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What Motivates People to Trust ‘AI’ Systems?; ORCID Releases 2023 Annual Report ; & More Headlines
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|AI Combating Deepfakes (Spotlight Brief, via GAO) Google Restricts Gemini From Answering Election-Related Queries Worldwide (via MediaPost) Guiding Your AI Journey: Essential Resources (via JISC) What Motivates People to Trust ‘AI’ Systems? (preprint, via arXiv) Internet Fibre and Fixed Wireless Access are the Two Fastest Growing Fixed Broadband Technologies in the OECD (via OECD) ORCID […]
From OECD: As roughly half the world’s population prepares to vote in elections, a new OECD report offers the first baseline assessment of how OECD countries are upgrading their governance measures to support an environment where reliable information can thrive, prioritising freedom of expression and human rights, and sets out a policy framework for countries […]
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 […]
Libraries Support Data-Driven Decision Making: Report From OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) & LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) Facilitated Discussion
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|From a Hanging Together Blog Post by Rebecca Bryant: The OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) and LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries) hosted a facilitated discussion on the topic of data-driven decision making on 7 February 2024. This event was a component of the ongoing Building for the future series exploring how libraries are working to provide state-of-the-art services, as described in LIBER’s […]
From a Clarivate Blog Post: Over the past few years, we have implemented a series of policy changes for the Journal Citation Reports (JCR)™ aimed at aligning coverage between the Web of Science Core Collection™ and the JCR, providing more transparency of the data underlying JCR metrics encouraging a more inclusive, more holistic way of […]
AI: “States are Introducing 50 AI-Related Bills Per Week”; “South Carolina Board of Ed Approves Order to Give State Final Say Over Books in Local Libraries”; & More News Headlines
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|AI States are Introducing 50 AI-Related Bills Per Week (via Axios) Alabama Alabama Lawmakers Want to Change Archives Oversight After Dispute Over LGBTQ+ Lecture (via AP) Coherent Digital Coherent Digital and Trojman Acquire Major Canadian Micropublisher to Create Neww Digital Collections EveryLibrary EveryLibrary Institute Announces New Editorial Board Members for The Political Librarian HathiTrust HathiTrust’s […]
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 […]
ARL Releases Two New Reports: “Making Research Data Publicly Accessible: Estimates of Institutional & Researcher Expense” & “Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative: Research Methodology 2022–2023 Surveys and Interviews”
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|From the Association of Research Libraries (ARL): In 2021 the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and six academic institutions involved in the Data Curation Network (DCN) were awarded a US National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER grant to conduct research, develop models, and collect costing information for public access to research data across from funded researchers […]
The research article (preprint) linked to below was recently published by bioRxiv. Title Structured Peer Review: Pilot Results From 23 Elsevier Journals Authors Stanford University Elsevier Source DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.01.578440 Abstract The research article (preprint) linked to below was recently published by bioRxiv. Title Structured Peer Review: Pilot Results From 23 Elsevier Journals Authors Mario Malički […]
From the University of North Carolina: A partnership between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s University Libraries and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) will create an online searchable public depository of roughly 4 million internal documents from the state of North Carolina’s $47.8 million settlement with electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs. [Clip] […]