Maintaining Access
Most readers have no idea of the long-term and collaborative efforts that are made by committed industry players to provide us access to literature, science publications, etc. from various sources and libraries. The good news is that access is increasing by the day. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting news to us in their article, “Monographs, Transparency…
Read MoreChallenging Yourself, Literally
By now everyone has likely read or heard about the 4-year old girl from Gainesville, Georgia who has read more than 1,000 books already in her young life. This is outstanding, especially when you compare it to a typical American will read about four books in one year. Even more serious readers only make it to…
Read MoreIndustry Giants Are Going All In On Graphic Databases
Graph databases are no longer the new guy on the block. They continue to move into mainstream enterprise operations and some big name vendors are making their mark. This interesting news came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Enterprises Move to Graph Databases.” Oracle and Teradata are both examples of major companies that have implemented…
Read MoreIllegal Metadata Program Revealed in Canada
According to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), they don’t know the number of Canadians that were caught up in an illegal metadata program that operated for almost a decade. This interesting news came to us from The Star out of Toronto in their article, “CSIS doesn’t know how many Canadians were snared in unlawful data program.”…
Read MoreImproving the Semantic Search
Scientific papers just got a boost. Semantic Scholar is a search engine that reads the literature on its own, picking out topics and influences, ranking citations, and making it easier to find exactly what you’re looking for. TechCrunch brought this news to us in their article, “Scientists gain a versatile, modern search engine with the AI-powered Semantic…
Read MoreReturning Control to Librarians
A new independent provider of cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solutions has launched an online resource access management tool for libraries. Knowledgespeak brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “LibLynx to launch LibLynx Gateway – a new e-resource access solution for Libraries.” LibLynx Gateway uniquely combines an access and authentication infrastructure…
Read MoreTaxonomist Needed in D.C.
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, metadata, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are…
Read MorePublishing and Peer Review
Many articles have been written about the validity of published scientific papers, and not all are about Sci Hub. This problem affects many areas of science, such as medicine, psychology and global warming. It makes you wonder where peer review fits into the process. This interesting topic was brought to our attention by American Thinker in their article, “The…
Read MorePredicting Behavior
We have all experienced it. You are browsing a retail website but you don’t purchase anything. Later, the same day or after a week, you are on Facebook or another non-retail website and the ads that pop up in your feed or on the side are the exact items you were pondering to purchase. No,…
Read MoreThe Knowledge to Know
Cognition is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and it is usually associated with rote memory. This is usually explained simply as knowing who, what, where, and when. But factual knowledge is not the only knowledge that is beneficial to know. The Manilla Times brought this news to us in their article “The taxonomy…
Read More