Note: This is adapted from an internal talk I gave at my place of work. It is written for generalists who want to have an idea about DOIs and related services and hence does not go into specific details (e.g. how to actually deposit metadata, fields used etc). The thesis here is that if you are an academic librarian you could probably do well to learn more about DOIs.
If there is one academic discovery search that dominates it is Google Scholar.
Web of Science - Pilot- enhanced cited references In the recent years I have been blogging quite a bit about the idea of citation contexts (or citation intent or citation sentiment or...) in journal articles. While definitions and concepts might vary a little, the idea is not to simply just count citations but also try to figure out what they mean.
Since I started blogging about GPT-3 and language models, interest in this area has continued to increase.
A belated Happy New year to all my readers! The first blog post for the year will be a mixed bag of events or changes that have caught my eye.
As a generalist and dilettante in the field of academic librarianship, I highly appreciate works that
RISK WARNING NOTICE: my understanding of such matters are incomplete, read at your own risk! I haven't been looking closely at Seamless Access and GetFTR for a while, but given it is nearly two years since GetFTR was announced, I decided to see how it has changed and was pleasantly surprised by some of the changes.
It seems like OA week first started as "OA day" in 2007, the year I became a academic librarian. Since then for the next 14 years, I would mark OA week, with an invited talk or two, a blog post or more commonly nothing at all.
I recently received an interesting question.
One of the central themes of my blog is that it covers the topic of academic discovery (100+ blog posts are tagged "Discovery" out of 300+ posts) and when it comes to discovery in the academic area, the importance of Google Scholar looms over everything we do in this area.
Announcement As mentioned in the last blog post, this blog has been migrated to using follow.it service due to the retirement of Feedburner's email service, and this is the first post since the migration. If you have subscribed to us via email in the past, hopefully you should be getting this post via email as usual.