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From a CORE Blog Post: On March 22, 2024, the AI for the Research Ecosystem workshop (#AI4RE) took place in London, kindly hosted by UCL in the wonderful surroundings of Chandler House. The workshop was part of the Turing Institue’s AI UK Fringe series of events which took place around the U.K. The workshop focused on the […]
Call for Presentations — GW Ethics in Publishing Conference 2024
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|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 […]
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 […]
OCLC Global Council Ratifies Plans to Streamline Council Structure, Increase Member Engagement
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|From an OCLC Release: Following a comprehensive governance study, the OCLC Global Council ratified plans to establish a new council structure to clarify its role and increase member engagement. The new OCLC Leaders Council will be phased in over the next year with a clear purpose: to provide library perspectives that inform OCLC’s strategic goals […]
From HT: Today HathiTrust is excited to announce the release of its new Strategic Vision. Approved by the Board of Governors at their last quarterly meeting, the Strategic Vision was created through an intensive, year-long effort with partners, Athenaeum 21, to imagine HathiTrust’s future. In its first 15 years, HathiTrust has collected, preserved, and provided […]
A University Librarian Asks: How Do We Rescue the Past?; Preview Upcoming Improvements to PubMed Central; & More Headlines
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, News, Podcasts, Publishing
|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 […]
Video Recordings: Keynotes and Presentations From the RLUK24 Conference
Academic Libraries, EBSCO, Frontiers, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Video Recordings
|The RLUK24 (Research Libraries UK) “New Frontiers: The Expanding Scope of the Modern Research Library” took place virtually from March 22-24, 2024. Below, find links to video recordings of conference keynotes, panels, workshops, and roundtables. You can also access a video playlist of these sessions on YouTube. The complete event agenda is available here. Video […]
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
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|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 […]
From the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF): The EU-funded Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by ECMWF, has provided new tools to make it easier for users to explore how the climate has been changing and how it could change in the future. They include the Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas, which enables data from a […]