In the last month, there were two interesting developments that caused quite a stir in my twitter feeds (see discussions here and here).

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 &

In this blog post, I will report on some major progress I believe have been made in the push for open citations

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.

Welcome to Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship by me, Aaron Tay.

Synopsis : I summarise some of my favourite literature review tools that have emerged in the last 2 years or so and the use cases I see them fitting in.

UN Sustainability Goals or UN SDGs was first adopted in 2015 , and consists of 17 goals adopted by all United Nations Member States to achieve by 2030.

In my last post, I talked about the state of retractions in the literature and how so much of the literature includes authors who probably unknowingly cites retracted works

Chinese translated version available here In terms of cross disciplinary citation indexes that are used for discovery, everyone knows of the two incumbants — Web of Science and Scopus(2004) . Joined by the large web scale Google Scholar (2004) , these three reigned as the “Big 3” of citation indexes for roughly a decade more or less unchallenged.

As always I am on the lookout for new interesting discovery applications and search engines, and in this blog post I will briefly mention and describe (not a full blown review) the following new ones that caught my eye.