author’s authentic voice…

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Protecting library websites from AI bot traffic

AI, InternetMarch 12, 2025

(26 Feb 2025) This month on Choice’s The Authority File podcast, Bill Mickey chats with Rosalyn Metz, Chief Technology Officer for Libraries and Museum at Emory University, about a frustrating new issue. At a 2024 Charleston Conference panel, Rosalyn shared a quick anecdote on how spikes in AI bot traffic on Emory library’s website have led to…

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Google is adding more AI Overviews and a new ‘AI Mode’ to Search

AI, InternetMarch 12, 2025

(6 Mar 2025) The AI-ification of Google Search continues to accelerate: the company announced on Wednesday that it will start showing AI Overviews for even more kinds of queries, and that users around the world, even those who are logged out of Google, will start seeing them too. There’s an even more ambitious AI search…

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