Following my recent talk for the Boston Library Consortium, many of you expressed a strong interest in learning how to test the new generation of AI-powered academic search tools. Specifically, evaluating systems using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) was the top request, surpassing interest in learning more about semantic search or LLMs alone. This is a crucial topic, as these tools are rapidly entering our landscape.

2024 was a banner year for dataset resources in DataCite. The National Institute of Fusion Science registered over 10,000,000 datasets. These metadata are remarkably complete - a bright spot demonstrating great metadata at scale.

In this dual case study, we learn why the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) relies on OA.Report and why OA.Report relies on ROR to help HHMI track compliance with its open access policy. “Even back then [in 2019], the best option was to lean on a big, community-owned solution. And it’s been great to see ROR effectively become the standard, the clear way forward for identifying organizations.” “We think ROR is terrific.

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This is the April issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users.Blogs added to Rogue Scholar Nine blogs from six different subject areas were added in April. Welcome everybody!

A Newspaper Born in the Fire of Bloody Harlan In early May 1931 thousands of miners in Harlan and neighboring Bell County, Kentucky, walked off the job to protest brutal conditions and another round of wage cuts. Their walk-out erupted into gunfire at the Battle of Evarts on 5 May, a fifteen-minute exchange that left three company guards and one union miner dead and carried “Bloody Harlan” onto front pages nationwide.