(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…
(20 Mar 2025) Research Solutions, Inc. announces significant enhancements to its AI product, Scite Assistant, that will help enterprise customers get more accurate responses to complex research questions and tasks. Scite differentiates itself from other AI tools by pairing proprietary citation data and exclusive access to scholarly content with powerful AI models. The latest release…
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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(5 Mar 2025) CCC will introduce a new AI Systems Training License later this year, enabling AI system providers and organizations developing AI-powered applications to use lawfully acquired copyrighted works as inputs for training models and generating external-facing outputs. Designed as a complement to direct licensing agreements or as a standalone solution, the license simplifies how organizations obtain…
(19 Feb 2025) The summer of 2023 was not a good time for AI detectors. OpenAI famously recalled its AI detector, saying it wasn’t effective. A study by the Washington Post found serious gaps in the efficacy of AI detection systems, and a similar study by academic researchers found similar issues. Things weren’t looking significantly better…
(26 Feb 2025) As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become increasingly integrated into scholarly research and knowledge dissemination, publishers face a critical challenge: how to best integrate their content into this new ecosystem. Currently, an increasing number of publishers are collaborating with AI system suppliers to license their content for large language model training, small model…