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June 18, 2024 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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HeinOnline Unveils Database of Nominative Reports From the U.K., the U.S., and Ireland
HeinOnline released a new database: Nominative Reports (English, Irish, and American). For the first time, “the most comprehensive collection of rare nominative reports [is] available online from the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the United States. Together, these collections contain nearly three million pages of rare and hard-to-find reports.” Nominative reports documented court decisions in the time before formalized court reporting, beginning in 16th-century England.The database contributes “to the preservation of case law while adding current natural language and artificial intelligence tools to allow researchers to search and explore these documents like they’ve never been able to before.” For more information, read the press release.
Sage Rolls Out New Collections Centered on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Sage introduced Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research, a resource collection that showcases diversity and decolonization principles in research, along with Sage Video: Social Justice, a cross-disciplinary video collection focused on social justice perspectives and moments around the world. “The collections highlight the impact of social and behavioral science in addressing critical issues and promoting social justice,” Sage notes. They cover areas such as Indigenous research methods, disability studies, race and ethnicity studies, gender, and sexuality. For more information, read the press release.
ByWater Solutions Begins Webinar Series on the Aspen Discovery System
ByWater Solutions is hosting Power in Partnerships, a new webinar series focused on the Aspen discovery system. The first webinar is Event Integration With Aspen Discovery, to be held July 29 at 2 p.m. EDT. “One of the main goals of Aspen is to make all of your library’s content (including the programs you put so much effort into creating!) available to users through various innovative functions. The Events Integration is just another way to bring your content to your users,” ByWater Solutions notes. The series will run through December 2024.For more information and the rest of the schedule, read the news item.
GetFTR Opens Its Retraction and Errata Service to All Partner Organizations
GetFTR expanded its Retraction and Errata service so that “partners, such as discovery resources, Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs) and publishers that have integrated GetFTR on their reference lists, [are able] to display a notification button at the point of discovery, indicating if an article has been updated or retracted,” GetFTR shares. “This crucial information, sourced from Crossref and Retraction Watch, will be available for all articles where retraction or errata information is found. This now includes content from publishers who do not participate in GetFTR, and it will be displayed even if the researcher does not have access to the full content.”For more information, read the press release.
Springer Nature Introduces the AskAdis AI-Based Chat Interface for the Pharmaceutical Industry
Springer Nature developed a new conversational chat interface called AskAdis that is based on the drug development intelligence database AdisInsight. “Off-the-shelf LLMs (large language models) are often inaccurate, incomplete or unreliable as they draw on all the content on which they have been trained to generate answers. Using Generative AI, AskAdis has been trained on only relevant already validated content, information and data[,] making results more accurate and reliable,” Springer Nature notes.For more information, read the press release.
FactSet Offers a Suite of Solutions Tied to Leveraging Artificial Intelligence
Financial data and analytics company FactSet created a “suite of solutions designed to enable technologists and developers to build proprietary workflows and accelerate their AI-powered innovations.” The suite is a “three-pronged offering to advance the innovative development of AI-powered workflows that meet the needs of financial professionals across firms.” The offering “combines packaged data, a conversational API, and an AI partner program,” the press release notes.“By expanding FactSet’s solutions to offer our breakthrough, technology-forward data package and conversational experience, we are optimizing the data selection process and scaling the development that drives technologists. We’ve had great success empowering our developers to accelerate GenAI value creation and we will continue to release technology to our client developers that allows them to build and release value faster,” says Kate Stepp, FactSet’s CTO. For more information, read the press release.
ProQuest Research Assistant Gets an Update
ProQuest published a blog post stating the following:In February, ProQuest, part of Clarivate, launched a beta version of the AI-powered ProQuest Research Assistant in ProQuest One Literature, setting a new standard for the responsible use of AI as a research partner for students. Now, ProQuest is expanding ProQuest Research Assistant with new AI-driven capabilities that power more effective and insightful interactions with full-text documents. Plus, it enriches search capabilities, so that even novice researchers can craft effective queries. The robust new features will become available beginning in September within the ProQuest One suite of products. Patti Ginnis, Vice President, Product Management at Clarivate, said: ‘We’re working with our community of librarians and users to introduce AI in ways that solve real user problems; they address common trouble spots for researchers and students, delivering more targeted results and guiding them to the critical next steps and important insights.’ For more information, read the blog post.
The New York Times Gives Black Librarians Their Due
Jennifer Schuessler writes the following in “How Black Librarians Helped Create Generations of Black Literature” for The New York Times:[I]ncreasingly, scholars are … uncovering the important role of the women who often ran … libraries, where they built collections and—just as important—communities of readers. … Many were among the first Black women to attend library school, where they learned the tools and the systems of the rapidly professionalizing field. On the job, they learned these tools weren’t always suited to Black books and ideas, so they invented their own. At times, they battled overt and covert censorship that would be familiar in today’s climate of rising book bans and restrictions on teaching so-called divisive concepts. But whether they worked in world-famous research collections or modest public branch libraries, these pioneers saw their role as not just about tending old books but also about making room for new people and new ideas. For more information, read the article.
Ten National Funders From Africa Are Now Indexed in Dimensions
Digital Science’s press, PR, and social manager David Ellis shared the following:African research is receiving a major visibility boost with the indexing of 10 national funders in Dimensions, the world’s largest linked research database. This project is a collaboration with Digital Science, the Africa PID Alliance (APA), the Association of African Universities (AAU), the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), and the Research Organization Registry (ROR). … ‘Indexing and linking their data in Dimensions allows these African national funders to increase transparency around their research investments, demonstrate the impacts and outcomes of funded projects, facilitate new regional and global collaborations, inform strategic funding priorities through insights on research trends, and amplify Africa’s overall research contributions on the international stage,’ [Joy Owango, executive director of TCC Africa and project lead at the APA,] said. For more information, read the news item.
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