Update Nov 2021 - A relook at GetFTR , Libkey, Exlibris Quicklinks, and other linking and authentication technologies While allowing users to gain access to paywalled academic content aka delivery services is often seen to be less sexy than discovery it is still an important part of the researcher workflow that is worth looking at. In particular, I will argue that in the past few years we have seen a renewed

https://www.leidenranking.com/ranking/2020/list Recently the CWTS Leiden Rankings for 2020 was released and like many institution rankings , it used common research indicators such as More importantly it included less commonly seen indicators like Open Access Indicators and Gender Indicators.

My apologies for the little deception in the last blost post.

Why GPT-3 might be the greatest disruption to libraries since Google tags : tech, machine-learning, academic libraries Summary : I share my early experiments with OpenAI's new language prediction model (GPT-3) beta. I explain why I think GPT-3 has potential to disrupt academic librarians

Librarians are at best ambivalent about Google, but it's hard to deny they come up with really interesting and useful tools. From the early days of GMail, which revolutionized web email to more recent advancements where Machine learning is used in Google Photos and Lens to make life just a little bit easier, one doesn't need to be a fan of Google to recognise they can be quite innovative.

In this blog post, which was co-written with Bianca Kramer (Utrecht University Library) and Ludo Waltman (CWTS, Leiden University), we discuss the value of openly available abstracts. This post was originally published at Medium.

It's a cliche to say that the volume of scientific literature produced is increasing at a rate beyond which researchers can keep up. With the rise of Machine learning techniques and more importantly the increasing availability of open meta-data and increased open full text , we are starting to see tools appear that try to leverage this to produce applications that can help take the load off researchers on what to read and to

Microsoft Academic (first relaunched in 2016) is one of the biggest index of academic content next to Google Scholar. It consists of two major parts Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG), the open dataset source generated by Microsoft by their Bing crawlers and Microsoft Academic - the web search interface  created over MAG data.  Microsoft Academic - the web search interface  created using MAG.

One thing the COVID-19 crisis has put a spotlight on is how well our scientific publishing system works. Preprints that allow more speedy dissemination of scientific results but at the cost of quality have been in the spotlight . The impact of perverse incentives that leads researchers to delay release of data to publish in top journals is yet another problem that has become more salient.

Boolean query in 2D Search for Lens.org (sneak peak) In a fairly popular  2014 blog post entitled "Why Nested Boolean search statements may not work as well as they did", I set out the case for why for the majority of users, doing overly complicated nested boolean is unlikely to be of much additional value. Argument rested on two main arguments.

How is everybody? As I write this, we are in day 9 of our "circuit breaker" (which is very like a soft lockdown) here in Singapore. As an introvert and being pretty adept on the use of technology for communicating, I would have thought that this would be a dream for me. Don't get me wrong.