The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments.Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks.A...

Crossref have been asking for feedback on their new member practices. Here is what I have sent them:

A frequent discussion that I have had with an academic colleague, but also with various team members at Knowledge Commons and also with those at OLH, pertain...

A gentle visual guide to how a statistical mark hides inside generated text, and what erases it.

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

The courtrooms didn't stop AI companies from buying paper books in bulk, scanning them for training data, and destroying them. So authors moved the battle

An oral history conducted about the Library Information Access System (LIAS) developed at Penn State University Libraries between 1979 and 1999. These interviews were conducted by Ruth Kitchin Tillman...

President Milei’s plans to turn my country into an anarchic tech paradise makes him just the latest character in the nation’s long history of chancers and dictators, writes Uki Goñi

The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators

The US Supreme Court decided that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore – with major implications for EU-US Data Transfers.

The future of scholarly communication will not be determined by how powerful AI becomes, but by whether the research community remains clear about the purpose those capabilities are meant to serve and...

Learn how to improve password manager adoption with rollout steps, onboarding tips, and policies your team can actually follow.

Building robust citation and attribution into generative AI systems are foundational to usage, credit and trust. We need to expect more from AI.

European Parliament just dropped Google Search. It's a start. Here's why your business can't afford to wait for Europe's institutions to catch up.

Marathon day. An early train into London, then an unfamiliar journey across a race-disrupted city from Paddington to Blackheath, all in good time for the start of the race. I was nervous, of course…

This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.

Learn how HOTP, TOTP, and OTP compare: Discover their differences across security, usability, and accessibility to find the best one for you.

Written by: Olivia Guest, Marcela Suarez, Barbara C. N. Müller, Edwin van Meerkerk, Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg, Ronald de Haan, Andrea Reyes Elizondo, Mark Blokpoel, Natalia Scharfenberg, Annelies ...

40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

Paris-based Mistral wanted to develop a top-tier AI model to rival OpenAI and Anthropic. That didn’t work out. But it turns out lots of folks don’t care if the AI is bleeding edge – as long as it wasn...

Find out updates and new features you can expect for the Proton ecosystem in the Spring and Summer of 2026.

Today's guest post explains the new data space pilot, which will be the focus of the upcoming BISG/SSP webinar on May 12, 2026.

This guide puts complex legal concepts and terms into understandable language for those librarians and library professionals without legal training.

We’re excited to announce a new data citation API endpoint and are seeking your feedback. The new service makes existing data citation relationships in our metadata available, thereby surfacing this p...

What is an email address, really? Discover how it works, what makes one valid, and simple tips to keep yours private.

Give your child a safer start online. Reserve a private, secure, no-ads address with Proton Mail that stays sealed until your child is ready.

Learn about ISO 27000: what they are, why they matter for security and compliance, and how to implement ISO-aligned credential controls.

We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

Timothy Lee (center) of Macau University of Science and Technology was named editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Tourism Research in 2023. On Feb. 18, a researcher in Italy sent a disgr…

PIDfest is back and you're invited! Find out more in today's post by Alice Meadows about PIDfest 2026 (October 27-29, Leiden, The Netherlands).

An experiment in language change

New research from Proton shows that Europeans want to shed US tech dependence and build tech sovereignty for Europe. Read the full report.

Learn more about the aims and priorities of the Octopus platform, which is designed to positively disrupt research culture.

Image generated by Google Gemini I had grown weary of the constant stream and abuse of spam invitations to submit manuscripts to journals and to attend fake conferences on the other side of the wor…

Martin Paul Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck, University of London.

When code gets cheap operational excellence wins. Anyone can build a greenfield demo, but it takes engineering to run a service.

Knowledge Futures mission is to make information useful.

Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.

Abduladheem Turki Jalil Researchers change the name they publish under for many reasons, most of which aren’t fodder for a Retraction Watch story. Trying to skirt a publishing ban is one that is. A…

It’s the time of year to ponder self-improving resolutions, and I find myself consulting one of my favourite 87-year-olds: the visionary author Stewart Brand. But if Brand is right, perhaps self-im…