(27 May 2026) For most of the history of scholarly publishing, the definition of “end user” was stable enough that no one thought to question it. The user was a researcher, a student, a clinician, a librarian: a human being who navigated a platform, read content, and formed their own judgments. Everything downstream of that assumption,…
The brief launch of an app promising to attend students’ lectures as well as write their assignments caused some academics to despair at a dystopian near-future in which learning becomes a pointless sham. But others believe the abyss can be bypassed. Juliette Rowsell reports. (7 Apr 2026) The launch of Einstein AI in February was seen by…
(27 Jan 2026) A new survey from Wolters Kluwer Health has found that unauthorized AI tools and applications, referred to as shadow AI, are being used across hospitals and health systems in the United States, including in situations involving direct patient care. The survey indicates that this activity may raise issues related to patient safety, data privacy, and regulatory…
(6 Aug 2025) The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released the results of a 2024 survey on artificial intelligence in web-scale library discovery services. The report, titled ‘Generative Artificial Intelligence and the NISO Open Discovery Initiative,’ was developed by the NISO Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) Standing Committee. This publication follows the 2020 update of the ODI’s Recommended…
From Clarivate’s Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are “quietly” blocking controversial topics from being searched (29 Jul 2025) This article by Aaron Tay discusses how AI-powered academic search tools, especially Clarivate’s Summon Research Assistant and Primo Research Assistant, are being affected by content-moderation filters that block or impede…
(30 Dec 2024) At LibraryLearningSpace.com, we are dedicated to sharing what’s happening in the library and academic publishing world by curating news from across the globe. Looking back at 2024, the most viewed and frequently published topics were artificial intelligence (AI), research integrity, and our column of Ruth’s Rankings. AI’s Growing Role in Research …
(4 Dec 2024) AI-assisted document query and summarization services are becoming more common. This post compares the ‘ask a PDF’ outputs of several services. Overall responses were good, with reasonable variation, and no significant hallucinations. It also touches on some characteristics of AI-based services. Lorcan Dempsey shares his observation on such services including Microsoft…