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Elsevier Launches ScienceDirect AI
From an Elsevier Release: Elsevier today launches ScienceDirect AI, a cutting-edge generative AI tool for researchers. It is designed to transform the way researchers work by enabling them to instantly extract, summarize and compare trusted insights from millions of full-text articles and book chapters on ScienceDirect, the world’s largest platform for trusted, peer-reviewed research. Researchers […]
OpenAI Launches NextGenAI Consortium to Advance Research and Education with AI; Scopus Data Crosses the 100 Million Item Threshold; & More Headlines
AI AI Skills and Capabilities in Canada (via OECD) Opera Browser Unveils AI Agent That Handles Online Tasks For You (via TNW) OpenAI Launches NextGenAI Consortium to Advance Research and Education with AI; Founding Partners Include Caltech, MIT, University of Michigan, and the Boston Public Library Policy Paper: Intellectual Property Issues in Artificial Intelligence Trained […]
AI: The Publisher of the Journal “Nature” is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Work; New Data: Demographics of the Canadian Publishing Industry, 2015-2023; & More Headlines
AI AI and the Struggle for Control Over Research (via Inside Higher Ed) Meta Knew It Used Pirated Books to Train AI, Authors Say (via Reuters) The Publisher of the Journal “Nature” is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Work (via Futurism) Authors Alliance Artificial Intelligence, Authorship, […]
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Library Battles Heat Up in Alabama; Examining Library Structures to Scale Research Support Services: Insights From an OCLC RLP Leadership Roundtable; & More Headlines
Alabama Library Battles Heat Up in Spanish Fort, Athens as New Year Begins (via APR) Data Announcing Make Data Count and HELIOS Open Collaboration: ‘Implementing data evaluation at institutions’ Working Group National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Trump Promises to Replace National Archivist After the Agency’s Role In Documents Case Against Him (via AP) NDSA […]
$715 Million Deal: “India Takes Out Giant Nationwide Subscription to 13,000 Journals”
From Science: Last week, the Indian government announced a giant deal with multiple publishers that will allow an estimated 18 million students, faculty, and researchers free access to nearly 13,000 journals, including some top-tier ones, through a single portal. Under the One Nation One Subscription scheme, which kicks in on 1 January 2025, India will […]
We Need to Start Wrestling with the Ethics of AI Agents; How Libraries Shape the Future Of Research Infrastructure; & More Headlines
AI How Federal Funding Terms and Conditions Could Encourage Safe Artificial Intelligence Development (via RAND) Research University Strategies for Implementing Generative Artificial Intelligence Systems: Webinar (via CNI) We Need to Start Wrestling with the Ethics of AI Agents (via Technology Review) Accessibility W3C Web Accessibility Work Boosted by Ford Foundation Core Funding (via W3C) Infrastructure […]
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FCC Sees Strong Interest in the Schools and Libraries Cybersecurity Pilot Program; Sage Acquires Cambridge Business Publishers; Taylor & Francis Announces Open Access Collective Funding Pilot; & More Headlines
Cybersecurity FCC Sees Strong Interest in the Schools and Libraries Cybersecurity Pilot Program (via FCC) Scopus (Elsevier) Scopus AI: Introducing Emerging Themes Sage Sage Acquires Cambridge Business Publishers Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis Announces Open Access Collective Funding Pilot
Final Report on Summit For Academic Institutional Readiness in Data Sharing (STAIRS) Published; Call for Nominations to the FORCE11 Board of Directors; & More Headlines
Data Final Report on Summit For Academic Institutional Readiness in Data Sharing (STAIRS) Published (via DCN: Data Curation Network) Sustainable Business Models For Open Data: A Strategy For Reuse in the Public Sector (via Data.europa) Elsevier Research Tools: Scopus Turns 20 (via Scopus Blog) FORCE 11 Call for Nominations to the FORCE11 Board of Directors […]
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Report: “Web of Science Index Puts eLife ‘On Hold’ Because of its Radical Publishing Model”
From Science: The Web of Science, a leading bibliometric indexing service, yesterday suspended the journal eLife from its listings because the novel publishing model adopted last year—which includes public peer review but no final decision whether a manuscript is accepted or rejected—conflicts with Web of Science’s standards for assuring quality. The move could jeopardize eLife’s journal impact factor […]
Reports: Academic Publishers Face Class Action Over ‘Peer Review’ Pay, Other Restrictions
Ed. Note: We will be updating this post with additional coverage, statements, and filings as they become available. Please check back. From Reuters: University of California Los Angeles neuroscience professor has sued six major academic journal publishers, claiming in a proposed class action that they violated antitrust law by barring simultaneous submissions to multiple journals […]
