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Internet Archive Founder Brewster Kahle Receives 2026 Fellow Award From Computer History Museum For Lifetime Achievements in Computing
| Awards, Digital Preservation, News, Open Access, Preservation
Congratulations Brewster! Brewster is one of several recipients 2026 Fellow Award honorees announced yesterday. Here’s the full text of the Computer History Museum release. Annual award program recognizes honorees for significant contributions to the foundations of mobile computing, digital preservation, and open access to knowledge MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – January 29, 2026 – The Computer History Museum (CHM), the leading institution decoding […]
Data Tools: NOAA Launches Wildfire Data Portal, Expanding Public Access to Satellite Fire Information
| Data Files, Maps, News, Open Access
From a NOAA Release: In response to the growing threat of wildland fires to local communities, NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) has developed a new Wildland Fire Data Portal, which provides open access to the experimental products from the Next Generation Fire System (NGFS). The NGFS uses a sophisticated algorithm that automatically identifies […]
New today from Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature. From the Release: The report, now in its 10th year, is the longest running study into open research behaviour and attitudes. Combining survey data from more than 4,700 responses across 151 countries with global expert perspectives from researchers, librarians and policy leaders, it provides an unprecedented insight […]
Research Tools: US Government Publishing (GPO) Office Begins Public Preview of the GovInfo Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
| Data Files, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing
From a GovInfo.gov Post: We are proud to announce the public preview of the GovInfo Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that will enhance access to GovInfo content for large language models (LLMs), specifically artificial intelligence (AI). MCP is an emerging industry standard that enables systems to create specific tools for LLMs to interact with, without requiring those […]
AI Roundup: De Gruyter Brill, Emerald Publishing, IOP Publishing, Silverchair and Springer Nature Partner With Kudos to Examine Zero-Click and AI Search Risks to the Research Ecosystem & More Headlines
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, News, Open Access, Publishing, Roundup, Springer Nature
Anthropic Anthropic and Teach For AllLaunch Global AI Training Initiative For Educators Conferderation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Mitigating the Impact of AI Bots; New Resource: “Dealing With Bots: A COAR Resource for Repository Managers” Clarivate Clarivate Announces Launch of Alma Specto (An AI-Powered Digital Collection Platform) Guidelines Guidelines and Best Practices for Making Government […]
Online Event: University of Kansas Libraries Launches Global Speaker Series on Librarianship
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Lecture, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access
From the University of Kansas Libraries: The University of Kansas Libraries will launch “Global Conversations in Librarianship,” a new speaker series highlighting international perspectives on libraries and information work, with Ukrainian library leader Tetyana Yaroshenko as its inaugural speaker Feb. 26. Yaroshenko, deputy director for research and international affairs at the State Scientific and Technical […]
The preprint below (version 2) was recently shared on arXiv. Title How Permanent are Metadata For Research Data? Understanding Changes in DataCite Metadata (v2) Author Dorothea Strecker Humboldt-Universit¨at zu Berlin Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2412.05128 Abstract With the move towards open research information, the DOI registration agency DataCite is increasingly used as a source for […]
Listen Online: New PALABRA Archive Recordings Released for Digital Streaming
| Awards, News, Open Access
From LC: In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, which was celebrated from September 15 to October 15, the Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division (LACE) has released a new batch of unpublished recordings from the PALABRA Archive for online streaming. The PALABRA Archive is a collection of audio recordings of 20th and 21st century poets and writers […]
From a COAR Announcement: This report presents a brief overview of the socio-political landscape for scholarly communications and describes some of the major forces that could significantly impact the repository ecosystem in the coming years. The aim is to provide COAR members with a synopsis of current trends that may affect repositories as well as […]
Repositories: arXiv Receives $7 Million in Gifts and Grants From Schmidt Sciences and NASA
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access
From an arXiv Announcement: We are pleased to announce that Schmidt Sciences and NASA have generously awarded arXiv $7 million in gifts and grants, respectively, to allow arXiv to complete its technology migration project and to explore ways to improve the arXiv experience through personalized and fair discovery of new preprints. arXiv began its cloud […]
