(16 Dec 2024) Google Scholar turned 20 last month and Nature wrote a piece with the title “Can Google Scholar survive the AI revolution?” and quoted as saying “Up until recently, Google Scholar was my default search,” says Aaron Tay, an academic librarian at Singapore Management University. It’s still top of his list, but “recently, I started…
(16 Sep 2024) From Aaron Tay’s Musings about librarianship blog: “Ex Libris surprised us by suddenly releasing Primo Research Assistant to production on September 9, 2024 (when the earlier timeline was 4Q 2024 with some believing it might even be delayed). Despite the fact that there are so many RAG (retrieval augmented generation) academic search systems today…
(20 Mar 2023) Arron Tay shared his speculation on the possible impact of LLMs on academic libraries. “I’m going to focus on one specific area I have some expertise in, the implications of large language models (LLMs) on information retrieval and Q&A (Question and answer tasks) where LLMs are used in search engines to…
(28 Nov 2022) In this blog post, Aaron Tay reviews a few Q&A academic systems including Elicit.org, Scispace, Consensus.app, Scite.ai and Galactica, and provides a piece of background information on large language models that drives the explosion of AI tools. The blog post is here.
(22 Aug 2022) In Aaron Tay‘s blog post, he shares: “My blog usually takes the view that most of our users do not start at the library homepage as a truism and since the beginning of the blog in 2009, I have covered tools that help users “get back” to library resources or at…
(14 Mar 2022) Thanks to evolving AI technology, the showcase of citation is no longer simply a solid number. Aaron Tay, a librarian and long-time observer of research tools recap the citation context features in Semantic Scholars, scite, Web of Science, and Scholarcy. “The definitions for citation sentence or citation context vary slightly but…
(4 Feb 2021) From Aaron Tay’s Musings about librarianship: “It seems to me when posting academic papers on social media for promotional purposes, there are 3 factors at play. What content you post / how you post the message When and how often you post the message Who you can reach – aka the reach/number…
(6 Dec 2020) UN Sustainability Goals or UN SDGs was first adopted in 2015 and consists of 17 goals adopted by all United Nations Member States to achieve by 2030. In particular, in academia, there seems to be increasing interest in mapping literature directed at each of the 17 UN SDGs and filters showing…
(21 Oct 2020) Imagine you are asked by a senior University administrator how much of your University’s output is currently made open access? Or if you wish to track if your researchers are complying with funder requirements. Wouldn’t it be nice to have auto-updating dashboards like this for the low price of free? See…
(3 Jul 2019) Aaron Tay compared 6 access broker browser extensions which help direct users to full text available – both open access versions and those available via institutional edition. Comparisons in business model, access to OA resources, methods of detection entitlements, support of publisher/aggregator platforms, & support of library services are made and opinions…