March 15, 2024 by Gary Price
Will be updating this post with media coverage, documents, amicus briefs and other filings, etc. At the bottom of this post you will find a link to the Internet Archive’s brief and other materials. From the Association of American Publishers (AAP): Today, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin Random House, and Wiley (the “Plaintiffs”), filed […]
March 14, 2024 by Gary Price
Below, a Joint Statement From: International Authors Forum PEN International International Publishers Association European and International Booksellers Federation International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions In recognition of the increasing efforts to restrict books, those who write them, publish them or make them available to readers, five organisations representing authors, publishers, booksellers and libraries worldwide […]
March 12, 2024 by Gary Price
From the AP: Librarians in several states have been pushing for legislation to rein in the costs and restrictions on electronic material, which has been growing in popularity since the COVID-19 pandemic. Patrons are stuck on long waiting lists for audio and e-books, and digital offerings are limited. This year, lawmakers in states including Connecticut, […]
March 11, 2024 by Gary Price
From The Guardian: Australia’s chief scientist, Dr Cathy Foley, has placed open access firmly on the agenda before her three-year tenure ends in December. Her world-first open access model, recently finalised for the federal government, would provide a centralised digital library for all Australians to access research papers free of charge, as long as they […]
March 9, 2024 by Gary Price
From DOAJ News: We’re excited to share our first ‘Annual Highlights’, which outlines some of our activities, projects and statistics from 2023. 2023 has been a fantastic year for DOAJ, where we’ve not only celebrated 20 years of being a key open infrastructure, but also have reached 20,000 journals. Read the Complete Post From the […]
March 8, 2024 by Gary Price
Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement From PeerJ and Taylor & Francis: Leading research publisher Taylor & Francis has announced the addition of PeerJ, a pioneer in broad-scope open access (OA) journals. PeerJ is best known for its multidisciplinary flagship title PeerJ Life & Environment serving the Biological, Medical and Environmental Sciences and PeerJ Computer Science (covering all areas […]
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March 5, 2024 by Gary Price
AI Nobody Knows How AI Works (via Technology Review) Arizona State University Arizona State University Archivists Working to Collect Stories of Black Arizonans (via ABC 15 Arizona) Audiobooks Winners of Audio Publishers Association’s 2024 Audie Awards Announced (via APA) Coherent Digital Coherent Announces New Database in Public Health and Social Care Open Data Collaboration Essential […]
March 1, 2024 by Gary Price
AI A WordPress ‘Firehose’ Allows AI Companies to Buy Access to a Million Posts a Day (via 404 Media) Ebooks UPDATE (March 6, 2024): Important Op-Ed from Connecticut Legislators (by Michael Blackwell, Readers First) –End Update– Op/Ed: Publishers Have Libraries in a Bind. We’ve Got A Novel Solution (via CT Insider) Institute of Museum and […]
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February 29, 2024 by Gary Price
The article linked below was formally published today by PLOS Biology. Title Recommendations For Accelerating Open Preprint Peer Review to Improve the Culture of Science Authors Michele Avissar-Whiting, Frédérique Belliard, Stefano M. Bertozzi, Amy Brand, Katherine Brown, Géraldine Clément-Stoneham, Stephanie Dawson, Gautam Dey, Daniel Ecer , Scott C. Edmunds, Ashley Farley, Tara D. Fischer, Maryrose […]
February 29, 2024 by Gary Price
AI Digital Science Announces Catalyst Grant Winners, Supporting AI-Based Innovations to Benefit Research Institutional Efforts to Help Academic Researchers Implement Generative AI in Research (HDSR) ProQuest, Part of Clarivate, Launches AI-Powered Research Assistant Repositories COAR Annual Conference Will Be Held June 6-7, 2024 (in conjunction with the Open Repositories Conference (Gothenburg, Sweden) Plan S Plan […]