[blogged] The Petrol Tank for AI Discovery Might be Running Dry as Publishers close access to scholarly content such as abstracts due to AI incentives aarontay.substack.com/p/the-petrol... - an analysis of OpenAlex abstract coverage changes for Elsevier & Springernature

"The problem, she says, is these companies are rushing products to market, making the skills academic librarians are trying to teach students and researchers to use obsolete." www.404media.co/librarians-a...

"It took her nearly two decades to find a permanent academic position. She found occasional work as a visiting professor, filling in for someone on leave for a year or two. She earned grants to fund her research... but she was often living on unemployment benefits"

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s...

Just in case there was any doubt, ChatGPT 5.0 still makes up completely random citations that don't exist and should not be used for literature search.

Tortured phrases (arxiv.org/abs/2107.0...) identified in an #IEEE paper (ieeexplore.ieee.org/...)

My Pubpeer concerns: pubpeer.com/publicat...

Updated edition (August 2025) of the coverage table of the major bibliometric databases (millions of records).
GS reindexing period

Today's MetaROR paper discusses "the use of document data networks to control the topic clustering of a science map" with "rigorous methodology" & "careful presentation".

Reviewers consider it "a valuable contribution to the literature", and provide the authors detailed feedback.

👇 Read on MetaROR

Check out the freshly launched TSOSI (Transparency to Sustain Open Infrastructure) website and take a peek at the list of PCI supporters! https://tsosi.org/entities/ba72cfcc-5d15-46ca-8685-151c3960a2a0

🎙️ Short Talk Session 2 is now live at #WOOC2025:
🔍Gernot Deinzer on linking cost data to open metadata
🤖 Parth Sarin on LLMs for better citation parsing
📚 Zoe Wake Hyde on aligning book metadata across platforms