(13 Nov 2024) Choice has a mission to help collection development librarians in higher education choose the best titles for their collections. Students and library vendors are pushing AI adoption in higher education, but there are very few resources that help librarians and scholars separate the wheat from the chaff. In this blog post, key…
(4 Sep 2024) Digital Science today announces the launch of Papers Pro, an AI-enhanced premium version of its acclaimed reference manager, Papers. As part of the ReadCube suite of literature solutions, Papers Pro is designed to make researchers and students more productive in their daily tasks by integrating cutting-edge AI tools to transform how they discover,…
(28 June 2024) Cassie Richards describes her secondment with the Digital Collection Services team at Alexander Turnbull Library, focusing on digital archiving. She highlights the fragility of born-digital materials, the use of write-blockers and checksums, and the importance of programs like DROID. Her experience underscores the necessity of professional digital preservation for both institutional and…
(27 June 2024) Clarivate Plc released the 2024 Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR™), ranking high-quality journals globally. Key updates include unified subject category rankings, integration of Emerging sources citation index journals, and new metrics for over 21,800 journals. This enhances understanding of journal performance and supports research integrity. Find out more here.
(1 May 2024) The library technology industry had a quiet year in 2023. But in the absence of major business moves and acquisitions, companies set their sights on executing strategies to strengthen their market position. Previous cycles of business consolidation have yielded a layered landscape with distinct levels of competition. At the top, a…
(27 Mar 2024) ChatGPT and many other LLMs suffer from a big limitation: though they spool out endless streams of information, they don’t give their citations. Given the possibility of hallucinations, i.e., information that LLMs “make up,” being able to check a LLM’s sources is not only useful—it’s vital. Doing so is also a good exercise…
(20 Mar 2024) AI’s ability to quickly generate article summaries from a single question is always fascinating. The paragraphs are often well structured, and many do include real sources. But how accurate is the generated content? Do the sources support their statements? Can this summary be treated as literature review? In this post, Aster Zhao of The…
(7 Mar 2024) Form Ithaka S+R: As part of our Making AI Generative for Higher Education project, conducted in partnership with 19 colleges and universities, Ithaka S+R has been closely tracking the GAI product landscape through a unique Product Tracking Tool. The Product Tracker includes a basic description of GAI tools marketed towards postsecondary faculty or…
(3 Jan 2024) In the year since ChatGPT brought AI mainstream, the technology landscape has exploded with apps and bots that do more than mimic human intelligence and hallucinate electric sheep. Gary Price is a leader in advocating for better AI tools for librarians, researchers, and students (check out his presentations at Charleston and CNI this fall)—so I asked him, what are his…
New tools show promise, but technical and legal barriers may hinder widespread use (21 Nov 2023) In today’s world, where scientific research is rapidly growing, new AI tools like Elicit or Scim are being developed to help researchers sort through and understand large numbers of academic papers. However, these tools are not perfect yet.…