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AI Citation Parsing and Analysis with Language Models (preprint via arXiv) Archives/Web Archives As Trump’s White House Purges Public Records, These Independent Databases are Keeping Their Own Archives (via Time) GitHub Repository Complexity Leads to Diminished Web Archive Availability (preprint; via arXiv) Scholarly Communications Predicting the Longevity of Resources Shared in Scientific Publications (via Humanities […]
Journal Article: “Podcasting as Open Access: A Review and Discussion of Potential Impact on Scholarly Communication and Promotion”
| Libraries, News, Open Access, Podcasts
The article linked below was published today by the Journal of Librarianship & Scholarly Communication (JLSC). Title Podcasting as Open Access: A Review and Discussion of Potential Impact on Scholarly Communication and Promotion Authors Allison Symulevich University of South Florida Matt Torrence University of South Florida Jason Boczar University of South Florida Jessica Szempruch University […]
Carnegie Mellon University Announces Reappointment of Keith Webster as the Helen and Henry Posner, Jr. Dean of the University Libraries
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access
From a Letter to the CMU Community by James H. Garrett Jr., Provost and Chief Academic Officer: Dear Members of the Carnegie Mellon University Community, I am delighted to announce the reappointment of Keith Webster as the Helen and Henry Posner, Jr. Dean of the University Libraries. Since his appointment in July 2013, Dean Webster, […]
From Project Muse (Full Text of Announcement): Project MUSE, a division of Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, announces today a new landmark in the Museum’s longstanding Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945 (ECG) series: ECG volumes I-IV are now fully searchable, open access digital publications freely available to everyone around the world. […]
Brown University: “Collaborative Project Yields New Digital Archive on Hidden History of Indigenous Enslavement”
| Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Maps, News, Open Access
From Brown University: Scholars estimate that between 1492 and the 1900s, at least 2.5 million Indigenous people in the Americas were taken from their communities and forced into enslavement and servitude. Just like the transatlantic slave trade, the phenomenon shaped United States history — yet few schoolchildren learn about it today. That could change with […]
Research Article: “Making the Connection: An Examination of Institutional Repositories and Scholarly Communication Crosslinking Practices”
| Academic Libraries, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users
The article linked below was recently published by College & Research Libraries (C&RL). Title Making the Connection: An Examination of Institutional Repositories and Scholarly Communication Crosslinking Practices Authors Emily Kilcer Harvard Library Lauren Puzier University at Albany Carol Anne Germain University at Albany Source College & Research Libraries Vol 86, No 3 (2025) DOI: 10.5860/crl.86.3.449 […]
The article linked below (full text) was recently published by the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. Title Implementation of Transformative Agreements at the University of Chicago Library: A Case Study Authors Jessica Harris University of Chicago Library Greg Fleming University of Chicago Library Jennifer Hart University of Chicago Library Adrian K. Ho University of […]
“How Libraries and Scholarly Publishers Can Work Together Toward Born-accessible Publishing”
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Scholarly Communications
From a Scholarly Kitchen Guest Post by: Katherine Klosek, Association of Research Libraries Simon Holt, Elsevier Katherine McColgan, Canadian Association of Research Libraries Judith C. Russell, University of Florida According to the Accessible Books Consortium, less than 10% of published works globally include features that allow them to be used by people with perceptual disabilities. That […]
AI News Roundup: New Data From COAR: “Repositories are Being Profoundly Impacted by AI Bots and Other Crawlers”; “Springer Nature Donates its Unique AI Tool That Identifies Problematic Text to Publishing Community”; & More Headlines
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, News, Open Access, Publishing, Roundup, Springer Nature
Bots/Crawling As AI Lawsuits Mount, Publishers Still Struggle to Block the Bots (via Digiday)Note: An archived version of this article available here. LLMs Generalization Bias in Large Language Model Summarization of Scientific Research (via Royal Society Open) This Data Set Helps Researchers Spot Harmful Stereotypes in LLMs (via Technology Review) Repositories New Data From COAR: Repositories […]
Make Data Count: “Leveraging Data Citations to Respond to Libraries’ Data Evaluation Needs”
| Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access
From a Make Data Count Blog Post by Clare Dean: Libraries play an important role in driving adoption of open data, and they have an increasing focus on understanding dataset usage and impact. This information is key in order for institutions to gain information about the diverse research outputs contributed by their researchers, and to […]
