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Journal Article: “Teaching Counts! Open Educational Resources as an Object of Measurement For Scientometric Analysis”
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The article linked below was recently published by Quantitative Science Studies (QSS). Title Teaching Counts! Open Educational Resources as an Object of Measurement For Scientometric Analysis Author Sylvia Kullmann DIPF Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education Source Quantitative Science Studies 1-24 DOI: 10.1162/qss_a_00346 Abstract At present, performance assessment in science focuses mainly on scientific […]
The article linked below was recently published by Scientific Reports. Title Use of Large Language Models as Artificial Intelligence Tools in Academic Research and Publishing Among Global Clinical Researchers Authors Tanisha Mishra Edward Sutanto Rini Rossanti Nayana Pant Anum Ashraf Akshay Raut Germaine Uwabareze Ajayi Oluwatomiwa Bushra Zeeshan Source Scientific Reports Volume 14, Article number: 31672 (2024) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-81370-6 […]
Journal Article: “College Students’ Credibility Assessments Of GenAI-Generated Information For Academic Tasks: An Interview Study”
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The article linked below was recently published by JASIST (Journal of the Association For Information Science and Technology) Title College Students’ Credibility Assessments Of GenAI-Generated Information For Academic Tasks: An Interview Study Authors Wonchan Choi University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Hyerin Bak University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Jiaxin An University of Texas at Austin Yan Zhang University of Texas […]
Reports/Statements: “Arkansas Book-Censorship Law Ruled Unconstitutional”
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From the Arkansas Times: A federal judge on Monday ruled the two most contentious parts of Arkansas’s book-censorship law unconstitutional and permanently blocked them from taking effect. An appeal is planned. Judge Timothy Brooks of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas struck down Sections 1 and 5 of Act 372, which the Legislature passed last year. […]
Association of American Publishers (AAP) Releases New Data Overall Publishing Industry Up 8.3% for Month of October, and Up 7.1% Year-To-Date (October 2024 StatShot Report)
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From AAP: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released its StatShot report for October 2024 reflecting reported revenue for Trade (Consumer Books), Religious Presses, Higher Education Course Materials, and Professional Publishing. Total revenues across all categories for October 2024 were up 8.3% as compared to October 2023, coming in at $1.4 billion. Year-to-date revenues […]
The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Title Use of ChatGPT to Explore Gender and Geographic Disparities in Scientific Peer Review Authors Paul Sebo University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Source Journal of Medical Internet Research DOI: 10.2196/57667 Abstract Background:In the realm of scientific research, peer review serves as […]
New Data: Louisiana Public Library Usage Continues to Climb
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From the Louisiana Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Department of Culture, Recreation, & Tourism: Public libraries in Louisiana recorded more than 10 million visits in 2023, marking double-digit growth over the prior year, newly released figures show, as libraries increased the number of programs offered, and the public used more Wi-Fi. The State Library of […]
Case Over: Internet Archive Decides Not to Pursue Supreme Court Review in Copyright Lawsuit (Roundup of Statements and Media Reports)
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Statement From Internet Archive While we are deeply disappointed with the Second Circuit’s opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the Internet Archive has decided not to pursue Supreme Court review. We will continue to honor the Association of American Publishers (AAP) agreement to remove books from lending at their member publishers’ requests. We thank the many readers, […]
From Oxford University Press: Oxford University Press (OUP) has named ‘brain rot’ as the Oxford Word of the Year 2024, following a public vote that saw more than 37,000 people worldwide have their say. ‘Brain rot’ was one of the six contenders shortlisted by OUP’s language experts to reflect some of the moods and conversations that have shaped the past year. Selected […]
Digital Preservation: “Act Now to Stop Millions of Research Papers From Disappearing”
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From a Nature Editorial: Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, which Nature reported on earlier this year, was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve, who studies technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of London. Eve sampled more than seven million articles with unique digital object identifiers (DOIs), a […]
