(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…
(11 Jan 2023) Microsoft is looking to incorporate ChatGPT, the viral chatbot from OpenAI, in its Bing search engine in a bid to beat Google Search. According to The Information, which cites unnamed sources familiar with the plans, ChatGPT would be used to answer search queries in Bing instead of merely showing links. This new version…
(26 December 2018) The National Diet Library has released The Best of National Diet Library’s Digital Library Collections (よりすぐり国立国会図書館). This web page provides patrons with a simple way to search through more than a hundred digital images of rare books, old materials, modern Japanese political history materials, and other examples of the best items available…
(12 December 2018) The Lens is an academic search engine that gathers patents and academic documents, such as articles, communications, books and theses, in a unified and separate system at the same time, since each type of document has its place on the results page. It stands out for offering innovative solutions with which it…
(8 October 2018) CORE, the world’s largest aggregator of open access scientific content, and Naver, South Korea’s number one search solution, have entered into a collaboration that will see CORE’s content being made available to 42 million Naver users. As part of the collaboration, Naver ingests data collected by CORE to enrich its Naver Academic…
(21 May 2018) Did you know about the search engine functionality in Chrome and other browsers? To get DOAJ search results while on any web page, you can set your browser’s search box to interface the DOAJ search engine and land on DOAJ’s search results page. This trick removes the need to first navigate to DOAJ…
(3 October 2017) Earlier this year the American Chemical Society (ACS), a leading source of academic publications in the field of chemistry, filed a lawsuit against Sci-Hub and its operator Alexandra Elbakyan. The non-profit organization publishes tens of thousands of articles a year in its peer-reviewed journals. Because many of these are available for free…
(10 November 2016, Amsterdam) The ability to google through records is within reach, concludes the final report of the project Full Automatic Archival Access (FAAA). This project studied the opportunities to use new digital technologies to make paper based archives searchable at document-level. Four out of five words were correctly recognized by OCR- and NER-software.…
(16 September 2016, Alexandria, VA) The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters reinvented search technology for intellectual property (IP) researchers in its latest update to Thomson Innovation, the premiere IP research and analysis solution. Thomson Innovation brings together the world’s most comprehensive international patent coverage and the industry’s most powerful IP analysis tools,…
(3 December 2015) This guide was created by the curator of the JURN search-engine. The guide lists various free search-engines and tools. Specifically, those tools likely to lead to open material useful for UK students and researchers in the arts and humanities. The search engines and tools are organised as Q&A. “How can I search…