In late 2018, I gave a talk at OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Conference Meeting 2018 and I gave my thoughts on how I see the game changing for libraries in the years to come based on 3 fundamental trends.

Note: This is based off my contribution to the Upstream blog (plus some major additions)- Aaron Tay is Keeping Tabs on Open Research

Note: This is adapted from an internal talk I gave at my place of work.

If there is one academic discovery search that dominates it is Google Scholar.

Web of Science - Pilot- enhanced cited references In the recent years I have been blogging quite a bit about the idea of citation contexts (or citation intent or citation sentiment or...) in journal articles. While definitions and concepts might vary a little, the idea is not to simply just count citations but also try to figure out what they mean.

Since I started blogging about GPT-3 and language models, interest in this area has continued to increase.

A belated Happy New year to all my readers! The first blog post for the year will be a mixed bag of events or changes that have caught my eye.

As a generalist and dilettante in the field of academic librarianship, I highly appreciate works that

RISK WARNING NOTICE: my understanding of such matters are incomplete, read at your own risk!

It seems like OA week first started as "OA day" in 2007, the year I became a academic librarian.

I recently received an interesting question.