May 8, 2024 by Gary Price
AI How AI Might Shape LGBTQIA+ Advocacy (via MIT) ||| More in this MIT Media Lab Post Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA-FCAB) CFLA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee Issues Statement on Labeling Georgia More Than 400 Self-Service Kiosks Will Be Added to Libraries Across Georgia (via WSB-TV) PEN America Book Banners Take the Fight to Public […]
May 7, 2024 by Gary Price
ACRL The May 2024 (Vol 85, No. 5) Issue of College & Research Libraries News (C&RL News) is Now Available Online AI Elsevier Announces Launch of SciBite Chat, an AI-Powered Semantic Search Tool for Life Sciences R&D ALPSP ALPSP’s Learned Publishing Journal to Transition to Gold OA in 2025 Archives NPR Report: “Archive of Japanese […]
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 […]
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 […]
February 8, 2024 by Gary Price
AI Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Evidence From an Analysis of Institutional Policies and Guidelines (preprint; arXiv) Google Rebrands Bard Chatbot as Gemini, Rolls Out Paid Subscription (via Reuters) Digitization Unique ‘Hidden’ Record Of UK’s Historic Biodiversity, with Links to Charles Darwin, to Be Digitised (Royal Agriculture University) Iowa Iowa’s War on Books Now […]
February 5, 2024 by Gary Price
The research article (preprint) linked to below was recently published by bioRxiv. Title Structured Peer Review: Pilot Results From 23 Elsevier Journals Authors Stanford University Elsevier Source DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.01.578440 Abstract The research article (preprint) linked to below was recently published by bioRxiv. Title Structured Peer Review: Pilot Results From 23 Elsevier Journals Authors Mario Malički […]
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February 5, 2024 by Gary Price
AI Hugging Face Launches Open Source AI Assistant Maker to Rival OpenAI’s Custom GPTs (via VentureBeat ALA: American Library Association American Library Association Approves Updated Core Values American Library Association Opposes Proposed Georgia Legislation Connecticut 4 Library Employees Resign in One CT Town. All But 1 Member of Library Commission Replaced (via Hartford Courant via […]
January 16, 2024 by Gary Price
From an Elsevier Announcement: Elsevier, a global leader in scientific information and data analytics, today launches Scopus AI – a generative AI product to help researchers and research institutions get fast and accurate summaries and research insights that support collaboration and societal impact.Scopus AI is based on Scopus’ trusted content from over 27,000 academic journals, […]
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December 20, 2023 by Gary Price
AI/GPT Journal Article: We Must Fix the Lack of Transparency Around the Data Used to Train Foundation Models (via HDSR) Preprint: Early ChatGPT User Portrait through the Lens of Data (via arXiv) Policy Brief: Students’ Use of Generative AI: The Threat of Hallucinations (via CDT) Elsevier Scopus Will Remove the Source Homepage Links From All […]
October 19, 2023 by Gary Price
From a Release: Sixteen university libraries in Colorado and Wyoming are collaborating to address critical issues in academic publishing that are creating inequities in access to information and raising the cost of academic journal subscriptions beyond what campus budgets can afford.The university libraries are members of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (Alliance), which is […]