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Fri, 22 Nov 2024 14:38:00 +0000

How much data should publishers collect?

As academic publishers continue to consolidate power through diverse mergers and acquisitions, librarians need to be better informed about our role in facilitating “academic freedom”.  How are Scopus, ScienceDirect, LexisNexis, Mendeley, SciVal, SSRN, Pure, and Elsevier related?They’re a few of the vast holdings of RELX, a multi-national conglomerate with £3 billion in profit in 2023 (RELX

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Fri, 22 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000

AI and Libraries 5: Student Learning and Generative AI (GenAI)

 A post by Michelle Breen for the AI and Libraries seminar University of Galway, November 2024A walk through any of our libraries observing student behaviours as they work on assignments or a chat to any students currently in third level will reveal the myriad GenAI tools that students are using for their academic work. A 2024 survey by Campus Technology on the use of GenAI by University

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Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000

AI and Libraries 4: Demystifying AI for Researchers

AI promises to change how we do work, including many aspects of how third-level institutions function. This includes research — and research support. In this blog post, Oksana Dereza, author of this guide to AI for Research, delves a bit deeper into demystifying AI, offering ideas on how to support and what to say to the slightly-to-somewhat-more advanced AI user. Oksana is Digital

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