New educational opportunities from edX and 2U

The American Psychological Association (APA) and edX, a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc., announced APA as the newest member of the global edX partner network and the launch of its first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

A German Research Foundation (DFG) project develops first knowledge graph for patent information

In the "Patents4Science" project, four Leibniz institutes joined forces to build an information infrastructure for the easy use of patent knowledge in science.

Detecting plagiarism in AI-generated text

ChatGPT has taken the world by storm and excited the imaginations of its millions of users, who find innovative applications from which ChatGPT learns. Educators and librarians worry that text generated by ChatGPT and similar programs will encourage plagiarism and make it more difficult to detect.

F1000 launched Health Open Research

Health Open Research expands the former AMRC publishing platform to open up medical research globally

OCLC and Clarivate settle lawsuit

On 7 November 2022, OCLC and Clarivate issued separate press releases announcing the settlement of OCLC's lawsuit against Clarivate, originally filed in June 2022.

CHORUS and IEEE have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to pilot a TechRxiv preprint dashboard service

CHORUS  announced on 21 November 2022 that it will create a Preprint Dashboard and Reporting Service to identify related funders, datasets, reuse licenses, ORCID identifiers, and links to published articles on publisher sites and government public access repositories.

Virtual and physical library services—it’s not a competition

From his perspective as Strategy and Commissioning Manager - Universal Services, Warwickshire County Council, and President, Libraries Connected, Ayub Khan MBE shares his unique perspective on what's been happening in libraries, particularly public libraries, as they grow their services, change to adapt to new technologies and prove their value to their communities. 

Should librarians be interested (or not) in Knowledge Management?

In the opinion of Denise Carter, Managing Director of DCision Consult and a long-time information professional, the answer is yes, librarians should be interested in KM, but they should consider why and when, plus what value that interest could deliver for them.

I seek, you seek, they all seek for information in context

At the 2022 ISIC (Information Seeking in Context) biennial conference, held in Berlin, information researchers from around the world gathered to share their research about information seeking behaviours. If that all sounds very academic and scholarly, it mainly was. But that doesn't mean practicing librarians couldn't come away with a few nuggets they could use.

Preserving websites to ensure perpetual access

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine lets you see what websites used to look like but it can only do that if volunteers actively save those sites and pages. Gary Price explains how to do that.

Gale Digital Scholar Lab Adds New Collaboration Feature to Support Digital Humanities Projects in the Classroom

Digital Science acquires knowledge graph and decision intelligence software company metaphacts

ResoluteAI Launches Clinical Trial Analytics

Learn about new technologies relevant to international internet librarians

The UK electronic information Group (UKeiG) is delighted to announce its online CPD course programme for the first quarter of 2023.

Ford Heritage Vault unlocked to add new digital U.K. archives

Ford's new online Heritage Vault now offers a more comprehensive digital archive collection following the addition of more than 1,600 new photos showing every car produced in the U.K.

The International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) have issued a statement on the metadata rights of libraries

Metadata and the metadata services that describe library collections are critical in supporting content discovery, knowledge creation, and libraries' public missions. Metadata describing library collections is not typically copyrightable, and should be considered freely shareable and reusable under most circumstances. However, some industry players restrict libraries' rights to use such metadata through contractual terms and market influence. Such restrictive activity is out of alignment with libraries' needs and public, not-for-profit/educational missions.