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 […]
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 […]
February 27, 2024 by Gary Price
American Library Association (ALA) American Library Association’s Libraries Transforming Communities Initiative Receives Additional $10 Million in Funding (via ALA) Canada Provincial Government of New Foundland and Labrardor Provides $600,000 to Provincial Public Libraries ||| Media Coverage (via VOCM) China Beijing City Library Officially Opens in the City’s Emerging Sub-Center (via Snøhetta) JSTOR Labs New Project Announcement: Universal Credit Transfer Explorer (via JSTOR […]
December 7, 2023 by Gary Price
AI How Can Universities Create AI Tools for their Communities? An Interview with the Creators of UC San Diego’s TritonGPT (via Ithaka S+R) Clarivate Clarivate Add More Than 172 Million Linked Cited References From ProQuest Dissertations and Theses on the Web Of Science Iowa Council Bluff Library App Among Many Impacted by Vendor’s Unplanned Outage […]
November 14, 2023 by Gary Price
From a Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature Announcement: In the eighth annual The State of Open Data report released today, almost three quarters of surveyed researchers overwhelmingly said they are still not getting the support they need to share their data openly. Such data highlights the increased need for greater community collaboration and tools to support […]
November 7, 2023 by Gary Price
Clarivate Bringing Generative AI to the Web of Science Discussed in New Clarivate Post Disinformation Exclusive: Elon Musk’s X Restructuring Curtails Disinformation Research, Spurs Legal Fears (via Reuters) Infrastructure Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) Version 1.1: Reflections from Adopters (via Upstream/Force 11) Internet Archive Internet Archive Submits Comments on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Family […]
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October 31, 2023 by Gary Price
From a Plan S Statement: A vision for a community-based scholarly communication system Driven by the same “duty of care for the good functioning of the science system” that inspired Plan S, the funders forming cOAlition S are now exploring a new vision for scholarly communication; a vision that holds the promise of being more […]
October 25, 2023 by Gary Price
COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) COAR’s Response to the American Chemical Society’s New Fee for Repository Deposit Germany New Data: German Library Association Publishes ‘Libraries In Germany 2023’ Open Science Science 2.0: Towards a Truly Collaborative Research Ecosystem (via PLOS Biology) Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Senate Passes ‘Explicit Content’ Legislation After Heated Debate Over Whether It’s […]
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October 19, 2023 by Gary Price
British Museum British Museum to Digitise Collectiona as Over Two Million Objects are Found to be Undocumented (via The Art Newspaper) Colorado Denver Post Report: “Garfield County Leaders Tell Library to Keep ‘Pornographic Materials’ Away From Kids in Latest Salvo Over Japanese Graphic Novels” Germany Wiley and German DEAL Consortium to Sign New 5-Year Agreement […]
October 13, 2023 by Gary Price
California San Diego Central Library Jumping Into Fight Against Opioid Addiction (via NBC San Diego) Infrastructure Multiple Paths to Open Library Infrastructure (via Hanging Together, OCLC Research) Montana Montana State Library Commission Votes to Eliminate Educational Standard for Large Library Directors (via Flathead Beacon) ||| Montana State Library Commission Votes to Eliminate Educational Standard for […]