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Advancing Open Science with CORE: Insights from the CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2025

Monday 28 Apr 2025

KMi’s Prof Petr Knoth, participated as one of four Open Science panellists at the recent CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2025. The panel addressed significant challenges in Open Science, including interoperability issues, underfunding of Green Open Access, lack of recognition for infrastructure contributions, and misaligned incentives. Prof Knoth highlighted the critical role of infrastructure like CORE in...

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Smart Assessment and Guided Education with Responsible AI Webinar

Monday 28 Apr 2025

The UKRI-funded project Smart Assessment and Guided Education with Responsible AI (SAGE-RAI) organised a webinar on April 24th. The webinar offered participants the chance to participate in discussions on how AI can be responsibly used in education, addressing challenges of misinformation, copyright, and bias. Participants also had the opportunity to compare the experience of using...

 

Stanford releases the 2025 AI Index, with a little help from KMi

Wednesday 9 Apr 2025

The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI published its 2025 AI Index report  this week, providing a comprehensive look at the global state of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The report, now in its eighth edition, tracks and visualises data on technical performance, economic impact, education, policy, and responsible AI to offer an empirical foundation for understanding the...

KMi’s contributions to Open Repositories 2025: Advancing Open Access and Research Innovation

Friday 4 Apr 2025

CORE will be contributing seven accepted submissions to the 20th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2025), taking place in Chicago, Illinois, USA, from 15–18 June 2025. These presentations highlight ongoing efforts to enhance open access, improve research discoverability, and address key challenges in the open repositories community. From managing machine access in the era of...

 

AI, Colonialism & Feminism: How KMi Research Informs Global Gender Equality Efforts

Thursday 27 Mar 2025

Last week the Shifting Power team, represented by Senior Research Fellow in KMi, Dr. Tracie Farrell, spoke at the annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). First established in 1946, the CSW is an intergovernmental body whose purpose is to promote gender equality and the rights of women globally. The commission has spent the...


CORE Successfully Completes the USRN Discovery Pilot Project, Enhancing Repository Discoverability in the United States

A significant milestone has been reached: CORE’s pilot project with the USRN has concluded, delivering impressive outcomes, our pilot project with the United States Repository Network (USRN), a collaborative initiative between CORE, SPARC, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and AntLeaf. This pilot, which commenced in 2023, focused on assessing and increasing the discoverability and...

Food and Drinks Misinformation 

No industry is immune to misinformation, including food and drinks. KMi’s director, Harith Alani, was interviewed by Food Manufacture; the leading online resource for the UK’s food and drink manufacturing industry, to highlight the threat of misinformation in this sector.  Recently, false claims about the feed additive Bovaer, for instance, caused unnecessary consumer panic and...

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