Is there any point in doing a literature review now that genAI can do it for you? That’s the timely question raised in a recent article in LSE Impact (“Why write a literature review if …
Adaptability and innovation are words that spring to mind with Andrew Smeall. From studying Chinese in Beijing, he was involved in setting up journal production systems at Hindawi and Wiley, before his present tole, as VP of Product Innovation at Sage. …
What motivates a research scientist? How does a researcher choose their topics? What’s their view of preprints and open science? All these questions, and more, are answered in an interview with Michele Frison, a post-doctoral research assistant at the MRC Mitochondrial …
Ghost references are links that have not been validated. If an author cites an article, then many tools exist to check that link and to turn it into a hyperlink (if one doesn’t already exist). But, for whatever …
One of the most impressive capabilities of genAI is the ability to summarise and to define terms. Increasingly, I, like many users, ask natural-language questions of AI and I often find the answers valuable. One …
Herbert van de Sompel, recently interviewed for the ATG Podcast, describes himself, somewhat modestly, as an “infrastructure plumber” rather than a librarian. Putting it more accurately, he explains “Over the past 25, 30 years, I’ve done a lot of basic infrastructure …
The MIRL Conference (November) is just what a user-based conference should be: a series of case studies, with repository managers willing to share what worked, and at times, what didn’t work, with their peers. In this year’s conference, during an extended …
This is a conference where you get close to the presenters
There is an endearing air of disorganisation about the Search Solutions Conference: even though it has been running for over 20 years, it continues to have an unscripted feel. …
The Center for Open Science, co-founded by Brian Nosek, has been responsible for many of the big innovations in science practice over the last ten years, including the Open Science Framework and the Reproducibility Project. In this interview I talked …
