MORE 'NEW-RESEARCH' POSTS
The paper linked below was published today by Nature. It discusses the work by Ai2 and the University of Washington to develop OpenScholar that we’ve been posting about around here since it launched (as a prototype) in late 2024. Some of OpenScholar’s resources are accessible (to all) via the Asta ecosystem of tools. Title Synthesizing […]
The preprint linked below was recently posted on arXiv. Title The ‘Big Three’ of Scientific Information: A Comparative Bibliometric Review of Web of Science, Scopus, and OpenAlex Authors Daniel Torres-Salinas EC3metrics, Universidad de Granada, Spain Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado EC3metrics, Universidad de Granada, Spain Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2601.21908 Abstract The present comparative study examines the three […]
The article linked below was recently published by Quantitative Science Studies. Title Research Intelligence: an Emerging Concept Authors Rik Iping Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, The Netherlands Tung Tung Chan Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherland Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden […]
Working Paper: “The Scholarly Communication Attitudes And Behaviours of Gen – Z Researchers: A Pathfinding Study”
| Data Files, Interviews, Journal Articles, News, Scholarly Communications
The working paper linked below was recently shared on Cambridge Open Engage. Title The Scholarly Communication Attitudes And Behaviours of Gen – Z Researchers: A Pathfinding Study Authors David NicholasCIBER Research David ClarkCIBER Research Abdullah Abrizah,Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Jorge RevezUniversity of Lisbon Blanca Rodríguez-Bravo,Universidad de Leon, Leon, Spain Marzena Swigon,Uniwersytet Warminsko-Mazurski, Olsztyn, Poland […]
New today from Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature. From the Release: The report, now in its 10th year, is the longest running study into open research behaviour and attitudes. Combining survey data from more than 4,700 responses across 151 countries with global expert perspectives from researchers, librarians and policy leaders, it provides an unprecedented insight […]
The Atlantic: “Science is Drowning in AI Slop”
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Journal Articles, News, Productivity, Publishing, Reports
From The Atlantic. (via MSN): Scientific publishing has always had its plumbing problems. Even before ChatGPT, journal editors struggled to control the quantity and quality of submitted work. Alex Csiszar, a historian of science at Harvard, told me that he has found letters from editors going all the way back to the early 19th century […]
Reports: Microsoft is Closing Its Employee Library and Cutting Back on Subscriptions
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Reports
From The Verge: Microsoft’s library of books is so heavy that it once caused a campus building to sink, according to an unproven legend among employees. Now those physical books, journals, and reports, and many of Microsoft’s digital subscriptions to leading US newspapers, are disappearing in a shift described inside Microsoft as an “AI-powered learning […]
Online Event: University of Kansas Libraries Launches Global Speaker Series on Librarianship
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Lecture, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access
From the University of Kansas Libraries: The University of Kansas Libraries will launch “Global Conversations in Librarianship,” a new speaker series highlighting international perspectives on libraries and information work, with Ukrainian library leader Tetyana Yaroshenko as its inaugural speaker Feb. 26. Yaroshenko, deputy director for research and international affairs at the State Scientific and Technical […]
portal: Libraries and the Academy (Vol 26, No 1; Preprints For All Articles Now Available Online)
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Reports
Preprints for all articles found in in portal: Libraries and the Academy (Vol 26, No 1) are now available online. Links below. From the ICU to Academia: A conversation with Maribeth Slebodnik (Editorial) Author(s): Ellysa Stern Cahoy, Maribeth Slebodnik Insights from a Burnout Debate: Occupational Health Psychology for Academic Librarianship (Worth Noting) Author(s): Matthew Weirick […]
Conference Paper: “Hallucinations in Scholarly LLMs: A Conceptual Overview and Practical Implications”
| Conference Presentations, Journal Articles, News, Scholarly Communications
The paper linked below appears in the Proceedings of the 2nd AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence). Bridge on Artificial Intelligence for Scholarly Communication. Title Hallucinations in Scholarly LLMs: A Conceptual Overview and Practical Implications Authors Naveen Lamba Sharda University, India Sanju Tiwari Sharda University, India Manas Gaur University of Maryland, Baltimore County […]









