Chatbots for reference services in academic libraries: Applications and trends As academic libraries adapt to evolving to meet changing user expectations and digital service models, chatbots have emerged as a promising tool for e…

Chatbots for reference services in academic libraries: Applications and trends
G Liu, S Liu - The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2026
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What Do We Actually Mean by "AI-Powered Search"? When we say "AI-powered search engine," we're conflating at least four different things—and your concerns about one may not apply to another.

What Do We Actually Mean by "AI-Powered Search"?

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Así será convivir con la IA en 2026 Lo que hoy parece nuevo en 2026 será tan normal como sacar el móvil del bolsillo

Así será convivir con la IA en 2026.

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Yo uso la IA Generativa para mejorar mi trabajo. Básicamente para la búsqueda de fuentes, tácticas, técnicas y procedimientos que luego confirmo manualmente porque sinceramente, no me fío. Bien usada, mejora tú trabajo enormemente. Mal usada, te convierte en un esparcidor de bulos. Pies de plomo 😬

Reproducibility of meta-analytic results in systematic reviews of interventions: meta-research study Objective To determine how often meta-analyses of effects of interventions are reproducible.Design Meta-research study.Setting Systematic reviews with meta-analyses of the effects of health, social, b...

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#Reproducibilidad #Reproducibility #RevisionesSistemáticas #SystematicReviews

Guest Post — What Do College Students Lose When Libraries Are Ignored? - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's guest post argues that academic libraries are an investment in the very foundation of quality scholarship and responsible publishing.

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The external rhythm of an actor in science: New indicators for the science of science When calculating citation indicators, whether it is the total number of received citations or the average citations per paper, we always face the same problem. Namely, that papers published in differe...

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La UE de Von der Leyen favorece el ‘marketing’ de Silicon Valley para invertir en IA, sin base científica La comunidad científica alerta que la inversión multimillonaria en IA de la Unión Europea, anunciada por Ursula von der Leyen, está basada en el ‘marketing’ de las grandes tecnológicas norteamericanas...

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Ya está aquí el Ranking de Leiden.
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Dos ediciones, una basada en Web of Science y otra en OpenAlex.

Can Smaller Large Language Models Evaluate Research Quality? Although both Google Gemini (1.5 Flash) and ChatGPT (4o and 4o-mini) give research quality evaluation scores that correlate positively with expert scores in nearly all fields, and more strongly that c...

¿Pueden los LLM evaluar la calidad de la investigación?

Can Smaller Large Language Models Evaluate Research Quality?
arxiv.org/abs/2508.07196

No, las vacunas no son la causa del autismo Aunque el bulo aún circula, nuevas evidencias siguen descartando la relación entre las inmunizaciones infantiles y el trastorno del espectro autista.

Por mucho que los antivacunas se empeñen o cuando consiguen que al frente de la sanidad de un país como EEUU esté un antivacunas como Robert Kennedy, NO, las evidencias científicas siguen diciendo que NO, que las vacunas no tienen que ver con el autismo.
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#Dinamarca busca defender el rostro, la voz y el cuerpo de sus ciudadanos a través de un peculiar «copyright». Ello, a través de una ley pionera en el mundo que no sólo busca reconocer los derechos de las personas sobre su voz o su imagen, sino también protegerlas de los «deepfake» y la IA

Data Extractions Using a Large Language Model (Elicit) and Human Reviewers in Randomized Controlled Trials: A Systematic Comparison Aim We aimed at comparing data extractions from randomized controlled trials by using Elicit and human reviewers. Background Elicit is an artificial intelligence tool which may automate specific s...

Artículo que compara la extracción de datos por una herramienta de IA (Elicit) con la realizada por revisores humanos.

Data Extractions Using a Large Language Model (Elicit) and Human Reviewers in Randomized Controlled Trials: A Systematic Comparison

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"This serves to increase transparency and (we hope) to build trust in the scientific process."

I'm pretty sceptical about the relationship between transparency and trust, and the fact that one is often seen as a replacement of the other, but this is still a welcome development for metaresearchers.

How similar are field-normalized citation impact scores obtained from OpenAlex and three popular commercial databases? An empirical comparison based on large German universities - Scientometrics OpenAlex is a freely available bibliographic database that can be used for bibliometric studies. In this study, we compared certain field-normalized citation scores (NCS) from OpenAlex with those from...

How similar are field-normalized citation impact scores obtained from OpenAlex and three popular commercial databases? An empirical comparison based on large German universities.

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#TalDíaComoHoy en 1898, nace Felisa Martín Bravo. Primera doctora en física de España, primera mujer en ingresar en el Cuerpo Superior de Meteorología y primera mujer investigadora del Laboratorio de Investigaciones Físicas (LIF).

#WomenInSTEM

He firmado la solicitud enviada por profesionales de bibliotecas a @ernesturtasun.bsky.social y @crueuniversidades.bsky.social para rescindir el contrato con #ExLibris (sistema Alma), con sede en territorio ocupado. Se adjunta mensaje difundido en IWETEL. #bibliotecas #ética #PalestinaLibre

How similar are field-normalized citation impact scores obtained from OpenAlex and three popular commercial databases? An empirical comparison based on large German universities - Scientometrics OpenAlex is a freely available bibliographic database that can be used for bibliometric studies. In this study, we compared certain field-normalized citation scores (NCS) from OpenAlex with those from...

How similar are field-normalized citation impact scores obtained from OpenAlex and three popular commercial databases? An empirical comparison based on large German universities.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

[Blogged] Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/.... They measured 3 types of generalizations, see screenshot (1) to see if LLM summarises were more prone to that compared to original abstracts. (1)

Journal Citation Reports 2025: Addressing retractions and strengthening research integrity | Clarivate From 2025 (2024 data), citations to and from retracted articles will no longer contribute towards the Journal Impact Factor.

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Cómo Google Scholar transformó la investigación.
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Guest Post:  Eight Hypotheses Why Librarians Don’t Like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) - The Scholarly Kitchen AI-assisted search is here, and librarians need to have an honest discussion about how to integrate this new technology into library services. This post explores the parallels to the introduction of d...

¿Nos gusta la IA en las bibliotecas?

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😂😂😂

El estereotipo de cientifica/o en chavales de 14/16

Monólogos con Ciencia.

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Improving peer review of systematic reviews and related review types by involving librarians and information specialists as methodological peer reviewers: a randomised controlled trial Objective To evaluate the impact of adding librarians and information specialists (LIS) as methodological peer reviewers to the formal journal peer review process on the quality of search reporting an...

Improving peer review of systematic reviews and related review types by involving librarians and information specialists as methodological peer reviewers: a randomised controlled trial

Cómo revisar, mejorar y depurar de errores tu perfil público en Google Scholar. Disponible en el repositorio de la UPF una guía que publicamos junto con Lopezosa (UB) y Rovira (UPF) > Google Scholar: SEO académico y curación de contenidos: una guía para autores
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Que las niñas estudien lo que quieran, pero si deciden ser científicas, que encuentren un camino más amigable, con menos obstáculos y respetuoso donde puedan llegar hasta donde se propongan. ¡Feliz día a mis compañeras y a las futuras científicas! 🧑🏻‍🔬
#DiaMujerYNinaEnCiencia #11F

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