Journal Article: “Barriers and Opportunities in the Discoverability and Indexing of Student-Led Academic Journals”
The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of Academic Librarianship. Title Barriers and Opportunities in the Discoverability and Indexing of Student-Led Academic Journals Author Mariya Maistrovskaya University of Toronto Libraries Source Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 12(1), eP16820. DOI: 10.31274/jlsc.16820 Abstract Introduction: Student-led journals are not commonly [...]
Research Article (Preprint): “Artificial Intelligence’s Contribution to Biomedical Literature Search: Revolutionizing or Complicating?”
The article (preprint) linked below was recently shared on bioRxiv. Title Artificial Intelligence’s Contribution to Biomedical Literature Search: Revolutionizing or Complicating? Authors Rui Yip Stanford University Young Joo Sun Stanford University Alexander G. Bassuk University of Iowa Vinit B. Mahajan Stanford University University of Iowa Palo Alto Health Care System [...]
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