information update april 2017
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Inbar Yasur | T +972 4 6013103 | M +972 54 9988090 | E [email protected] | W www.Hipusit.infoInbar Yasur | T +972 4 6013103 | M +972 54 9988090 | E [email protected] | W www.Hipusit.info
Information UpdateIFISH Meeting – April 2017
iFISH Meeting: Agenda
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Fake News / Alternative Facts
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How to spot fake news: Traditional strategy
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How to spot fake news: New tools
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Google: Fact Check Tags
Google has added "fact check" tags to some search results.
If a result from a credible fact-checking source like PolitiFact or Snopes
comes up, it will get a “fact check” tag.
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Google: Project Owl
• Google knows it has a search quality problem.
• Since November it has been concerned with fake news, disturbing
answers, and offensive search suggestions appearing at the top of
its results.
• How are they dealing with this?
• a new feedback form for search suggestions, plus formal policies about
why suggestions might be removed.
• a new feedback form for “Featured Snippet” answers.
• a new emphasis on authoritative content to improve search quality.
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Google: Project Owl – Feedback form
• Feedback form for search suggestions, plus formal policies about
why suggestions might be removed.
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Google: Project Owl – Featured Snippets
• A new feedback form for “Featured Snippets” answers.
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Google: Project Owl – Featured Snippets
• A new feedback form for “Featured Snippets” answers.
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Google: Project Owl – Featured Snippets
• A new feedback form for “Featured Snippets” answers
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Google: Project Owl – New emphasis on quality
Google search has 10,000 quality raters showing a new emphasis on
authoritative content to improve search quality:
• Raters evaluate Google’s search results
• They rate the quality of pages that appear in the top results
• They cannot alter Google’s results directly. A rater marking a particular
listing as low quality will not cause that page to be banned or lose
ranking.
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Google: Project Owl – New emphasis on quality
• The data generated by quality raters is used to improve Google’s search
algorithms. Over time, the quality rater data might have an impact on
low-quality pages that are spotted by raters, but the algorithm will also
impact pages weren’t reviewed.
• Quality raters have a 200 page set of guidelines with instructions on
how to assess website quality and whether the results they review meet
the needs of those who perform searches.
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What other tools do we need?
• A Satire Recognition Tool…
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WikiTRIBUNE: Evidence-based Jjurnalism
• Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, is launching a new
online publication which will aim to fight fake news by pairing
professional journalists with an army of volunteer community
contributors.
“News by the people and for the people”
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Coming soon…Facebook ‘fact-checkers’
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PubMed: Conflict of interest statements
• A new tool makes it easier to recognize studies that have hidden
conflicts of interest in the area of Drugs, Food, Chemicals &
Nutrition
• It is now showing funding information on its abstract page
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PubMed: Conflict of interest statements
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PubMed: Conflict of interest statements
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PubMed: Conflict of interest statements
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PubMed: Conflict of interest statements
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Library 2.017 “Digital Literacy + Fake News”
The second of three library 2.017 Mini-conferences
“Digital Literacy + Fake News”
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http://stephenslighthouse.com/2017/04/19/library-2-017-mini-conferences-digital-literacy-fake-news/
New Services in Academic Libraries
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Dog on demand
• University of Victoria’s Law Library in Canada now allows students
to borrow a canine companion
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So…if we are talking about dogs…
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A new database: U.S. Pet Ownership Statistics
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https://www.avma.org/KB/Resources/Statistics/Pages/Market-research-statistics-US-pet-
ownership.aspx
What’s new in full text?
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Unpaywall: Free, legal access to scholarly articles
• A free extension for Firefox or Chrome.
• Allow searchers to legally access full-text research papers from its
index of ten million, legally loaded, open-access articles.
• Unpaywall.org is a project developed by Impactstory, a nonprofit
working to make science more open and reusable
online, supported by grants from the National Science Foundation
and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpaywall/iplffkdpngmdjhlpjmppncnlhomiipha?hl=en
Unpaywall: Free, legal access to scholarly articles
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpaywall/iplffkdpngmdjhlpjmppncnlhomiipha?hl=en
Unpaywall: Free, legal access to scholarly articles
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpaywall/iplffkdpngmdjhlpjmppncnlhomiipha?hl=en
Introduction to Judy & IFISH
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Number of Judy’s IFish Forum replies over time
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Thank you, Judy!
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Inbar Yasur | T +972 4 6013103 | M +972 54 9988090 | E [email protected] | W www.Hipusit.infoInbar Yasur | T +972 4 6013103 | M +972 54 9988090 | E [email protected] | W www.Hipusit.info
Thank you!