Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship

Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship

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Some readings I read in 2021 that made me feel like I levelled up

A relook at GetFTR , Libkey, Exlibris Quicklinks, and other linking and authentication technologies

Some more reflections for OA week 2021 - Open Knowledge = Open metadata and Open full-text

A Google Scholar trick - combining citations from multiple items and filtering by keyword in a single search!

Three+one bonus Google Scholar improvements that I wish Google would do.

Academic discovery related news that caught my eye - Google updates, scite citation statement search, Zotero plugin Cita, Lean library integrates with EDS, Summon Primo, Clarivate acquires Proquest

What do we really know about academic search engine optimization (ASEO) and an announcement.

Playing devil's advocate - Why the newly popular literature mapping tools may not be useful for the average researcher

Why open alone is not enough - Microsoft Academic discontinued & Semantic Scholar withdraws hosting of "Open access" papers

Why Open Access definitions are confusing

2 Interesting Scholarly Datasets obtained from web scraping - Open Editors & Open Syllabus

The era of open citations and an update of tools- Citation Chaser, Wikicite addon for Zotero with citation graph support and more

Systematically improving the visibility of your research on social media -Visual abstracts, Video abstracts , Plain language abstracts and more

Aaron Tay's thoughts about academic librarianship

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