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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”
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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 […]
The preprint below (version 2) was recently shared on arXiv. Title How Permanent are Metadata For Research Data? Understanding Changes in DataCite Metadata (v2) Author Dorothea Strecker Humboldt-Universit¨at zu Berlin Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2412.05128 Abstract With the move towards open research information, the DOI registration agency DataCite is increasingly used as a source for […]
Conference Paper: “BookReconciler: An Open-Source Tool for Metadata Enrichment and Work-Level Clustering”
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The conference paper linked below was shared on arXiv. Title BookReconciler: An Open-Source Tool for Metadata Enrichment and Work-Level Clustering Authors Matt Miller Library of Congress Dan Sinykin Emory University Melanie Walsh University of Washington Information School Source arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2512.10165 Published in the Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2025 Abstract […]
Roundup: New AI-Related Research and News Reports
| Data Files, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports, Roundup, Scholarly Communications
Most of the items listed below were published/posted in the past day or two. Chatbots Poetry Can Trick AI Chatbots Into Ignoring Safety Rules, New Research ShowsSource: Euronews Copyright Creative Grey Zones: Copyright in the Age of HybriditySource: The Alan Turing Institute Cultural Heritage Publishing Cultural Heritage Data in the Age of AISource: Europeana/Open Future […]
Journal Article: “Book Club Programs in United States Academic Libraries: A Survey”
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The article linked below was published today by The Journal of Academic Librarianship. Title Book Club Programs In United States Academic Libraries: A Survey Author Mary Kamela University of Buffalo Source The Journal of Academic Librarianship Volume 52, Issue 1, January 2026, 103162 DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103162 Abstract In the United States, book clubs are typically associated with the […]
Research Paper: Toward Integrating AI Chat and Search: A User-Centered Perspective Across Age Groups
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The article linked below was recently made available (full text) by the ACM Digital Library. Title Toward Integrating AI Chat and Search: A User-Centered Perspective Across Age Groups Authors Chen He University of Helsinki Michiel Spape University of Macau Khadijatul Kobra University of Helsinki Robin Welsch University of Helsinki Giulio Jacucci University of Helsinki Source […]
