March 18, 2024 by Gary Price
Little Free Libraries Dav Pilkey, Scholastic, and Little Free Libraries Launch New Initiative Louisiana New Orleans Public Library is Now Fine Free (via NOPL) Open Book Collective Collective Development Fund Grant Programme: Scoping Update (via Open Book Collective) Scholarly Communications Scientific Journals Are Publishing Papers with AI-Generated Text (via 404 Media) Standards W3C Adopts New […]
March 13, 2024 by Gary Price
The article linked below was published today by the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). Title To Preprint or Not to Preprint: A Global Researcher Survey Authors Rong Ni Nanyang Centre for Public Administration (NCPA), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands […]
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 7, 2024 by Gary Price
CORE CORE at Open Repositories 2024 (via CORE) Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) IMLS and Council of American Jewish Museums Partner to Address Antisemitism Michigan Bills Introduced in Michigan Senate Look to Restore the State’s School Libraries (via Michigan Public Radio) Oklahoma Metropolitan Library CEO Larry Nash White Announces Resignation in May (via […]
March 5, 2024 by Gary Price
From an EveryLibrary Institute Blog Post: In “Divisive Politics and Threats to Academic Libraries,” the EveryLibrary Institute hopes to encourage academic librarians to proactively redefine their roles, engage in policy advocacy, and acquire the advanced training needed to lead in an environment that is fraught with legislative and ideological challenges. We have analyzed the situation […]
March 3, 2024 by Gary Price
From the University of Minnesota Libraries: The University of Minnesota now has one of the largest human rights archives at a public university, and it’s already helping researchers, educators, and human rights advocates across the globe. “With everything that’s happening in the world, if we can highlight aspects of the history of human rights, maybe […]
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March 1, 2024 by Gary Price
From an Interesting and Informative Crossref Blog Post by Martin Eve: Crossref holds metadata for approximately 150 million scholarly artifacts. These range from peer reviewed journal articles through to scholarly books through to scientific blog posts. In fact, amid such heterogeneity, the only singular factor that unites such items is that they have been assigned […]
March 1, 2024 by Gary Price
The paper linked from below was recently made available by Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) via Zenodo. Title The Cost and Price of Public Access to Research Data: A Synthesis Authors Gail Steinhart Invest in Open Infrastructure Katherine Skinner Invest in Open Infrastructure Source Invest in Open Infrastructure (via Zenodo) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10729575 Abstract Beginning on […]
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February 27, 2024 by Gary Price
From the CBC: More than four months after a ransomware attack shut down the Toronto Public Library’s computer systems, staff are finally putting a million stranded books back on the shelves. [Clip] The restoration of its downed services — which includes the return of nearly 5,000 employee and public computers — is a relief to library staff […]
February 23, 2024 by Gary Price
The article (preprint) linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Explaining Relationships Among Research Papers Authors Xiangci Li University of North Texas Jessica Ouyang University of North Texas Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2402.13426 Abstract Due to the rapid pace of research publications, keeping up to date with all the latest related papers is very […]