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Report: “One in 277 PubMed-Indexed Papers In 2026 Shows Fabricated References, Says Analysis”
From Retraction Watch: Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 million papers published as a letter to The Lancet today. The analysis of articles indexed in PubMed found that about one in 277 papers published in the first seven weeks of 2026 referenced a paper that didn’t […]
Journal Article: Publications Produced and Services Offered by Library Publishing Programs in the United States and Canada: A Data-Driven Analysis
The article linked below was published today by the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. Title Publications Produced and Services Offered by Library Publishing Programs in the United States and Canada: A Data-Driven Analysis Authors Johanna Meetz The Ohio State University Jeff Story| Intel Corporation Source Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 14(1), eP20194 (2026) […]
Conference Paper (preprint): “Your Students Don’t Use LLMs Like You Wish They Did”
The preprint linked below will be presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Title Your Students Don’t Use LLMs Like You Wish They Did Authors Sebastian Kobler, Matthew Clemson, Angela Sun, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld Affiliation: The University of Sydney (All Authors) Source via arxiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2604.23486 Abstract Educational NLP […]
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Research Paper (preprint): “Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts of Interest”
The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts of Interest Authors Addison J. Wu Princeton University Ryan Liu Princeton University Shuyue Stella Li University of Washington Yulia Tsvetkov University of Washington Thomas L. Griffiths Princeton University Source via arXiv DOI: […]
American Library Association (ALA) Announces Recipients of the I Love My Librarian Award For 2026
From the American Library Association: The American Library Association (ALA) is thrilled to announce this year’s 10 recipients of the coveted I Love My Librarian Award. Serving communities across the nation, the 2026 honorees are exceptional librarians from academic, public, and school libraries who were nominated by community members for their expertise, dedication, and profound impact […]
404 Media: “‘BLOCKADE’: The Right is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning”
From 404 Media (by Claire Woodcock): Conservative parents’ advocacy groups have been experimenting with using commercially available artificial intelligence tools to help them flag more books they’ve deemed pornographic to be removed from public schools and libraries. Even though LLMs are notoriously error-prone, and the books in question aren’t pornographic, these groups continue to explore […]
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Video: RLUK 2026 Keynote by Dr. Carla Hayden
From RLUK (via YouTube): Dr Carla Hayden in conversation with Jane Harvell, Director of Library Culture and Heritage and University Librarian at the University of Sussex and RLUK Chair. Carla Hayden was sworn in as the 14th Librarian of Congress on September 14, 2016. Dr. Hayden, the first woman and the first African American to […]
Research Paper (preprint): How are AI Agents Used? Evidence From 177,000 MCP Tools
The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title How are AI Agents Used? Evidence From 177,000 MCP Tools Author Merlin Stein UK AI Security Institute, University of Oxford Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2603.23802 Abstract Today’s AI agents are built on large language models (LLMs) equipped with tools to access and modify external environments, […]
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New Resource: “ORION Dashboard: Bringing Open Research Data Within Reach”
From a Leiden Madtrics Post by Juan Pablo Bascur Cifuentes The ORION dashboard enables easy exploration of CWTS OpenAlex data on BigQuery, letting users analyse institutions, funders, and research topics via interactive visualisations and reproducible SQL queries without any coding skills required. [Clip] What the dashboard does The current version centres on two types of […]
Journal Article: “Evaluating Open Access Advantages for Citations and Altmetrics (2011-21): A Dynamic and Evolving Relationship Open Access”
The article linked below was recently published by Quantitative Science Studies. Title Evaluating Open Access Advantages for Citations and Altmetrics (2011-21): A Dynamic and Evolving Relationship Open Access Authors Mike Taylor University of Wolverhampton Source Quantitative Science Studies 1–60. DOI: 10.1162/QSS.a.470 Abstract Differences between the impacts of Open Access (OA) and non-OA research have been observed […]
