Sitemap - 2020 - Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship

Navigating the literature review - metaphors for tasks and tools - How do emerging tools fit in?

Mapping literature to UN SDGs, issues & tools that support it - Scival, Dimensions & Overton.io

Checking for retractions & other quality checks on your manuscript before journal submissions - some free tools scite, Zotero, Pubpeer, Scholarcy and more

The next generation discovery citation indexes - a review of the landscape in 2020

More new search discovery apps - Fatcat, OpenAIRE Research Graph, Open Research Knowledge Graph, Ebsco Discovery Concept Maps, Orion search & more

[OA week 2020] - Creating a free and beautiful auto-updating dashboard for tracking Open Access rates for your institution using Lens.org

The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) launches & why I support it - some reflections

Graph based applications for academic discovery - Citation graphs, PID research graphs, Knowledge graphs and more

Some data discovery updates - Figshare update, Querying PID graphs & DataCite Commons launches

Improving access and delivery of academic content - a survey of current & emerging trends

Open Access Indicators and the importance of optimising your Institutional repository for discovery in Unpaywall

Playing with GPT-3 via AI Dungeon - some Library scenarios and test cases

Why GPT-3 might be the greatest disruption to libraries since Google

3 useful Google related tricks - linking to specific segments, copy from paper to text and search with Google lens

Why openly available abstracts are important - overview of the current state of affairs

More research/literature mapping tools - Connected Papers and CoCites

6 Surprising things I learnt about Microsoft Academic (I)

COVID-19 and Text data mining - a grand experiment around CORD-19 dataset?

2D Search - a better way to visualize and construct complex nested Boolean queries?

5 musings on various things - library spaces, Project thinking, Microsoft academic and more

Libraries and research in a COVID-19 world - resource list and some thoughts

A belated look at Campus Activated Subscriber Access (CASA) or "off-campus access links" in Google Scholar

Estimating the amount of papers published in potentially predatory journals by your institution, country - an attempt

Three research dataset related updates - Dimensions, Google Dataset search and DataCite search

A think out loud post - Showing causality - Randomized control trials, Difference in difference, Instrumental variables & Mendelian Randomization