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Grow Your Research Information Hub with Smart Harvesting AI

Author: Exlibris blogs Researchers want their work to be acknowledged; and universities want their researchers to be acknowledged. Ensuring it happens is a necessary step to earning peer recognition, securing future funding, and improving the university’s academic ranking. The institution’s research information hub (also known as a research repository) plays a key role in collecting […]

The importance of early career researchers for promoting open research

Author: Iain Hrynaszkiewicz Early career researchers again appear to be at the vanguard of open research, with them reporting more positive attitudes towards sharing of code compared to more experienced researchers – as found in PLOS research released as a preprint this week. At the end of March 2021 PLOS Computational Biology introduced a more […]

New Open Access Business Models — What’s Needed to Make Them Work

Author: DAVID CROTTY In order to build a diverse ecosystem of open access publishing models that can support the diverse needs of the many different members of the research community, other models will be needed. But developing a new model is not an easy undertaking. Launching a new business model, figuring out how to make […]

Without social sciences, humanities and arts, the goal of sustainability may never be reached

Author: Eric Neumayer Eric Neumayer and Charles Joly argue that the key challenges posed by making a transition to a sustainable net-zero carbon economy are social, rather than technological. As such, instead of waiting for technological change to simply emerge, in the post-covid world, a new emphasis should be placed on SHAPE subjects (social sciences, […]

Trends in Physical and Electronic Resource Usage in U.S. Academic Libraries

Author: Yoel Kortick Over the past few decades libraries have moved from collections of books and other print media to complex collections of print and electronic resources. By looking at historical trends it is possible to conjecture what the future of these collections will look like. There are many different ways of looking at the […]