The Bosom Peril and Counterfeit Consciousness at Wiley Publishing

The following article was recently published in the Wall Street Journal:

Subbaraman, N. (2024/05/14/, 2024 May 14). Flood of fake science forces multiple journal closures; Wiley to shutter 19 more journals, some tainted by fraud. Wall Street Journal (Online) Retrieved from https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/flood-fake-science-forces-multiple-journal/docview/3054420392/se-2

WHSLA Members should have online access to the fulltext through Badgerlink at the link above.

In case you were wondering why this long-standing publisher is not what it used to be, it may have something to do with it's recent acquisition of Hindawi, a long-time known predatory publisher. The rash of retractions and fake science has caught up to them.

Here's my favorite quote from the article talking about "tortured phrases":

The extent of the paper mill problem has been exposed by members of the scientific community who on their own have collected patterns in faked papers to recognize this fraud at scale and developed tools to help surface the work.

One of those tools, the "Problematic Paper Screener," run by Guillaume Cabanac, a computer-science researcher who studies scholarly publishing at the Université Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier in France, scans the breadth of the published literature, some 130 million papers, looking for a range of red flags including " tortured phrases ."

Cabanac and his colleagues realized that researchers who wanted to avoid plagiarism detectors had swapped out key scientific terms for synonyms from automatic text generators, leading to comically misfit phrases. "Breast cancer" became "bosom peril"; "fluid dynamics" became "gooey stream"; "artificial intelligence" became "counterfeit consciousness." The tool is publicly available.

WHSLA Professional Development grant winner - William White, Health Sciences Librarian at UWM

Congratulations to William White, this year's WHSLA Professional Development Grant recipient! Will is the Health Sciences Librarian at UW-Milwaukee. 

Thanks to everyone who put their names in the hat and Dora Davis, WHSLA Professional Development Coordinator for facilitating the grant process.

Get to know the 2024 recipient, Will White.

A look at NLM's Herb Garden

Did you know NLM has an herb garden? According to their site, "Started in 1976 as part of National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Bicentennial celebration, the herb garden at the National Library of Medicine showcases the healing power of nature at its very richest. Located directly in front of the main Library building (38) across the oval driveway, the garden's lush variety of herbs captures the endless curative, aromatic, and useful qualities that made these healing plants integral to the development of modern medicine."

Take a look... 

Why Can't Healthcare be Better and Cheaper?

Authors Jim and Bob Rebitzer ask, "Why can't healthcare be better and cheaper?" (Live from The Players 2024 Championship)

From The RadioAdvisory Podcast, May 14, 2024.

The book on Amazon:

Public Libraries Under Attack: Last Week with John Oliver

Public Libraries Under Attack: Last Week with John Oliver

In case you haven't been paying attention, our public and school libraries are under attack.  

John Oliver explains  ...   and where those challenges are coming from.  

I was pleased to see that my own local public library has both a Freedom-to-Read and a Library Bill of Rights statement on its website, explaining that parents have the right to limit what their own kid reads, but not to remove content for everyone else.   

WHSLA at MLA '24 - let us know if you are presenting

If you're presenting at the upcoming MLA '24 meeting in Portland, please let us know. We'd like to shine a light on WHSLA members presenting at MLA24. 

ICYMI: After a 75-year absence, MLA is coming to back to the Badger State in 2026! 

https://www.mlanet.org/page/past-and-future-meetings

Using PubMed Evidence-Based Practice: 30 min. Tutorial

The Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice tutorial is available from the PubMed Online Training page on the NLM Web site. 

This tutorial was created to help clinicians including nurses and allied health professionals develop a clinical question using the PICO framework and efficiently find relevant biomedical literature using PubMed. 

The tutorial was designed to be completed in less than 30 minutes. 

The course includes scenarios, try-it exercises and additional training.  

     > This would be a great item to share with nurses and other busy clinicians because it's only a 30-min. time investment.  

     > This replaced the PubMed for Nurses Tutorial released a few years ago.  

How to Love Your Daughter [book review]

 Thank you to Robert Koehler for this book review. Listen to a sample of the audiobook here. 

PubMed Features to Save Your Time

 

Knapp M. PubMed features to save your time. J Hosp Librarianship. 2024;24(1):1-9. doi: 10.1080/15323269.2023.2291284. Epub 2023 Dec 7. PMID: 38645880; PMCID: PMC11029388.

A brand new article was recently published in The Journal of Hospital Librarianship by the NNLM's Molly Knapp, highlighting some of the time-saving features of PubMed including the following:

• Computed Author Sort (aka authorbot)
• PMID search
• Phrase Index Searching
• Phrase searching using proximity search
• Case Studies:
• Show me everything in PubMed with the ultimate cheat code: all[sb]
• Show me ALL the systematic reviews in PubMed
• Why does PubMed ignore my search terms?

Even if all of these features are old hat for WHSLA Members, it's always good to review what's available as far as time-saving features in PubMed. Maybe you'll pick up some new tips and tricks!

The Impact of AI on Information Discovery: From The Scholarly Kitchen

I thought this article might be interested since it applies to current trends with vendors, publishers, and searching.

Hong Zhou, H.B. (2024) The impact of AI on Information Discovery: From Information Gathering to Knowledge Application, The Scholarly Kitchen.    (Accessed: 30 April 2024). 

In the era of generative artificial intelligence, new search tools and applications are emerging ... But even before these developments, we can see how AI can be involved and applied in information discovery to help researchers:

• Multimedia Content Discovery
• Literature Review & Summarization
• Key Research Work and Identification
• Smart Search Understanding
• Recommendations & Personalized News Feed

Start a conversation!  What do you think?

Kellee Selden says: 

Interesting.  I also found the Librarian comments valuable.

AI has been around for years, but now it is becoming more mainstream. I believe we will be seeing it integrated more into our daily personal and professional lives.  My concern is how accurate, reliable and reputable it will be like any of our search engines.

Garbage in, garbage out. 

 

Thank you for sharing.