Roundup (July 13, 2020)

July 13, 2020 by Gary Price

About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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The 2023 Scholarly Kitchen Webinar (April 12, 2023): The Nelson Memo… Now What?

From the Website (via Society of Scholarly Publishers): The US OSTP’s Nelson Memo, which requires immediate public access to federally funded research papers, sent a shockwave across the scholarly communications ...

Digital Collections: Library of Congress Adds MLB History Online: Early Baseball Publications

From the Library of Congress: To celebrate the start of the 2023 season, the Library is pleased to announce a new digital collection: Early Baseball Publications. The collection, which will grow over ...

Italy: Privacy Watchdog Temporarily Blocks ChatGPT Citing Data Breach; ChatGPT Opened a New Era in Search. Microsoft Could...

Associated Press: Italy: Privacy Watchdog Temporarily Blocks ChatGPT Citing Data Breach ChatGPT Opened a New Era in Search. Microsoft Could Ruin It (via WIRED) General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence (New Briefing Doc ...

Ithaka S+R Publishes US Library Survey 2022 Research Report: Navigating the New Normal

From the Ithaka S+R Library Survey by Ioana G. Hulbert Executive Summary The Ithaka S+R Library Survey has examined leadership and strategic perspectives in the field by surveying library deans ...

Funding: Coko Foundation Awarded 2-Year $595,000 Mellon Foundation Grant to Support Further Development of the Ketida Web-Based Book...

Here’s the Full Text of the Coko Announcement: Coko is delighted to announce that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant of $595,000 over 2 years to support ...

NIST Launches Trustworthy and Responsible AI Resource Center

From Nextgov: The new Trustworthy & Responsible Artificial Intelligence Resource Center built by the National Institute of Standards and Technology will now serve as a repository for much of the ...

LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) Appoints Martine Pronk Interim Executive Director

From a LIBER Announcement: LIBER is pleased to announce that Martine Pronk has been appointed as Interim Executive Director, for the period 22 May-1 September 2023. Martine will take over ...

Open Book Futures: A New £5.8 Million Project to Deliver a "More Sustainable Future" For Open Access Books...

Here’s the Full Text of an Announcement From Lancaster University: A new project that works to increase access to valuable research is to receive more than £5.8 million [$7.15 Million/USD] ...

Project Muse Journal Publishers Offer Free Access for Low-Income Countries; Towards the Future of Responsible Research Assessment: Announcing DORA’s...

Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) Call for Working Group Proposals 2023 (via RDA) Envisioning Together: A Report of Session 803 (SAA 2022) (via DLF) NISO’s Draft Content Profile/Linked Document ...

The French Open Science Monitor 2022: 67% Of Publications in Open Access and New Indicators for Research Data...

From the The Ministry of Higher Education and Research, Government of France: The Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes the results of the French Open Science Monitor for 2022. ...

Conference Paper: "Responding to Digital Misinformation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Effective Countermeasures"

From a Post on the Programme On Democracy & Technology (DemTech), Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) Website: Several members of our research team will be attending the 2023 International ...

Report: Connecticut Dedicates $1M to Digitize Historical Documents

From Governing: At a time when many states dispute whether accurate history should be taught in schools, Connecticut Historical Society is celebrating $1 million in federal funding to digitize its ...

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