(6 May 2026) CCC (Copyright Clearance Center), a pioneer in voluntary collective licensing, announced that, as of July 1, 2026, its Annual Copyright License for Higher Education (ACLHE) will include internal-use AI reuse rights, expanding the license to address the growing use of AI across higher education in the United States. Copyrighted materials are the fuel for Artificial…
(6 May 2026) The session at Charleston Asia delivered by Dr. Chetan Sudhakar Sonowane on the topic titled “Assessing impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based tools on library services and scholarly publishing” tried to cover the potential of AI based tools and its application in libraries. Its usefulness in the library is being explored. AI tools…
(6 May 2026) Artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed to execute end-to-end projects, from coming up with hypotheses to running and writing up experiments, are increasingly popular with researchers—and increasingly skilled. But a new study shows these tools can stealthily violate norms of research integrity. Computer scientist Nihar Shah of Carnegie Mellon University and colleagues looked…
(20 Apr 2026) This article examines a selection of online AI‑assisted video creation and editing tools through an academic library lens. Rather than providing exhaustive product comparisons, the goal is to highlight the types of functionality currently available, illustrate the range of tools on offer, and identify where these tools may help libraries save time…
(7 Apr 2026) Got sore, itchy eyes? You’re probably one of the millions of people who spend too much time staring at screens, being bombarded with blue light. Rub your eyes too much and your eyelids might turn a slight, pinkish hue. So far, so normal. But if, in the past 18 months, you typed…
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…
(6 Apr 2026) On January 6, 2026, freelance journalist Alex Preston published his review of the Jean-Baptiste Andrea book Watching Over Her. Though the review was overall positive, it became the source of controversy when, in March, readers noticed similarities between it and one published in The Guardian by Christobel Kent in August 2025. When confronted about…
(30 Mar 2026) Last week, Wikipedia announced a new policy regarding the usage of large language models (LLMs) when working on Wikipedia articles. The policy itself is straightforward: volunteers cannot use LLMs to generate or rewrite article content. The only exceptions are the use of AI for “basic copyedits” and to generate some translations. However, in both…
(25 Mar 2026) A major artificial-intelligence conference has rejected 497 papers — roughly 2% of submissions — whose authors violated AI-use policies in their peer reviews of other articles submitted to the meeting. The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), to be held in Seoul in July, has a reciprocal review policy, meaning that, bar…
(24 Mar 2026) Clarivate Plc announced the launch of a new Academic AI Impact study. The study examines how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping core workflows in academic libraries and delivering tangible operational benefits. AI tools are increasingly prevalent in research and learning environments, but there is little existing data that demonstrates the quantifiable…