Open Access Archives
eLife Receives £2.4m ($3.17m/USD) Grant From Wellcome to Build Open Publishing Ecosystem
From an eLife Post: eLife is pleased to announce funding from Wellcome which will support a new initiative, called eLife Pathways, in building an open and collaborative ecosystem for alternative approaches to scholarly communication. A founding funder and long-term supporter of eLife, Wellcome has awarded the non-profit a grant of £2.4m, including cover for indirect […]
Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive Founder and Director) is the Guest on the Latest Episode of ATG The Podcast
From the Charleston Hub Channel on YouTube: Today’s episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Brewster Kahle, Founder & Director, Internet Archive. Brewster says that back in the 1980’s he believed that everything would eventually become digital. He dreamed of building a Library of Alexandria where humanity’s knowledge would […]
Repositories: SocArXiv Releases AI Policy
From a Post by Philip N. Cohen, SocArXiv Director: In November 2025, we paused new submissions about AI topics. For about three months, we turned away papers about AI models, testing AI models, proposing AI models, theories about the future of AI and so on. We accepted some empirical social science research about AI in […]
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New Report From IFLA: “Weak Signals: Emergent and Potential Trends Shaping the Future of Libraries”
From an International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Releases Blog Post: IFLA’s new Weak Signals Report brings together insights into developments across our field that have the potential to become trends in future. Created by recipients of our Emerging Leaders’ Grants at WLIC2025, it draws on ideas and experiences shared at our annual […]
An “Enhanced” Version of the ESAC Registry Now Online: “A Community-Driven Step Forward For Transparency In Open Access Publishing Agreements”
From the ESAC Blog: The OA2020 and ESAC communities mark a new phase in the evolution of the ESAC Registry—a shared, library-driven infrastructure documenting open access publishing agreements between libraries, consortia, and publishers. Built by practitioners to strengthen transparency and shared insight across a rapidly evolving publishing landscape, the Registry documents how libraries worldwide have translated […]
Journal Article: Data as a New Research Publication Type: What Could Be The Role Of Research Libraries as Service Providers?
The article linked below was recently published by LIBER Quarterly. Title Data as a New Research Publication Type: What Could Be The Role Of Research Libraries as Service Providers? Authors Mari Elisa Kuusniemi University of Helsinki Susanna Nykyri Tampere University Source LIBER Quarterly Vol. 36 No. 1 (2026) DOI: 10.53377/lq.19415 Abstract This article examines the […]
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Preprint Roundup: Campus AI vs. Commercial AI; The Impact of LLMs on Online News Consumption and Production; Semantic Search at LinkedIn; & More
Here are several new or revised preprints posted on arXiv that might be of interest. An Analysis of the Effects Of Open Science Indicators on Citations in the French Open Science Monitor Authorship Drift: How Self-Efficacy and Trust Evolve During LLM-Assisted Writing Campus AI vs. Commercial AI: Comparing How Students and Employees Perceive their University’s […]
Journal Article: Synthesizing Scientific Literature with Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
The paper linked below was published today by Nature. It discusses the work by Ai2 and the University of Washington to develop OpenScholar that we’ve been posting about around here since it launched (as a prototype) in late 2024. Some of OpenScholar’s resources are accessible (to all) via the Asta ecosystem of tools. Title Synthesizing […]
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International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Publishes Guidelines for Green Libraries
New From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). The guidelines document was edited by Petra Hauke, Antonia Mocatta, and Priscilla Nga Ian Pun “with contributions and support from the IFLA Guidelines for Green Libraries Working Group of the IFLA Environment, Sustainability and Libraries (ENSULIB) Section.” From an Introductory Post: The IFLA Environment, Sustainability […]
Research Paper (preprint): The ‘Big Three’ of Scientific Information: A Comparative Bibliometric Review of Web of Science, Scopus, and OpenAlex
The preprint linked below was recently posted on arXiv. Title The ‘Big Three’ of Scientific Information: A Comparative Bibliometric Review of Web of Science, Scopus, and OpenAlex Authors Daniel Torres-Salinas EC3metrics, Universidad de Granada, Spain Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado EC3metrics, Universidad de Granada, Spain Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2601.21908 Abstract The present comparative study examines the three […]
