As an academic librarian, I’m often asked: “Which AI search tool should I use?” With a flood of new tools powered by large language models (LLMs) entering the academic search space, answering that question is increasingly complex.
In its March 2025 meeting, the Crossref board unanimously voted to update both the Crossref bylaws and the Crossref membership terms to: Provide more clarity and alignment between our bylaws and membership terms, where they had become out of sync over the years. Reflect previous board motions and bring both documents up-to-date with current processes for suspending and revoking membership, and reviewing those decisions.
According to the 2021-22 Domestic Violence module of the Kingdom of Cambodia’s Demographic and Health Survey (CDHS), over 21% of Cambodian women aged 15–49 who have ever had a husband (or intimate partner), have experienced physical, sexual, economic, and/or emotional intimate partner violence in their lifetime.
GigaScience Press’ has been awarded one of the first CrossRef MetaData Awards, highlighting the Press as a leader in providing essential information to facilitate discovery, identification, and details of online research articles. This week GigaScience Press has been announced as a winner at the inaugural Crossref Metadata Awards, recognising efforts in scholarly publishing metadata completeness and enrichment in their journal,
‘Do you come from the land Down Under? Where women glow and men plunder?’ ‘Down Under,’ Men at Work I feel like I have talked about this before (Beattie 2022;
In one form or another, this website has had the little widget to display some information about myself at the bottom of the page since 2018.
A Lullaby for the Silenced Chorus
A few years ago, the R community started using ORCID (“Open Researcher and Contributor ID”) to persistently and uniquely identify individual authors of packages in DESCRIPTION.The idea is the following: you enter authors’ ORCID as a specially named comment in their person() object.For instance I can be represented by:person("Maëlle", "Salmon", , "maelle@ropensci.org", role = c("cre", "aut"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2815-0399"))
I’m really delighted today to announce the publication of my, and my co-authors’, new paper on the Carnegie Diplodocus: Taylor, Michael P., Amy C. Henrici, Linsly J. Church, Ilja Nieuwland and Matthew C. Lamanna. 2025. The history and composition of the Carnegie Diplodocus.
The Open Science (OS) movement has evolved in the last decades, with different actors taking different paths across the various dimensions of the OS concept. Contradictory implementation plans for open access and disparate visions of citizen science co-exist, and are often in conflict at the global scale.
As part of a funded project supported by the DataCite Global Access Fund (GAF), the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) has advanced an innovative research initiative to preserve cultural heritage through motion capture (mocap) technology and persistent identifiers (PIDs) Aligned with DataCite’s vision to make research more discoverable, accessible, and reusable, the initiative leverages mocap technology to preserve digitally and globally