April 24, 2024 by Gary Price
Authors Statement From EveryLibrary on the Cancellation of Author Maulik Pancholy’s Visit to Mountain View Middle School Book Bans Book Banning County Commissioners Censor Honor for Girl Scout’s Banned Book Library International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF-C) Martin R. Kalfatovic Named Director of the IIIF Consortium (IIIF-C) Louisiana Lafayette Public Library Board President Defends Book Display […]
April 23, 2024 by Gary Price
From an Indiana University Libraries Bloomington Post: Personal papers and recordings from both well-known and unsung African Americans are being digitally preserved at IU, under an agreement between IU Libraries, University Information Technology Services (UITS) and The HistoryMakers, a national non-profit organization that has grown to be the nation’s largest African American video oral history […]
April 18, 2024 by Gary Price
The full text article (preprint) linked below was recently share on arXiv. Title A Survey on Retrieval-Augmented Text Generation for Large Language Models Authors Yizheng Huang York University Jimmy Huang York University Source via arXiv April 17, 2024 Abstract Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) merges retrieval methods with deep learning advancements to address the static limitations of […]
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 […]
April 11, 2024 by Gary Price
From The Library of Congress: As a reader of the Signal, you may already be familiar with By the People, the Library of Congress’s crowdsourcing program that allows volunteers to transcribe, review, and tag digitized pages from the Library’s collections. Further, you may already know that, once completed, those transcriptions are released to the Library’s website, where […]
April 4, 2024 by Gary Price
From a 404 Media Media Report by Emanuel Maiberg: Google Books is indexing low quality, AI-generated books that will turn up in search results, and could possibly impact Google Ngram viewer, an important tool used by researchers to track language use throughout history. I was able to find the AI-generated books with the same method […]
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April 3, 2024 by Gary Price
The April 2024 (Vol 85 No 4) issue of College & Research Libraries News from the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) is now available online. Direct to Complete Table of Contents Direct to Download Complete Issue (PDF) Features Story Telling, Learning Objects, and Scalar: Hidden Tools in Asynchronous Educational Models Charmaine Henriques You […]
April 2, 2024 by Gary Price
The preprint linked below was shared today on arXiv. Title Open Access Coverage Of OpenAlex, Scopus and Web of Science Authors Marc-Andre Simard Université de Montréa Isabel Basson Université de Montréal Madelaine Hare University of Ottawa Vincent Lariviere Université de Montréal Philippe Mongeon Dalhousie University Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2404.01985 April 2, 2024 Abstract Diamond […]
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March 31, 2024 by Gary Price
The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Forensic Scientometrics — An Emerging Discipline to Protect the Scholarly Record Authors Leslie D. McIntoshDigital Science Cynthia Hudson VitaleAssociation of Research Libraries Source via arXivarXiv:2404.00478v1 Abstract Forensic Scientometrics (FoSci) is emerging as a vital discipline at the intersection of scientific integrity and security. Scholarship and […]
March 30, 2024 by Gary Price
From a Letter by MIT President Sally Kornbluth Posted on the MIT Press Website: Last fall, Provost Barnhart and I were delighted to provide more than two dozen research teams from across MIT with seed funds to develop impact papers that would articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, and calls for action across the broad domain of generative […]