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Associated Press Report: “Libraries Struggle to Afford The Demand For E-Books And Seek New State Laws In Fight With Publishers”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From the AP: Librarians in several states have been pushing for legislation to rein in the costs and restrictions on electronic material, which has been growing in popularity since the COVID-19 pandemic. Patrons are stuck on long waiting lists for audio and e-books, and digital offerings are limited. This year, lawmakers in states including Connecticut, […]
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) Releases 2023 Annual Highlights Report
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Communications
|From DOAJ News: We’re excited to share our first ‘Annual Highlights’, which outlines some of our activities, projects and statistics from 2023. 2023 has been a fantastic year for DOAJ, where we’ve not only celebrated 20 years of being a key open infrastructure, but also have reached 20,000 journals. Read the Complete Post From the […]
Scholarly Publishing: PeerJ is Becoming Part of Taylor & Francis
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), News, Open Access, Publishing
|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement From PeerJ and Taylor & Francis: Leading research publisher Taylor & Francis has announced the addition of PeerJ, a pioneer in broad-scope open access (OA) journals. PeerJ is best known for its multidisciplinary flagship title PeerJ Life & Environment serving the Biological, Medical and Environmental Sciences and PeerJ Computer Science (covering all areas […]
Springer Nature Announces Unified Open Code Policy; Plan S Releases Annual Review 2023; & More News Headlines
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, News, Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Communications, Springer Nature
|AI Digital Science Announces Catalyst Grant Winners, Supporting AI-Based Innovations to Benefit Research Institutional Efforts to Help Academic Researchers Implement Generative AI in Research (HDSR) ProQuest, Part of Clarivate, Launches AI-Powered Research Assistant Repositories COAR Annual Conference Will Be Held June 6-7, 2024 (in conjunction with the Open Repositories Conference (Gothenburg, Sweden) Plan S Plan […]
AI Chatbots’ Inaccurate, Misleading Responses About US Elections Threaten to Keep Voters From Polls Ithaka S+R Assessing the Diversity of Library Collections: Announcing a New Cohort Project Music Libraries (Yes, Libraries!) are Leading the Crusade for New Music Discovery (via SPIN) Oregon Oregon Bill that Challenges Book Bans in School Passes Senate. Bill Will Now […]
Get Ready For the Upcoming Charleston In Between Virtual Event on Publishing Integrity; Beijing City Library Officially Opens In The City’s Emerging Sub-Center; & More News Headlines
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Publishing, Springer Nature
|American Library Association (ALA) American Library Association’s Libraries Transforming Communities Initiative Receives Additional $10 Million in Funding (via ALA) Canada Provincial Government of New Foundland and Labrardor Provides $600,000 to Provincial Public Libraries ||| Media Coverage (via VOCM) China Beijing City Library Officially Opens in the City’s Emerging Sub-Center (via Snøhetta) JSTOR Labs New Project Announcement: Universal Credit Transfer Explorer (via JSTOR […]
From an MIT Press Post: The MIT Press proudly announces that applications are now open for shift+OPEN, an initiative designed to flip existing subscription-based journals to a diamond open access publishing model. Launched with generous funding from Arcadia and expanded with funding from the National Science Foundation, shift+OPEN seeks to catalyze needed change in journals publishing, introduce […]
Association of American Publishers: Youngsuk ‘YS’ Chi, Chairman of Elsevier and Director of Corporate Affairs for RELX, Elected Chair, AAP Board of Directors; Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Evidence from an Analysis of Institutional Policies and Guidelines; & More News Headlines
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Elsevier, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Publishing
|AI Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Evidence From an Analysis of Institutional Policies and Guidelines (preprint; arXiv) Google Rebrands Bard Chatbot as Gemini, Rolls Out Paid Subscription (via Reuters) Digitization Unique ‘Hidden’ Record Of UK’s Historic Biodiversity, with Links to Charles Darwin, to Be Digitised (Royal Agriculture University) Iowa Iowa’s War on Books Now […]
New York: Previewing the Rochester Public Library’s New Archive of Black History & Culture; AI Perceptions at the University of Baltimore; & More Headlines
Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Publishing
|AI White Paper: AI Perceptions at the University of Baltimore ||| Blog Post about the Paper From Ithaka S+R Kentucky Video: Louisville’s Western Library Holds More Than a Century of History (via WAVE) New York Previewing the Rochester Public Library’s New Archive of Black History & Culture (via WXXI) Pennsylvania Philadelphia: “Mayor Parker’s Social Media […]
AI: “Hugging Face Launches Open Source AI Assistant Maker to Rival OpenAI’s Custom GPTs”; Events: 2024 Fiesole Collection Development Retreat to Take Place in Cape Town, South Africa, on May 7-8, 2024; & More Headlines
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Libraries, News, Publishing
|AI Hugging Face Launches Open Source AI Assistant Maker to Rival OpenAI’s Custom GPTs (via VentureBeat ALA: American Library Association American Library Association Approves Updated Core Values American Library Association Opposes Proposed Georgia Legislation Connecticut 4 Library Employees Resign in One CT Town. All But 1 Member of Library Commission Replaced (via Hartford Courant via […]