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.

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I have become increasing bullish on the rise of what I have called innovative literature mapping tools which have been emerging in the last two to three years thanks to the increasing availability of openly Scholarly metadata (in particular title, abstracts and citation data). I would identify Barney walker's Citation Gecko released in 2018 as the first of it's class of

In the last month, there were two interesting developments that caused quite a stir in my twitter feeds (see discussions here and here). Firstly, there was an interesting announcement on the Unpaywall mailing list, that Unpaywall had detected that Semantic Scholar which was one of the biggest repository sources they were tracked had removed most of the articles it was hosting.

Synopsis : The definition of Open Access is far more complicated and debated than it appears on first glance.

One of the themes that I have been blogging about in recent years is the increased availability of open metadata in the academic/Scholarly ecosystem.  Article metadata (including citations & Scholarly PIDs - permanent ID) are now becoming widely available due to organizations like Crossref, ORCID, ROR and advocacy organizations like Intitative for Open Citations (I4OC) and

In this blog post, I will report on some major progress I believe have been made in the push for open citations Firstly, the recent announcement by Elsevier followed by ACS that they will finally support open citations is

In November 2019's Systematically improving the visibility of your research on social media - what would this look like? , I shared two initatives, one by a University Library and another by a  Researcher/Publisher to try to experiment to improve the visibility of their research papers posted on Social Media.

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