Analysis & opinion

Jisc report puts focus on UK research infrastructure assets

24 May 2023

"Optimising the UK’s university research infrastructure assets" brings together a range of perspectives, says Victoria Moody

Simon Epstein and Emma Watkins

Data management

Using data to make complex decisions, fast

18 May 2023

Simon Epstein and Emma Watkins describe how a society publisher unlocked author insights and improved workflows

Sabine Louet believes bite-size research can now be accessible anywhere

AI summarisation to impact research productivity

10 May 2023

As the fuss over GPT-style technology continues, scientists are now fully aware that the future of research productivity will depend on Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, a different kind of AI, called extractive summarisation and based on natural language processing, will bring a much-needed time-saving tool to authors. Such a tool preserves the integrity of the evidence without ‘hallucinations’.

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03 May 2023

Tricia Miller and Andrea Lopez explain how the model benefits everyone in the scholarly community

Library news

'Efficiency is the buzzword for libraries today'

03 May 2023

Victoria Suslak explores the various choices that libraries have when acquiring content

Open access

UKRI's open access policy, a year on

02 May 2023

Caren Milloy outlines the policy’s impact and the work that made it happen

Statistics, Library usage

Granular stats drill deeper into content usage

28 April 2023

Libraries can get more granularity from COUNTER reports, thanks to a recently adopted analytics tag – while community-agreed standards help protect privacy, says Rob Scaysbrook