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AAP: “Publishers File Brief Opposing Internet Archive Appeal of Loss” (Hachette Book Group, et al, v. Internet Archive)
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Funding, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Reports
|Will be updating this post with media coverage, documents, amicus briefs and other filings, etc. At the bottom of this post you will find a link to the Internet Archive’s brief and other materials. From the Association of American Publishers (AAP): Today, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin Random House, and Wiley (the “Plaintiffs”), filed […]
Funding: OurResearch Receives $7.5 Million Grant From Arcadia To Establish OpenAlex, a Milestone Development For Open Science
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From an OurResearch Blog Post: OurResearch is proud to announce a $7.5M grant from Arcadia, to establish a sustainable and completely open index of the world’s research ecosystem. With this 5-year grant, OurResearch expands their open science ambitions to replace paywalled knowledge graphs with OpenAlex. Researchers, funders, and organizations around the world rely on scientific […]
Report: Australia’s Chief Scientist Takes On the Journal Publishers Gatekeeping Knowledge
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Elsevier, Funding, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From The Guardian: Australia’s chief scientist, Dr Cathy Foley, has placed open access firmly on the agenda before her three-year tenure ends in December. Her world-first open access model, recently finalised for the federal government, would provide a centralised digital library for all Australians to access research papers free of charge, as long as they […]
Roundup: Predicting the Unpredictable: Asking Real Questions About Generative AI; Beyond Books, Louisiana’s Libraries are Stepping In to Help People Afford Food and More; & More Headlines
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|AI Meta AI Creates Ahistorical Images, Like Google Gemini (via Axios) Predicting the Unpredictable: Asking Real Questions About Generative AI (by Lorcan Dempsey, via via American Libraries) American Library Association ALA Awards $3.6 Million In Library Accessibility Funding to 310 Small and Rural Libraries CLIR: Council on Library and Information CLIR Postdocs Delve into Equitable […]
From NPR: A growing number of states and local libraries are cutting ties with the nation’s predominant library professional association, saying the ALA has become too radical. On Thursday, a bill that would go further than any other passed the Georgia state Senate in a 33-to-20 vote and now heads to the House. Republican state […]
“The Cost and Price of Public Access to Research Data: A Synthesis” (New Paper by Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI))
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|The paper linked from below was recently made available by Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) via Zenodo. Title The Cost and Price of Public Access to Research Data: A Synthesis Authors Gail Steinhart Invest in Open Infrastructure Katherine Skinner Invest in Open Infrastructure Source Invest in Open Infrastructure (via Zenodo) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10729575 Abstract Beginning on […]
Springer Nature Announces Unified Open Code Policy; Plan S Releases Annual Review 2023; & More News Headlines
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, News, Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Communications, Springer Nature
|AI Digital Science Announces Catalyst Grant Winners, Supporting AI-Based Innovations to Benefit Research Institutional Efforts to Help Academic Researchers Implement Generative AI in Research (HDSR) ProQuest, Part of Clarivate, Launches AI-Powered Research Assistant Repositories COAR Annual Conference Will Be Held June 6-7, 2024 (in conjunction with the Open Repositories Conference (Gothenburg, Sweden) Plan S Plan […]
UPDATE March 4, 2024 More News From Digital Science: New AI-Powered Summarization Launched for Dimensions Digital Science is delighted to announce the launch of AI-driven summarization in Dimensions, a new feature to support the user in their discovery process for publications, grants, patents and clinical trials. [Clip] Today’s announcement follows last week’s release of Dimensions Research GPT and […]
University of Maryland Libraries Announces Go-Live Date For Migration to New Library Search Platform; Why Data Breaches Spiked in 2023; & More Headlines
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|European Commission Commission Opens Formal Proceedings Against TikTok Under the Digital Services Act (via EC) Information Security Why Data Breaches Spiked in 2023 (via Harvard Business Review) Pennsylvania Shapiro Administration Awards Nearly $4.5 Million in Keystone Grants To 17 Public Libraries (Penn. Dept. Education) University of Maryland University of Maryland Libraries Announces Go-Live Date For […]
New Research Tools: “OMB Stands Up First Online Database of All Federal Programs”
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|From Federal News Radio: It took 13 years — with some stops, starts and stumbles in between — but as of today, the federal government now has a single website designed to deliver detailed, searchable information about all federal programs. The Office of Management and Budget flipped the switch Thursday on the new Federal Program Inventory, […]