News

In 2026, NSF and NIH both replaced the researcher-written DMP narrative with a short structured form. Discover what changed, and why this shift still matters for researchers at institutions without DMP mandates.

Researchers can now turn on MCP connectors for Scite and Consensus inside general AI tools such as ChatGPT or Claude. Before relying on the results, it helps to know what MCP adds and how that relates to RAG.

A practical reading of publisher and journal data availability policies for researchers preparing manuscripts and librarians supporting open research.

This June, as storms battered Hong Kong, Gary Lee, Research Support Librarian at HKUST who commutes daily across the New Territories from Yuen Long, started mapping. Read this post to learn how Gary used AI tools and public data to build an interactive 3D visualization of rainfall patterns and flood blackspots.

Guest Post: A new ML pipeline overcomes the unique challenges of Chinese logographic script to reconstruct individual life trajectories across centuries of administrative records.