March 27, 2024 by Gary Price
From a Center for Global Development (CDG) Post by Tom Drake: Today marks a significant milestone as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) announces a new Open Access policy, representing a departure from traditional practices. This policy will cease support for individual article publishing fees, known as APCs, and mandate the use of preprints while […]
March 26, 2024 by Gary Price
From the Association of American Publishers: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released its StatShot report for December 2023 reflecting reported revenue for Trade (Consumer Books), Religious Presses, Higher Education Course Materials, and Professional Publishing. Total revenues across all categories for December 2023 were down 2.5% as compared to December 2022, coming in at […]
March 26, 2024 by Gary Price
From a News Release: The 14th GW Ethics in Publishing Conference will be held as a hybrid event on Thursday, October 10, 2024, at the City View Room, GW’s Foggy Bottom Campus, and online. The theme of the 2024 conference is “Integrity in a Time of Change.” Alumni and current students in the GW Publishing program are […]
March 26, 2024 by Gary Price
Artificial Intelligence (AI) ChatGPT “Contamination”: Estimating the Prevalence of LLMs in the Scholarly Literature (preprint via arXiv) Why Large Language Models Like ChatGPT Treat Black- and White-Sounding Names Differently (Stanford HAI) Library Publishing Coalition Announcing the New LPC Board Members and Bylaws Update Linked Data An Introduction to Library Linked Data (via OCLC Next) Western […]
March 25, 2024 by Gary Price
Artificial Intelligence (AI) The Tech Industry Can’t Agree On What Open-Source AI Means. That’s a Problem (via MIT Technology Review) Arts New Data: Arts & Cultural Sector Hit All-Time High in 2022 Value Added to U.S. Economy (via National Endowment for the Arts, US Bureau of Economic Analysis) Librarians A University Librarian Asks: How Do […]
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 […]
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March 15, 2024 by Gary Price
From ZBW MediaTalk: The study “The neglect of equity and inclusion in open science policies of Europe and the Americas” was published in November 2023 and used a qualitative document research approach. One of its findings is that Open Science policies tend to focus on a narrow set of practices, particularly Open Access and Open Data, and […]
March 14, 2024 by Gary Price
Below, a Joint Statement From: International Authors Forum PEN International International Publishers Association European and International Booksellers Federation International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions In recognition of the increasing efforts to restrict books, those who write them, publish them or make them available to readers, five organisations representing authors, publishers, booksellers and libraries worldwide […]
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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 13, 2024 by Gary Price
ACRL Michelle Demeter Appointed College & Research Libraries Editor AI Anthropic (Providers of Claude) Launches a Library of Chatbot Prompts (via ZDNet) Croissant: A Metadata Format For ML-Ready Datasets (via Google Research) Wiley Announces Pilot of New AI-Powered Papermill Detection Service Canada Is Book Banning Coming to Canada? Libraries, Book Stores, Authors Watching Closely (about […]