In late 2018, I gave a talk at  OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Conference Meeting 2018 and I gave my thoughts on how I see the game changing for libraries in the years to come based on 3 fundamental trends.

Note: This is based off my contribution to the Upstream blog (plus some major additions)- Aaron Tay is Keeping Tabs on Open Research I tend to find interesting articles via Twitter or from following references of such articles. For articles that look potentially interesting I will usually put the link in my Google Keep and tag them with “Professional Development” , which I try to clear every week.

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.