Knowledgespeak Editorial – AI and Peer Review: Balancing Efficiency with Integrity - September 2, 2025
Peer review has long been the backbone of scholarly publishing, the process that upholds quality, credibility, and trust in academic discourse. Yet today, it faces an inflection point. Artificial intelligence is no longer just hovering at the margins of research workflows—it is actively encroaching on the gatekeeping process itself. The… Read More
Mass spectral database for drugs, poisons, and metabolites gains NIST format access - September 1, 2025
Wiley has announced that the second edition of the database titled “Maurer, Meyer, Helfer, Weber: LC-HR-MS/MS Library of Drugs, Poisons, and Their Metabolites” is now available in NIST format. This library comprises more than 5,500 high-resolution mass spectra, covering over 2,300 parent drugs or poisons and more… Read More
Editorial evaluates the benefits and concerns of AI scribes in clinical practice - September 1, 2025
A newly published editorial in JMIR Medical Informatics assesses the rapid adoption of ambient AI scribes in healthcare and outlines both their potential and associated risks. Authored by Dr. Tiffany I. Leung, Dr. Andrew J. Coristine, and Dr. Arriel Benis, the editorial evaluates AI-driven… Read More
New AI tool flags over 1,000 questionable scientific journals - September 1, 2025
Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder have developed an artificial intelligence tool to identify scientific journals potentially operating under questionable publishing standards. Published in Science Advances, the study addresses the proliferation of so-called 'predatory' journals—publications that charge authors fees without providing standard peer review or editorial… Read More
UTSA Libraries support compliance with federal open access mandates - September 1, 2025
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Libraries is helping researchers comply with new federal requirements mandating that the results of federally funded research be made publicly available immediately upon publication. The change, announced by agencies including the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and… Read More
FAU marks decade of the Journal of Big Data - September 1, 2025
Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) College of Engineering and Computer Science is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Journal of Big Data, an open-access publication co-founded in 2014 by FAU faculty researchers and Editors-in-Chief Dr. Borko Furht and Dr. Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar. Over the past decade, the journal… Read More