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State of Open Data 2025 (10th Anniversary Edition) Published Today
New today from Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature. From the Release: The report, now in its 10th year, is the longest running study into open research behaviour and attitudes. Combining survey data from more than 4,700 responses across 151 countries with global expert perspectives from researchers, librarians and policy leaders, it provides an unprecedented insight […]
AI Roundup: De Gruyter Brill, Emerald Publishing, IOP Publishing, Silverchair and Springer Nature Partner With Kudos to Examine Zero-Click and AI Search Risks to the Research Ecosystem & More Headlines
Anthropic Anthropic and Teach For AllLaunch Global AI Training Initiative For Educators Conferderation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Mitigating the Impact of AI Bots; New Resource: “Dealing With Bots: A COAR Resource for Repository Managers” Clarivate Clarivate Announces Launch of Alma Specto (An AI-Powered Digital Collection Platform) Guidelines Guidelines and Best Practices for Making Government […]
Axios: Trump Admin Cuts Contracts with Springer Nature
Update: Additional Coverage From Inside Higher Education is available here. The Trump administration has terminated millions worth of funding for Springer Nature, a German-owned scientific publishing giant that has long received payments for subscriptions from National Institutes of Health and other agencies, Axios has learned. [Clip] Earlier this year, the Justice Departmentsent a letter to […]
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DIAMAS Releases International Recommendations and Guidelines for Diamond Open Access; New Analysis From Springer Nature Reveals Widespread International Disparities In Research Integrity Training; & More Headlines
BTAA (Big 10 Academic Alliance) Big Ten Academic Alliance and Springer Nature Announce First-Ever Unlimited Open Access Publishing Agreement in the Americas Diamond Open Access DIAMAS Releases International Recommendations and Guidelines for Diamond Open Access Maine Maine State Library Partially Reopens After Layoffs (via Portland Press Herald) Plan S Coalition S Head Of Strategy, Robert […]
AI News Roundup: New Data From COAR: “Repositories are Being Profoundly Impacted by AI Bots and Other Crawlers”; “Springer Nature Donates its Unique AI Tool That Identifies Problematic Text to Publishing Community”; & More Headlines
Bots/Crawling As AI Lawsuits Mount, Publishers Still Struggle to Block the Bots (via Digiday)Note: An archived version of this article available here. LLMs Generalization Bias in Large Language Model Summarization of Scientific Research (via Royal Society Open) This Data Set Helps Researchers Spot Harmful Stereotypes in LLMs (via Technology Review) Repositories New Data From COAR: Repositories […]
New Report: “Generative AI & Journalism: Content, Journalistic Perceptions, and Audience Experiences”; Springer Nature Retracted 2,923 Papers Last Year; & More Headlines
AI From Pen to Prompt: How Creative Writers Integrate AI Into Their Writing Practice (preprint; via arXiv) Generative AI & Journalism: Content, Journalistic Perceptions, and Audience Experiences (via RMIT University) Identifying the Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Copyright Policy (via US Copyright Office) New York Times Goes All-In on Internal AI Tools (via Semafor) […]
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$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 […]
Just Released: “The State of Open Data 2024 Special Report: Bridging Policy and Practice in Data Sharing”
From Digital Science: New analysis suggests that open data practice is now on the edge of becoming a standard, recognised and supported scholarly output, globally. As part of the latest in the State of Open Data series, produced by partners Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature, direct author-sharing practices have been analysed from a funder, country and institutional […]
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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 […]
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 […]
