April 17, 2024 by Gary Price
From Science: When and how should text-generating artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as ChatGPT help write research papers? In the coming months, 4000 researchers from a variety of disciplines and countries will weigh in on guidelines that could be adopted widely across academic publishing, which has been grappling with chatbots and other AI issues for the […]
April 16, 2024 by Gary Price
From the US GPO: The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has added historical volumes of the United States Statutes at Large (Statutes at Large) to GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. The newly added Volumes 1–64 (1789–1950) date back to 1789 and include the text of […]
April 15, 2024 by Gary Price
AI Google’s New Technique Gives LLMs Infinite Context (via Venture Beat) AR/VR Meta Wants to Put Students and Teachers in Quest VR Headsets (via Axios) ||| Official Meta Blog Post Digital Science/Metaphacts Metaphacts and Dimensions Launch the Dimensions Knowledge Graph, Powered by metaphactory Iowa Five Publishers Join PRH in Its Lawsuit of Iowa (via Publishing […]
April 11, 2024 by Gary Price
From an Open Syllabus Blog Post (about 1500 words): With the release of version 2.11 of the OS dataset, we can update our reporting on adoption rates for open educational resources (OERs) — specifically, open textbooks and ‘open access’ monographs. [Clip] We track OER adoption via the appearance of titles on syllabi — the point […]
April 8, 2024 by Gary Price
From ALA: The American Library Association (ALA) launched National Library Week with today’s release of its highly anticipated annual list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2023 and the State of America’s Libraries Report, which highlights the ways libraries and library workers have taken action to address community needs with innovative and critical services, as […]
April 6, 2024 by Gary Price
From The NY Times: The race to lead A.I. has become a desperate hunt for the digital data needed to advance the technology. To obtain that data, tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Meta have cut corners, ignored corporate policies and debated bending the law, according to an examination by The New York Times. At […]
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April 3, 2024 by Gary Price
From SPARC Europe: A new report from the DIAMAS work package that SPARC Europe leads looks at understanding how institutional publishing is sustained today. Institutional publishers and service providers are diverse due to their missions, size and service provision. In addition, there is no definitive set of tasks that all institutional publishers share. These characteristics influence the […]
April 2, 2024 by Gary Price
The preprint linked below was shared today on arXiv. Title Open Access Coverage Of OpenAlex, Scopus and Web of Science Authors Marc-Andre Simard Université de Montréa Isabel Basson Université de Montréal Madelaine Hare University of Ottawa Vincent Lariviere Université de Montréal Philippe Mongeon Dalhousie University Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2404.01985 April 2, 2024 Abstract Diamond […]
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April 2, 2024 by Gary Price
From a BookNet Canada: The top-selling English language print book in Canada last year was Spare by Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, according to new research released by BookNet Canada. Sales of this title drove a 16% increase in the Biography & Autobiography category when compared with 2022. For the first time this year, […]
April 2, 2024 by Gary Price
AI Dan Cohen: Is Science Becoming Conceptual Art? (Humane Ingenuity 52) (via CNI) Washington State Judge Blocks Use of AI-Enhanced Video As Evidence in Possible First-Of-Its-Kind Ruling (via NBC News) WHO Unveils A Digital Health Promoter Harnessing Generative AI For Public Health Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA) Request for Proposals: Communication Strategy for CFLA-FCAB […]