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Weekly News Digest
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October 16, 2025 — 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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Altmetric Adds Podcasts as an Attention Source
Digital Science shared the following:In a major step forward for tracking the real-world impact of research, Digital Science ... announces that Altmetric has added a new attention source: Podcasts. Altmetric is the first in the world to include podcasts among its measures of research impact. Podcasts will now be reflected in the distinctive Altmetric Badges—appearing as a purple color—as well as in Altmetric Attention Scores, with more detail displayed in Altmetric Explorer. For more information, read the press release.
Frontiers Introduces an AI-Powered Data Management Service
Frontiers launched Frontiers FAIR² Data Management, “the world’s first all-in-one, AI-powered service for research data,” to solve the problem that “[f]or every 100 datasets created, around 80 remain in the lab, 20 are shared but rarely reused, fewer than two meet FAIR standards, and only one typically drives new findings.”Frontiers explains, “Designed to transform how data is shared so it is reusable and credited, [the new service] brings together curation, compliance checks, AI-ready packaging, peer review, an interactive portal, certification, and lifetime hosting in a single workflow—ensuring that research funded today delivers faster breakthroughs in health, sustainability, and technology tomorrow.” For more information, read the news item.
Lucidea Posts Interview With ASIS&T Executive Director to Discuss SLA Merger
Lauren Hays writes the following in “Merger Update: How SLA Members Can Get Involved With ASIS&T” for the Think Clearly blog:Lydia Middleton is the Executive Director of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T). I interviewed her in July about ASIS&T as merger talks with the Special Libraries Association (SLA) were underway. Now that the merger is approved and official, I spoke with her again about what is to come and how SLA members can get involved with ASIS&T. For more information, read the blog post.
Kortext Obtains Full Ownership of Talis From Sage
Sage announced the following:Kortext, a global leader in digital content, library, and learning solutions, has acquired Talis—a platform that bridges the library’s resources with academic curricula—from Sage. … This strategic move enhances Kortext’s position as a key provider of library solutions by simplifying and enabling seamless discovery for educators and learners looking for course content. … Under Kortext’s leadership, Talis will enhance its core features, expand compatibility with library systems, and benefit from ongoing investments in AI. A customer communication process will begin immediately to ensure libraries are kept informed. For more information, read the press release.
The Scholarly Kitchen Explores Three Years of ChatGPT
Phill Jones, a co-founder with responsibility for digital and technology and a principal consultant at MoreBrains Consulting Cooperative, writes the following in “Three Years After the Launch of ChatGPT, Do We Know Where This Is Heading?” for The Scholarly Kitchen blog:ChatGPT has changed the way we think about generative AI, both as a sector and as a society, with its accessible, conversational interface that enables anybody with a web browser to interact with it. In other words, it took the progress that computer scientists have been making for decades and made it directly visible to the public. … As with any innovation, there was both excitement and skepticism in those early days. There were, and still are, strong concerns around attribution, the risk to copyright, hallucinations, low-quality content overload (aka slop); some even saw it as an existential threat to creativity itself. I acknowledge these risks, but I’m not overly concerned. Fear of risk shouldn’t prevent us from experimenting and innovating, instead they should be carefully monitored and mitigated. For more information, read the blog post.
GetFTR and Web of Science Integrate for Better Research Discoverability
Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) is now integrated with Clarivate’s Web of Science. As a result, “GetFTR’s real-time entitlement checks enable the Web of Science to add full-text indicators, and smart links will be available within the Web of Science platform, helping researchers discover and access trusted full-text content more efficiently. The partnership also reflects the growing recognition of GetFTR’s role in the scholarly research ecosystem.” For more information, read the news item.
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