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One possible solution to ghost citations
Admittedly, it’s more of a band-aid approach, but it’s gotta be better than nothing. Aaron Tay has a lengthy post describing what’s going on with ghost references, and I’m thinking specifically about how Google Scholar creates them. Here’s a link to the example in question (now up to 56 citations!), and here are the sections
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Updates to the Ithaka AI Product Tracker
One of the best collections of education-related AI tools, the Ithaka S+R Generative AI Product Tracker has been upgraded from Google Sheets to Airtable, according to a post on the Ithaka blog. They’ve also taken the opportunity to tweak which tools they’re covering: We have also refined the scope of the tracker. While our tracker
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Mita’s observations on gatekeeping
When I saw the title of Mita’s most recent post, The internet was designed to route around gatekeepers, I was expecting and hoping for a cool example or tool along the lines of Jump the Paywall. Alas, her post is actually a sober reminder that “publishers don’t need academic libraries to reach faculty or students
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ScienceDirect is marketing AI directly to students and researchers?
Very interesting – I just found myself looking at an article in ScienceDirect, and was presented with a large panel touting an AI Reading Assistant, something I know we don’t subscribe to at the U of Calgary. I wondered if maybe we DID subscribe to it, but it hadn’t yet been announced. After signing in
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Free Course – RDMLA: AI for Librarians
From a press release: The RDMLA team is thrilled to announce the launch of our newest course: RDMLA: AI for Librarians! Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming the landscape of data and information services—and librarians are at the forefront of this change. That’s why we created AI for Librarians: a practical, hands-on course designed to help you build AI competencies in