Open repositories are being profoundly impacted by AI bots and other crawlers: Results of a COAR Survey

« There are a growing number of AI bots crawling repositories. These bots are sufficiently aggressive that they can cause service disruptions and outages in repositories. As a result, some repositories have started to block machine access to their collections, which is also inadvertently blocking other desired network services such as scholarly aggregators, indexing services, and directories. (…) »