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From Boise State Public Radio: In 2021, the departments of Interior and Agriculture issued a joint order calling for agreements to co-steward federal lands with tribal governments, and to incorporate Indigenous knowledge. It called for these arrangements “where Federal lands or waters, including wildlife and its habitat, are located within or adjacent to a federally recognized Indian […]
Report: Harvard Law School Digitization Project Publishes Nearly 7 Million Court Cases Online (Caselaw Access Project)
Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Open Access, Preservation, School Libraries
|From The Harvard Crimson: The Caselaw Access Project published nearly seven million cases from the Harvard Law School’s collections online on March 8, concluding a nine-year process to digitize the HLS Library’s archive of court cases. The Caselaw Access Project, also known as CAP, aimed “to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to […]
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Announces a New Open Access Policy That Will Take Effect on January 1, 2025
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|UPDATE (March 29, 2024): Statement From Coalition S / Plan S on New Gates Foundation Open Access Policy Johan Rooryck, Executive Director at cOAlition S commented: “Five years on since Plan S was first published, it is entirely appropriate that funders are reviewing their OA policies to ensure they are effectively meeting their goals. The […]
Vermont: “Final Reading: Senate Advances Bill To Counter ‘Attacks’ on Libraries”; Washington State Passes Bill to Protect Libraries, as Other States Target Them; & More Headlines
Data Files, Libraries, News, Preservation, Scholarly Communications
|Crowdsourcing Crowdsourced Data Provides Accurate Biodiversity Picture to Aid Conservation Efforts (via eLife) Scholarly Communications Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) Celebrates Fourth Anniversary Texas Montgomery County, Texas Directs Citizen Board to Review, and Potentially Remove, Library Books (The Texas Tribune) Vermont Final Reading: Senate Advances Bill To Counter ‘Attacks’ on Libraries (via VT Digger) Washington […]
New Report From the Association of Research Libraries (ARL): “Publicly Shared Data: A Gap Analysis of Researcher Actions and Institutional Support throughout the Data Life Cycle”
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access
|From the Association of Research Libraries: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released Publicly Shared Data: A Gap Analysis of Researcher Actions and Institutional Support throughout the Data Life Cycle, a report from the Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative. ARL and six academic institutions involved in the Data Curation Network (DCN) were awarded […]
International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) Releases Statement on AI in Licensing
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users
|From the ICOLC: As artificial intelligence – in particular, generative AI and large language models – has developed rapidly since the release of ChatGPT to the public in late 2022, electronic resource vendors have begun to present libraries and consortia with new license language defining rights and restrictions related to AI. As libraries and vendors […]
Ohio Ohio Voters Approve 5 out of 7 Public Library Levies (via Ohio Library Council) SPARC Theme for Open Access Week 2024 Continues Call to Put “Community Over Commercialization” ideos Tired of Streaming? Free Blockbuster Libraries Offer an Alternative (via NY Times) Last Update: 11:05am
Delta Think Analysis: “Open Access Charges – Continued Consolidation and Increases”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, News, Open Access
|From a Delta Think Post (Analysis) by Dan Pollock and Heather Staines: Each year we survey the list Article Processing Charges (APCs) of a sample of major and significant publishers. Covering over 20,000 titles, and going back to 2016, our data set represents one of the most comprehensive reviews of open access pricing. To compare […]
Open Scholarship and Open Infrastructure: “Desirable Characteristics of Persistent Identifiers”
Data Files, Management and Leadership, News, Scholarly Communications
|From a New Upstream Post by John Chodacki (CDL) and Todd Carpenter (NISO): Persistent identifiers (PIDs) in scholarly communications and research infrastructure have garnered growing attention over the last several years, especially from governments who are recognizing the vital role PIDs play in creating a more efficient and trustworthy research ecosystem. However, varying degrees of […]
21 De Gruyter Journals to Be Published Open Access Under Subscribe To Open (S2O) Model In 2024; California is Finally Digitizing Its 100-Year-Old Paper Water Rights; & More Headlines
Digital Preservation, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access
|Alabama CNN host, Prattville Native Kaitlan Collins Interviews Fired Prattville Library Director (via AR) Prattville Library Cuts Hours, Programs As Staff Quit: ‘Hard To Have Hope’ (via AL.com) Arkansas Policing Libraries, aka Book Banning, Moves a Step Further In Arkansas (via Arkansas Times) California EveryLibrary and PEN America Statement on Huntington Beach Censorship Committees Digitization […]