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Your annual #medlibs Halloween reminder that "Chocolate"[Mesh] has only been in use since 2017. (OK, to be fair previous indexing is "Cacao"[Mesh] 1963-2016, but STILL.)
Also, "Spirit Possession"[Mesh] is a thing, with only 28 results in PubMed, "Spirit Possession"[tiab] gets 144 results.
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#medlibs #ExpertSearching #SystematicReviews

#medlibs #canmedlibs

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall with framed pictures on it Alt: clip from the US Office of Steve Carell just yelling NOOOOOOOO

#medlibs Me, as every library tech company introduces "AI-powered search" which does not work.

The government shutdown is going to affect the MEDLINE component of all the platforms that hold MEDLINE, right?

#medlibs

Non-USA #medlibs might find this useful www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

More of this please

#medlibs 📚

While I am not the best instructor, I do enjoy the questions I get when At FSCI2025 in the day 2 of my workshop on AI powered search, someone asked me (1)

The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched

[Blogged] The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search - From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
aarontay.substack.com/p/the-ai-pow...

Ended up spending the rest of my day trying to figure this out - when using the combine query option to combine sets, #Scopus gives dramatically less results compared to when you just type it out as one long string yourself. Will probably send them an e-mail today! #medlibs

When exporting results Scopus mentioned a system update going on until 16 June. We also experienced issues with running long search strings, that worked before. So I hope everything will work again now. Haven't re-tested yet.

ScienceDirect AI ScienceDirect AI is enabling researchers to instantly surface, cite, compare & explore trusted evidence deep within peer-reviewed literature.

"Goodbye wasted reading time. Hello relevance." is one way Elsevier is marketing ScienceDirect AI.

I dunno about anyone else, but I find the idea that the time spent reading scholarly literature is a waste depressing, dismissive, and infuriating.

#medlibs

www.elsevier.com/products/sci...

Alt NNLM An archive of videos that have been or we suspect will be removed from the official NNLM YouTube. Not affiliated with NNLM or NLM.

"An archive of videos that have been or we suspect will be removed from the officiaI NNLM YouTube."

#medlibs 📚

youtube.com/@altnnlm?si=...

Libraries and Immigration Enforcement U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the law enforcement division of the Department for Homeland Security (DHS). ICE must operate in accordance with the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, ...

Things to know and do to prepare your library for a visit from law enforcement, including ICE agents.
www.oif.ala.org/libraries-an...

‼️HOT OFF THE PRESS‼️

⭐Updated Responsible AI use in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE) 3-paper collection on OSF: osf.io/fwaud/files/... ⭐

Now includes:
1️⃣Recommendations for practice for the main roles in the ecosystem
2️⃣ Guidance on building & evaluating AI tools
3️⃣Guidance on selecting & using AI tools

Verifying authors’ claims to have conducted a Systematic Review? A checklist for journal editors and peer reviewers - Environmental Evidence Advertisement

Editors and peer reviewers, have you ever wondered if a #SystematicReview meets standards of conduct and reporting? CEE now has a checklist ✅ to help rapidly assess whether authors have adhered to best practices. @biljana-macura.bsky.social @aspullin.bsky.social

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How ‘correct’ should #evidencesynthesis be? How does this change if we add #AI?

Help us understand expectations to inform best practice via this survey
forms.office.com/e/ZwdicYQpjv

Open until 2 Jul, ~35 mins. Part of @WellcomeTrust funded DESTinY

@cochrane.org
@wellcometrust.bsky.social

“Libraries are under attack,” said Brewster Kahle. At our Escaping the Memory Hole event, he made a passionate call to action for defending digital libraries amid cyberattacks, lawsuits, & censorship. 📚💿 🎞️📼🏛️

Full video ➡️ youtu.be/_L1VP8klL_g

#MemoryHole #Preservation #InternetArchive

As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology.

"Despite this dismal success rate, companies are going all-in on AI, driven largely by the belief that everyone else is doing it.

fortune.com/2025/05/09/k...

US embassy asks Flemish universities about diversity policy The United States embassy has sent a survey to several Flemish universities asking about their diversity policies, Flemish Education Minister Zuhal De...

This republican govt is casting its reactionary net wide: Flemish Unis are asked if projects include DEI ..whether they're committed to climate justice, have links w China, Russia, Iran or Cuba..They must confirm they protect women from “gender ideology” www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

What Were the Real Reasons that Trump Fired the Librarian of Congress? The real reasons she was fired are genuinely terrifying.

The Trump administration fired one of the most respected, celebrated, and qualified librarians in America.

The real reasons she was fired are genuinely terrifying.

action.everylibrary.org/haydenaicong...

Library of Congress staff just showed what resistance looks like. After Trump abruptly fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the respected Librarian of Congress, he tried to install Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General, as acting librarian. Staff weren’t having it.

A new memorandum from the Dept of Defense listing specific subject headings to be used within military libraries to flag books with "divisive content." #LCSH #critcat 📚 media.defense.gov/2025/May/09/...

Google Scholar is (still) doing nothing about citation manipulation Detailing yet another citation manipulation scheme in Google Scholar

New blog post in which I:

📈 detail a new citations-for-sale scheme in Google Scholar

🧻 make the 395 fake papers generated through this scheme available as a dataset

💤 chastise Google for failing to maintain the most widely used academic search engine

Enjoy!

reeserichardson.blog/2025/05/06/g...

Hey #medlibs, any of you actively refusing AI summarizing functionalities into your searching platforms, even when they are free? Or are you all just accepting it, even when it sucks?

The solution proposed by generative AI boosters is to devote more and more class time to learning about their product, its uses, its limits (if any) — and less and less to the substance, the subject matter of the course.

Solutions, problems — what’s the difference? None, as long as you’re using AI.

En voorkomen dat onze eigen studenten/onderzoekers hetzelfde gaan doen doordat we gaan tolereren dat AI summarizing tools hun overstelpen via onze databanken. 🫠🙈

Gaaaahhh. Of interest to #medlibs ...so happy we pay so much to publishers for high quality work like this!