Resources

Funding for the CREC Working Group as well as for research at the University of Illinois’ Reducing the Inadvertent Spread of Retracted Science (RISRS) project, which aided Working Group deliberations and decisions, was generously provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The beta is intended to create efficiencies for researchers working within EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) and EBSCOhost®. Beta testers are exploring two features — AI Insights, which will generate a short list of insights from full-text articles, and natural language search, which allows researchers to conduct a search in their natural language, with user queries honoured as questions in search.

Predatory journals are an international problem - Think. Check. Submit. has announced the publication of its short, animated video in Japanese. The video is a powerful and engaging way to help researchers identify trusted publishers for their research.

EBSCO has launched LitBase which offers a curated collection of critical primary texts and secondary literary sources to support research about the most studied authors, poetry, fiction, plays, and creative nonfiction worldwide.

This module brings together a wide range of content from Bloomsbury and Faber & Faber to support studies of the moving image.

Iter Bibliography, published by Iter Press, is an extensive index of more than 1.5 million citations for secondary source materials. The vast collection will appeal to libraries with specialized research needs or those looking to support researchers studying the medieval period and the Renaissance in European history.

As part of the UKSG Innovation Awards funded project to improve the Higher Education Library Technology (HELibTech) site, a new feature has recently been added to the site to help library staff working with technology better understand the current market.

This new toolkit aims to support all those seeking to build a more inclusive editorial and reviewer community. The toolkit recommends practical and relevant actions for editors and publishers to take to create broad representation on editorial boards and to ensure fairness and minimization of bias in the peer review process.

Path to Open, an initiative dedicated to supporting the open access publication of groundbreaking scholarly books, has announced the addition of 300 new titles from 44 university presses in 2024. This expansion includes contributions from nine publishers newly joining the program, further diversifying its global reach.

C4DISC releases the Workplace Equity in Scholarly Communications 2023 Executive Summary, the initial analysis of the 2023 data and free-form comments collected across six continents from 1,755 respondents, 48% more than in 2018.