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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 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 discusses the use of called the Collaborative Category Normalized Citation Impact, or Collab-CNCI proposed by Clarivate. Topics include that it has qualities of the research landscape that hinder comparative analysis such as publications with multiple authors and publications with authors from multiple countries.

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 information on increasing trends of genealogy with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. It mentions that Genealogy depends heavily on newspaper research to peel back the many layers of what makes up a life. It discusses that Newspapers.com has claimed to be the largest online newspaper archive.

The article offers information on the responsibilities for engaging the research community, discussions of findings and conclusions online, and responses to comments on social media. It mentions that scholarly communication librarians (SCLs) partner with researchers in the scholarly publication lifecycle; and also mentions researchers are search engines specifically designed to find scientific papers and digital platforms for sharing the data behind the experiments they describe.

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 offers information on tax havens, which are countries or independent areas with minimal or no tax burden used by individuals and corporations to stash their wealth with intention of tax evasion. It discusses the release of Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers comprising documents leaked from Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca. It offers information on research of tax havens including Jersey registry, Cayman Islands registry and OpenCorporates.

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 reports on developments at Thomson Reuters whose products Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and Essential Science Indicators (ESI) are being used for ranking of university research as of November 2014. Topics include the visualization capabilities added to JCR, the upgrades and integration that is in progress as JCR and ESI are released on the InCites platform and made more visible in Web of Science.

The article explores International Conference on Grey Literature to go ahead as an in-person conference in Amsterdam the first week of December 2021. It had the theme of Digital Transformation of Grey Literature: Exploring Next Generation Grey. Many of us were looking forward to being together in OBA (Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam), the central branch of the Amsterdam Public Library.

The article focuses on finding community news in the algorithmic era. Topics inlcude the researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Media and Journalism decided to study the exact penetration of news deserts in the U.S., the loss of community information a dearth of local news coverage can lead to dire consequences, and the result was that some of the most-affected counties, which represent some of the most rural and economically has depressed areas in the U.S. INSETS: WHO OWNS ALGORITHMIC NEWS?;CANARIES IN THE AI COAL MINE.

The article focuses on the latest updates of the search engines like Bing, Google Images and Google Discover. It discusses the testing of features on Google Maps including letting users report a crash, Semantic Scholar also upgrades supplemental content links for research papers, and Google discover putting up features to know news weather and sport scores across the user's location.

The article focuses on digital and researchers, reference management and sharing for digital research management tools. It states that developers and founders created reference management tools for scholars seeking to manage published literature for research purposes. It mentions about QUOSA, which is the technological solution Elsevier offers the drug industry.

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 offers information related to the academic support for scholarship, research libraries, and global publishing. It mentions changes in academic librarianship with literature documenting focused on North America and Europe; scholarly publishing in sub-Saharan Africa to a combination of technological and economic factors. It also mentions that poorly funded institutions can neither finance research projects nor afford many of the important resources upon which scholars rely.

The article highlights a report on expansion of published research articles due to which it increased attention to open data, and opportunities for preprint publishing. Topics discussed include metasearch approach by search engines such as ScienceResearch.com and BioCarian, which is a semantic explorer of biological databases developed at United Arab Emirates University; open access revolution which contributes greatly to the increasing volume of published research.

The article presents several industry news. It discusses that Social network company; Twitter has permanently suspended the account of Sci-Hub. It mentions that DynaMed, EBSCO Information Services' flagship clinical decision support tool, has partnered with Datapharm. It mentions that Factiva introduced a new category of Expert Searches, called Social Topics.

The article focuses on increase in the publication of fake news. Topics discussed include information on withdrawal of scientific papers from publication for a variety of reasons, including fraud and duplicate publication; request forwarded by the regulatory body, such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for correcting financial statements of a company; and importance of skepticism in business research.

The article discusses COVID-19 has overhauled of the process and business of scientific research for the globe. Topics include on February 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) tweeted out the official name of the new virus as COVID-19; and the views of WHO Director General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on infection.

The article focuses on the behavioral self-modification based on how an entity is measured and can lead to unintended consequences, such as gaming the metrics; and mentions that instances of gaming research impact metrics used to artificially inflate the level of impact of a given paper, author, journal, or other entity are well-documented.

The article focuses on the fundamental transformation of research libraries. Topics discussed here include easy availability of complex data management software solutions; and the number of institutional, collaborative, and research repositories for data, dissertations, preprints, and research reports.

The article discusses a twentieth international conference on Grey Literature organized by TextReleas and held on the campus of Loyola University in New Orleans, December 3-4, 2018, had the theme Research Data Fuels and Sustains Grey Literature. Vivian Hutchison, Acting USGS Library Director, U.S. Geological Survey, discussed some of the myriad types of earth and biological sciences data collected by the agency.

The article offers industry related news briefs. Financial Times newspaper partners with :CRUX for knowledge score and reading behavior based suggestions. Elsevier AI Lab opened by Elsevier on the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI). U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission launches Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial technology.

The article explores Alphabet launched a new company called Isomorphic Lab, a commercial venture that aims to reimagine the entire drug discovery process with an AI-first approach. Its overall objective is to model and understand some of the fundamental mechanisms of life. Demis Hassabis will serve as CEO for Isomorphic's initial phase, while remaining as DeepMind CEO.

The article explores I recently taught an online graduate-level research course in which the first assignment called for class members to engage in research design. The students were instructed on how to develop a research problem statement for their chosen topic, which, in most cases, meant producing a single-sentence research question. Out of 25 people in the course, 15 didn't get it at all.

The article discusses information professionals have been essential in the research process, in education as well as in industry. Topics include systemic racism has endemic in higher education, although not intentional; and fascinating study, the Fed uses "panel data covering 118 million homes in the United States, merged with geolocation detail for 75,000 taxing entities.

The article explores Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. announced the launch of VitalLaw, a new and expanded version of the platform formerly known as Cheetah. VitalLaw features a new dashboard that features comprehensive federal and state laws and regulations, including the dates when future laws and regulations will become effective. Primary source content increased by more than 40%.

The article reports on the impact of the conversion of print medical records on the U.S. healthcare industry. Topics include terminology regarding electronic medical records, historical legislative developments on electronic health records, and initiatives as of November 2014 that prompt physicians to move to electronic health records management. Als mentioned are the pros and cons of electronic health records and trends to expect within the next few years.

The article presents an overview of the moves to demystify online processes of researching technical and scientific topics. It mentions top scientific and technical literature databases, tools and the other sources. Moreover, factors that must be considered when selecting technological and scientific grey literature are also mentioned.

The article discusses how scholars for decades have shared their manuscripts with one another prior to peer review to get feedback. It mentions this was generally done in a closed loop so that the material rarely reached the public. It reports that with the web offering opportunities for massively expanded sharing, any number of preprint databases have arisen.

The article offers information related to practical knowledge and information management (KIM). Topics include practical advice for KIM practitioners to share experiences that might help them with the KIM mission; need to address KIM blockers and facilitate seeding content and joining people up, and directing users to resources.

This article is based on a talk I gave at Computers in Libraries in March 2019 (computersinlibraries.infotoday.com/2019/program.aspx#12685). It is not a comprehensive overview of the state of open access (OA)-this isn't possible given that, almost weekly, OA agreements are signed, subscriptions are abandoned, and new models are attempted. Rather, it is a small-scale exploration, via examples from my home institution, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and elsewhere, of two current approaches to moving the scholarly publishing system further toward open-publisher agreements (and disagreements) and academy-owned publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers author's view on the preservation methods throughout history. Topics discussed include some of the methods such as cloud storage size where one feel secure in dumping all of his or her documents whereas civilizations have preserved their history for hundreds and thousands of years dating back to cave paintings in prehuman times. Article also explores preservation practices performed by the film collection management; post digital; and questions on self-preservation.

The article offers the author's insights on the importance of adversarial education. Topics discussed include the social aspects of education, the importance of motivation to students, and the students management. Also mentioned are the importance of librarians to students, the information literacy development, and the relationship of students to professors.

The article announces Facebook and The New York Times have launched an augmented reality (AR) news project. Topics include Holtzbrinck Publishing Group announced the departure of John Sargent as a result of disagreements regarding the direction of Macmillan; and the views of the new Register of Copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter, on policy.

The article offers information on the American Library Association's Midwinter (ALAMW) conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from January 24–27, 2020. Topic include create a content set based on the newspapers, journals, dissertations, theses, primary sources, and other ProQuest content; and then leave; and involve discussion groups, committee meetings, and exhibits.

The article focuses on the difference in the meaning and scope between digitization, digitalization and digital transformation for libraries. It discusses how digitization is essentially conversion of analog to digital format of the database, while digitalization which includes automation of the business processes and digital transformation hinting at changing the corporate culture to a digital business transformation.

The article focuses on freedom-to-operate (FTO) search which aims to provide patent documents to a patent attorney needed to render an FTO opinion. It discusses three steps to develop a clear search strategy which include learning like an inventor, thinking like a prosecuting patent attorney, and strategizing like a patent searcher.

The article offers information on ethical aspects and uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in different industries. Topics discussed include the use of AI in court sentencing, AI principles and biases, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) adopted by the European Union for regulation of personal information collection, use and storage.

The article reviews several web sites that provide statistics and data for ebooks including Aptara (aptaracorp.com/resources/category/ebook-surveys), Book Industry Study Group (bisg.org), and Bowker Market Research (bookconsumer.com).

The article focuses on development of KoBoToolbox which is an open source mobile data collection tool designed for the international development and humanitarian community, but could have applicability in several library situations. It mentions that development of the tools was led by a team based at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Brigham and Women's Hospital in coordination with the United Nations and International Rescue Committee (IRC). It presents information on KoBoCollect app.

The article offers information on the scholarly publishing field and outlines changes that have been made in this field and discusses the impacts of these changes. Topics discussed include the peer review process, publishing of fake journals and the acquisition of printing company SSRN by company Elsevier. Topics including supporting of open access materials, competition among publishers and the concept of data manipulation are discussed.

The article offers information on the Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the American Library Association (ALA) hosting meetings held at Washington, D.C venue on June 2019. It mentions the Cleveland Convention Center provided a spacious exhibit area for the INFO-EXPO, with the session rooms which made for a convenient and easily navigable space.

The article explores several innovations in scholarly publishing in the U.S. Topics mentioned include Highwire Press' visualized analytics approach to impact factors with its Impact Vizor product, the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the U.S. for ensuring public access to published articles, and the Peerage of Science free service for scientific peer review and publishing.

The article discusses the importance of maintaining a dead man's switch to archives in view of the seizure order and deletion of all digital archives of the newspaper Zaman by Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Topics discussed include factors that drive the disappearance of digital archives including politics, business issues, legal constraints and technological obsolescence. Also mentioned is the case of the disappearance of the digital archive of the "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel."

The article discusses the popularity of crowdfunding as a form of research support. Topics include a definition of crowdsourcing, its use as a successful donation system for 501(c)3 tax-exempt charities and nonprofit organization supporting grassroot causes, and the findings of an annual review of crowdfunding released by Massolution in 2016. Also mentioned are several specialized crowdfunding platforms that have been introduced including Gambitious and Patreon.

he article offers online resources. It discusses that Bantoo (bantoolink.com) is a new digital platform for the Afro- Caribbean market that brings together social media and communication tools with holistic entertainment, new payment options, and ecommerce sites, and Google News has been banned in Russia by Roskomnadzor, the communications regulator.

Information about the International Federation of Library Institutions' 84th annual World Library and Information Congress held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on August 24 to 30, 2018 is presented. Topics include libraries' transformational activities, the advancement and transformation of librarianship, and the importance of knowledge access for personal development. Lecturers include Gerald Leitner, Muy-Cheng Peich, and Trevor Watkins.