Safeguarding Research & Culture: Save public data from the digital bookburnings! WHY2025

Archives are vulnerable. Modern archival methods are robust, but no archive or institute alone can withstand the threats we are currently facing. Safeguarding Research & Culture (SRC) is creating an alternative infrastructure for archiving and disseminating of cultural heritage & scientific knowledge. We focus on publicly available material under threat of being deleted or altered. We preserve this data using open standards, open-source software, distributed storage and your help!

GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation | HKS Misinformation Review

Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, general-purpose AI applications, most likely ChatGPT, and mimic scientific writing. Google Scholar easily locates and lists these questionable papers alongside reputable, quality-controlled research. Our analysis of a selection of

Effects of transdisciplinary research on scientific knowledge and reflexivity – InfoDoc MicroVeille

Braiding Sweetgrass

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lense...