Two years ago in 2018 I started to realise the importance and value of Data discovery and slowly began studying various challenges to making Datasets discoverable.

Update Nov 2021 - A relook at GetFTR , Libkey, Exlibris Quicklinks, and other linking and authentication technologies

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. I guarantee you this blog post is 100% written by the human Aaron Tay, though as always in areas I am teaching myself take everything here with more than the usual pinch of salt!

Why GPT-3 might be the greatest disruption to libraries since Google

Librarians are at best ambivalent about Google, but it's hard to deny they come up with really interesting and useful tools.

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.

It's a cliche to say that the volume of scientific literature produced is increasing at a rate beyond which researchers can keep up.

Microsoft Academic (first relaunched in 2016) is one of the biggest index of academic content next to Google Scholar.

One thing the COVID-19 crisis has put a spotlight on is how well our scientific publishing system works.

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.