As you may have noticed, library vendors have begun introducing new tools on their platforms — tools that are “powered by AI.” Scopus AI and Lexis+AI are a couple of examples. Often these tools promise to perform functions such as summarizing information from publications, or “supporting” users in similar ways. […]
Please share with your subject areas (or consider for your own work). Gale has announced its support for short research fellowships at the Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford. Fellows can also focus on the Bodleian’s special collections. The deadline for applications is 29 November 2024. For full details, […]
Unfortunately the National Film Board has removed some films from our NFB Education streaming service (formerly known as NFB Campus). They haven’t provided a list of the films they’ve removed. This issue is affecting many universities across Canada, and multiple consortia are pressing the NFB to reverse, and at least […]
In case you missed it, CRKN announced this today (1 Oct): “CRKN is pleased to announce that the Departmental Letterbooks, part of Library and Archives Canada’s (LAC) RG 10 fonds, have been fully transcribed through CRKN and LAC’s intelligent character recognition (ICR) pilot project. This project, launched in 2022 to transcribe handwritten materials […]
You might have heard about Wiley pulling hundreds of ebooks out of ProQuest Ebook Central in August, just before classes started. The removals included popular textbooks. Wiley didn’t offer the ebooks for sale in any other way, so instructors and library workers were left scrambling to choose different textbooks, or […]