In this week's post, we present a roundup of a diverse range of topics and events from the International Open Access Week held in October 2023.

Crossref's recent acquisition of the Retraction Watch data will enhance the quality, transparency, and completeness of metadata on retractions in academic publications. In this post, we present some of our preliminary analysis.

In 2018, a pressing issue emerged at the campus canteen: food waste. With trays piling up with uneaten food, the question loomed: "With all the technology available to us, can we curb food waste on campus?"

How can researchers read and skim papers more effectively? This question prompted the team at Semantic Scholar to develop an AI-powered application called Semantic Reader. In this post, let's see how it works.

Last year we blogged about Twitter for scholarly communication. Yet soon after in Oct 2022, Elon Musk took over Twitter, leading a wave of #TwitterMigration. How did #LeaveTwitter work? Where are the users now?

Interested in doing text analysis but daunted about where to start? Fear not! Two new library resources, Gale Digital Scholar Lab and Constellate, offer tools, data resources, and user-friendly interfaces to help you begin.

We are thrilled to announce our Researchers’ Series Special Topics 2023 in November. This symposium brings together three experts to explore the transformative power of AI in research discovery and scholarly communication.

Exciting series of digital humanities tutorials awaits! In this post, discover three newly published tutorials designed to help you learn Python from scratch.

Last week we introduced nine new SciTech and business books authored or edited by HKUST faculty and researchers. In this post, we feature the eleven new books in the fields of humanities and social sciences.

From August 2022 to July 2023, scholars from HKUST have published a total of 20 books, as indicated by our Institutional Repository.