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The article provide examples and instruction on how to make acquisitions process of libraries more efficient with the use of technology-driven acquisitions model as compared to paper-driven acquisitions model. Topics discussed include retrieving the desired record in the cataloging module, using Google tools for filing, tracking and filtering and implementing time-saving strategies at one time.

The article evaluates six cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) research tools using the REACT framework, assessing their relevancy, ease of use, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) commitment, currency, and transparency. It provides detailed reviews of citation-based literature mapping tools (Litmaps, Connected Papers, ResearchRabbit) and text-extraction tools (Elicit, scite, Consensus), offering insights into their effectiveness and usability for academic research.

The article focuses on the reconsideration of paper-based knowledge management (KM), acknowledging past successes and advocating for a more selective approach to data accumulation. Topics discussed include the limitations of digital KM, the need for quality over quantity, and the importance of human oversight in assessing data integrity and relevance.

The article reports on the author's initiative to design and share fun, paper-based math games for diverse age groups, utilizing tools like LibreOffice Calc, and details the evolution of the Pairs Math Game, its varied versions, and potential uses in educational and community settings. The author also emphasizes promoting playful conversations about numbers and fostering a sense of agency in students to invent their math questions.

The article explores Conal Conference Alerts (conferencealerts.com) allows for searching academic conferences by topic (social sciences and humanities, mathematics and statistics, physical and life sciences, business and economics) and by country. AllConferences.com (www.allconferences.com) is a global online conference directory that includes conferences, conventions, trade shows, exhibits, expos, and seminars. It is searchable by category, date, country, and venue.

The article focuses on the challenges and complexities associated with citations in research papers. It highlights the importance of citations in validating information and guiding further research, but acknowledges the confusion and difficulties students face in understanding different citation styles and formats. It also discusses the role of citation generators in helping students create accurate citations and mentions several popular citation generator tools.

The article offers information on the intersection of AI, research, and its impact on scientific literature. Topics include concerns about the ethical implications of AI-generated content, fraudulent research papers created by paper mills, and the increasing retractions of scientific literature. The author reflects on the potential consequences of the rise in spurious publications on research impact metrics and raises concerns about research integrity.

The article offers information on the legendary Eugene Garfield who set out to "propose a bibliographic system for science literature that can eliminate the uncritical citation of fraudulent, incomplete, or obsolete data by making it possible for the conscientious scholar to be aware of criticisms of earlier papers." It highlights that Garfield goes so far as to advocate for a metric that never gained much traction: the lifetime-citation count per paper.

The article explores Clarivate's Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) proposed a new Collaborative CNCI (Collab-CNCI) indicator to analyze the credit authors of academic papers receive via citations. In its report, "Making It Count: Research Credit Management in a Collaborative World," ISI confirms that highly collaborative papers can distort summary results at a national and institutional level.

The article reports that research reproducibility, getting consistent results with the same set of data, code, and method described in the original research paper, is central to trustworthy scientific research. It reports that to address the growing need of research reproducibility, scholarly publishers have implemented features to access data, code, and experiments in their scholarly publication platforms.

The article offers information on a nation's economy is described in numbers, but academicians use words to explain those numbers. It discusses that Scholarly papers forecasting the state of the economy are more than equally matched with opinion pieces in the daily press that also attempt to forecast the state of the economy; and mentions that EconLit, the primary database covering the scholarly literature of economics, is produced by the American Economic Association (AEA).

The article offers a preview of multiple products, including ABBYY Vantage, a platform that uses artificial intelligence to comprehend and interpret documents from Abbyy Inc.; Access Unify, which assists in managing hybrid paper and digital environments from Access Corp., and Data Harmony, for analyzing text content, and enhance search capabilities, from Access Innovations.

The article offers information on the Computer Library industry as of June 2022. Topics discussed include Springer Nature is set to secure a transitional OA agreement for Nature, Nature research journals, and Palgrave journals; Elsevier has entered into an agreement to acquire Interfolio, which provides advanced faculty information solutions for higher education; and Aries Systems Corp. and Figshare have entered a partnership to promote and facilitate sharing the open data from academic papers.

The article offers library industry news. Topics include that the U.S. federal government stopped using the DUNS Number to uniquely identify entities, and have started using the Unique Entity ID; and that the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) released Jxiv, the first full-fledged preprint server in Japan that makes unpublished, pre-reviewed papers (preprints) openly available.

The article explores Most companies are failing to realize payoff from their voice of the customer (VOC) investment. This paper is meant to help CX leaders understand what is causing all the disappointment in their VOC programs, what are the critical dimensions for strong VOC success, and how to fix their VOC programs to deliver exceptional customer experience.

The article reports that eLife, will no longer make accept/reject decisions after peer review. Instead, every paper will be published as a reviewed preprint, which combines the manuscript with eLife's peer reviews and a brief assessment of the findings' significance and evidence quality.

The article focuses on ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot developed by OpenAI. Topics discussed include the widespread impact and versatility of ChatGPT, which has been used for various purposes, including generating text-based content, writing papers, creating advertising campaigns, and even tackling computer code.

The article discusses the potential of traditional marketing communication. According to Joe Karasin, head of growth marketing at CircleIt, has plans to try some traditional communication strategies during Q4 2022 and Q1 2023 by placing advertisements in nondigital publications and billboards. Tony Gilbert, communications officer at the nonprofit Masonic Medical Research Institute, tells that people respond positively to good old-fashioned paper letters.

The article highlights the author's favorite open search tools for finding open arts and humanities content. Topics discussed include the JURN search tool, which discovers the full text of open journals in the arts and humanities; the sister tool of JURN called GRAFT, which searches the world's academic repositories, and the extremely poor semantic interpretation of queries resulting in subsequent slowing down of Paperity, a multidisciplinary aggregator of OA journals and papers.

The article discusses that the punch line in the strip harkens back to when Richard Nixon was able to estimate a "collectable" value of his prepresidential personal papers and claim a charitable donation for a $500,000 deduction off of his tax bill.

The article discusses a webinar titled "Conquering ECM Challenges in the Modern Enterprise" hosted by KMWorld and sponsored by Access and Hyland. Topics include challenges posed by legacy paper and digital records, the need to modernize content strategy, and the solutions presented by Access and Hyland. The webinar featured several notable speakers including Matt Hillery, chief technology officer at Access; and Sean Baird, director of product marketing at Hyland.

The article discusses various developments associated with the library industry. It is noted that a new subscription model, Kanopy PLUS, which gives public libraries unlimited access to curated collections at a fixed price, has been started by Kanopy. It is noted that the Library of Congress has added content from New Hampshire, the historical digitized newspapers collection now comprises papers from all 50 states.

The article offers information about the discrepancies associated with the size and value of the global contact center outsourcing market. It mentions that contact center outsourcing market as on an upward trajectory and will only continue to grow as companies look to cut costs amid the economic climate.