(28 Jul 2023) The Electronic Frontier Foundation will award Alexandra Elbakyan, founder of the ‘pirate’ library Sci-Hub, for her efforts to provide access to scientific knowledge. According to EFF, Elbakyan’s site is a vital resource for millions of students and researchers. Some medical professionals have even argued that the site helped to save lives. …
(July 2023) The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in research is growing rapidly, with new applications being developed all the time. However, there are also some potential ethical challenges associated with the use of AI in research. For example, it is important to ensure that AI tools are not used to generate fraudulent or misleading research. It…
(18 Jul 2023) “Data scientists love good, structured data. Information people know where to get that data.” That’s how an information professional at a large pharmaceutical company described what drives the collaboration between info pros and data scientists at his organization. As he noted, “the one thing our researchers and data scientists don’t have is…
(14 Jul 2023) On 23 June, NIH banned the use of online generative AI tools like ChatGPT “for analyzing and formulating peer-review critiques”—likely spurred in part by a letter from Siegle, who is at the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues. After the conference they warned the agency that allowing ChatGPT to write grant reviews is “a…
(20 Jun 2023) CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) is delighted to release the concluding report from Associate Director Emerita Joan Lippincott’s extensive study of the recent past, present and future of a selected set of programs at CNI member institutions addressing digital scholarship (DS), data-intensive, and computation research and interconnections among them. The report can be…
(5 Jul 2023) The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of the Peer Review Terminology Standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.106-2023), which will support open research by simplifying the communication of peer review roles and practices and fostering greater transparency in the peer review process. Peer review is universally acknowledged as critical to the research…
(27 Jun 2023) Funder and publisher mandates, coupled with a growing emphasis on open science and reproducibility, mean that researchers are increasingly depositing data alongside their publications. Other scientists can use those data to drive new research. But not every journal requires that authors make their data sets available, and some authors decline to do…
(20 Jun 2023) Since its introduction nearly a decade ago, impact assessment for universities has been adopted in numerous locations around the world. With two recent announcements from international governmental bodies around the role of impact in future exercises – and at least another expected – we can observe several trends emerging. Read more…
(27 Jun 2023) LPC is delighted to announce the publication of Version 2.0 of An Ethical Framework for Library Publishing. A dedicated task force worked for two years to draft this update to the Library Publishing Coalition’s 2018 Framework. The result is a remarkably different document, structured to orient library publishers to how they might proceed…
For the second year running, China sees the largest increase in research output among top-ten countries. The Nature Index Annual Tables reveal the institutions that have helped China surpass the United States as the leading country in the natural sciences. (15 Jun 2023) The 2023 Nature Index Annual Tables examine the institutions and countries…