May 16, 2024 by Gary Price
From the Association of American Publishers (AAP): The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released its StatShot report covering the first three months of 2024 reflecting reported revenue for Trade (Consumer Books), Religious Presses, Higher Education Course Materials, and Professional Publishing. Total revenues across all categories for the first quarter of the year were up […]
May 15, 2024 by Gary Price
From the European Commission: The [European] Commission has released a collection of 3D-digitised cultural heritage assets on Europeana, the common European data space for cultural heritage.[Clip] The collection results from the ‘Twin it! 3D for Europe’s culture’ campaign and includes a range of historic buildings, sites and objects, such as the statue of a Madonna […]
May 15, 2024 by Gary Price
From Syracuse University Libraries: Syracuse University Libraries has launched its new online Plastics Collection comprised of digitized content from the Special Collections Research Center’s (SCRC’s) plastics collecting area. This new landing page for the collection reimagines the previous site, which formerly focused on the digital photography of more than 3,000 objects from the Plastics Artifacts Collection. The new Plastics Collection brings […]
May 15, 2024 by Gary Price
AI NY Times Op/Ed: Will A.I. Ever Live Up to Its Hype? Senators Urge $32 Billion in Emergency Spending on AI After Finishing Yearlong Review (via AP) CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) Edition Guide For CNI’s May Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series Now Live Crossref Crossref Releases 2024 Public Data File Featuring New Experimental Formats FEDLINK […]
May 13, 2024 by Gary Price
From EDUCAUSE: This report profiles the trends and key technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning, and envisions a number of scenarios for that future. It is based on the perspectives and expertise of a global panel of leaders from across the higher education landscape. In the denouement of the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
May 13, 2024 by Gary Price
From CNBC: OpenAI on Monday launched a new AI model and desktop version of ChatGPT, along with a new user interface. The update brings GPT-4 to everyone, [emphasis ours] including OpenAI’s free users, CTO Mira Murati said in a livestreamed event. She added that the new model, GPT-4o, is “much faster,” with improved capabilities in […]
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May 12, 2024 by Gary Price
The journal article linked below was recently published by Research Ethics. Title Guidance Needed For Using Artificial Intelligence to Screen Journal Submissions For Misconduct Authors Mohammad Hosseini Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine David R. Resnik National Institute of Environmental Health, National Institutes of Health Source Research Ethics First published online May 11, 2024 DOI: 10.1177/17470161241254052 […]
May 10, 2024 by Gary Price
AI How to Implement AI — Responsibly (via Harvard Business Review) Ethical Implications of ChatGPT in Higher Education: A Scoping Review (preprint via arXiv) JSTOR Path to Open Announces 2024 Titles (via JSTOR) Open Access Open Access Improves the Dissemination of Science: Insights from Wikipedia (preprint via arXiv) Oregon Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library Expands Across […]
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May 10, 2024 by Gary Price
From NYU Tandon: Can artificial intelligence (AI) match human skills for finding obscure connections between words? Researchers at NYU Tandon School of Engineering turned to the daily Connections puzzle from The New York Times to find out. [Clip] With Julian Togelius, NYU Tandon Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and Director of the […]
May 10, 2024 by Gary Price
From Inside Higher Education: The U.S. Department of Education’s plan to drop data on libraries as part of its main postsecondary data system has generated intense blowback from academic librarians. The federal government’s collection of data about the nearly 3,700 academic libraries as part of its longitudinal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) is “critical to understanding […]