Featured Posts
Internet Archive Adds Searchable Access to Archived Pages From the CIA World Factbook
Mark Graham at the Internet Archive tells us that searchable access to more than 18,000 archived pages from the CIA World Factbook found in The Wayback Machine’s collection are now available online via this interface. Thanks Mark! Thanks Internet Archive! See Also: More Searchable Collections via The Wayback Machine
Journal Article: “What Undergraduate Students Need to Know and Actually Know About Generative AI”
The article linked below (full text) was published today by Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence. Title What Undergraduate Students Need to Know and Actually Know About Generative AI Authors Sina Rismanchian University of California, Irvine Eesha Tur Razia Babar University of California, Irvine Shayan Doroudi| University of California, Irvine Source [...]
Sponsored
What Content Do Academic Libraries Rely on Most?
In today’s rapidly evolving academic landscape, libraries face the dual challenge of meeting diverse research needs while managing constrained budgets. The recent report from Clarivate, “Current trends in academic library holdings: The evolution towards aggregated content,” offers a timely and data-driven perspective on how libraries are responding to these pressures.
More Recent Posts
Digital Collections: Newly Digitized Papers Shed Light on WWII Internment
From the Stanford Report Stanford University Libraries have digitized the Kazuyuki Takahashi papers, an “extraordinary collection” of letters and photographs that expand the historical record of wartime incarceration in the United States. The Kazuyuki Takahashi papers, comprising digital scans of correspondence, photographs, and related materials created and collected by Stanford University graduate Kazuyuki “Kaz” Takahashi and […]
AP: “CIA Ends Publication of Its Popular World Factbook Reference Tool”
From the Associated Press: Close the cover on the CIA World Factbook: The spy agency announced Wednesday that after more than 60 years, it is shuttering the popular reference manual. The announcement posted to the CIA’s website offered no reason for the decision to end the Factbook, but it follows a vow from Director John Ratcliffe to end programs […]
Journal Article: Synthesizing Scientific Literature with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
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 […]
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Report: “Georgia Librarians Could Face Criminal Charges For ‘Harmful Materials'”
From the Georgia Recorder: Librarians and education advocates are warning that a bill moving through the state Legislature could cause Georgia’s librarians to self-censor controversial materials and lead to more challenges on books about LGBTQ people or issues. Senate Bill 74, sponsored by Sylvania Republican Sen. Max Burns, changes an exemption in state law dealing […]
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Publishes Guidelines for Green Libraries
New From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). The guidelines document was edited by Petra Hauke, Antonia Mocatta, and Priscilla Nga Ian Pun “with contributions and support from the IFLA Guidelines for Green Libraries Working Group of the IFLA Environment, Sustainability and Libraries (ENSULIB) Section.” From an Introductory Post: The IFLA Environment, Sustainability […]
ADVERTISEMENT
Research Article (preprint): How Disciplinary Partnerships Shape Research Landscape in U.S. Library and Information Science Schools
The research article (preprint) linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title How Disciplinary Partnerships Shape Research Landscape in U.S. Library and Information Science Schools Authors Jiangen He University of Tennessee, Knoxville Wen Lou East China Normal University, Shanghai, China Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2601.20806 Abstract This study provides the first comprehensive empirical mapping of […]
Research Paper (preprint): The ‘Big Three’ of Scientific Information: A Comparative Bibliometric Review of Web of Science, Scopus, and OpenAlex
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 […]
