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 […]
ProQuest has introduced a new, integrated AI Research Assistant feature on its database platform. To date this is only available through ProQuest One Business. From ProQuest: ProQuest One Business LibGuide: We have added a ProQuest Research Assistant section to the LibGuide with educational videos. ProQuest Research FAQs: This support article […]
The new A-Z Databases platform allows for the creation of sublists, and we’ve added a link to a separate list of the OA databases on our A-Z list (thanks Jane!):
From Forbes: “A group of academic scientists has brought a federal antitrust lawsuit against six publishers of academic journals alleging they engaged in a conspiracy that allows them to sustain huge profits at the expense of scientific progress.”
From Nature: “Artificial-intelligence developers are buying access to valuable data sets that contain research papers — raising uncomfortable questions about copyright”