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Bills Introduced in Michigan Senate Look to Restore the State’s School Libraries; Nature Publishes Too Few Papers From Women Researchers — That Must Change; & More News Headlines
Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, Scholarly Communications, School Libraries
|CORE CORE at Open Repositories 2024 (via CORE) Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) IMLS and Council of American Jewish Museums Partner to Address Antisemitism Michigan Bills Introduced in Michigan Senate Look to Restore the State’s School Libraries (via Michigan Public Radio) Oklahoma Metropolitan Library CEO Larry Nash White Announces Resignation in May (via […]
From an Ithaka S+R Blog Post by the Brief’s Co-Authors Dylan Ruediger and Ruby MacDougall: Today, Ithaka S+R is publishing an issue brief exploring the current state of data sharing in the humanities and what a productive engagement with data might look like. Our findings are based on semi-structured interviews with key personnel at several humanities projects […]
Just Published: Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives (A Special Issue of The Journal of eScience Librarianship (JeSLIB))
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Open Access
|The Journal of eScience Librarianship published a special issue titled “Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives” (Volume 13 Issue 1, 2024) on March 5, 2024. In This Issue The Implementation of Keenious at Carnegie Mellon Universitvby Joelen Pastva, Dom Jebbia, Maranda Reilly and Ashley Werlinich Open Science Recommendation Systems for Academic Librariesby Lencia Beltran, Chasz Griego […]
Former Librarian, Fired After Refusing To Remove Books, Sues Llano County; Nobody Knows How AI Works; & More Headlines
Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access
|AI Nobody Knows How AI Works (via Technology Review) Arizona State University Arizona State University Archivists Working to Collect Stories of Black Arizonans (via ABC 15 Arizona) Audiobooks Winners of Audio Publishers Association’s 2024 Audie Awards Announced (via APA) Coherent Digital Coherent Announces New Database in Public Health and Social Care Open Data Collaboration Essential […]
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 […]
AI Chatbots’ Inaccurate, Misleading Responses About US Elections Threaten to Keep Voters From Polls Ithaka S+R Assessing the Diversity of Library Collections: Announcing a New Cohort Project Music Libraries (Yes, Libraries!) are Leading the Crusade for New Music Discovery (via SPIN) Oregon Oregon Bill that Challenges Book Bans in School Passes Senate. Bill Will Now […]
From Ouvir la Science/ French Committee for Open Science: Last December, the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR) established a multi-year partnership with OpenAlex. The partnership project between MESR and OpenAlex, part of the Second National Plan for Open Science from 2021, underlines the importance for France of participating on an international scale in the […]
New From The Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School: “WARC-GPT: An Open-Source Tool for Exploring Web Archives Using AI”
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users
|From the Library Innovation Lab, Harvard Law School: Today we’re releasing WARC-GPT: an open-source, highly-customizable Retrieval Augmented Generation [RAG] tool the web archiving community can use to explore the intersection between web archiving and AI. WARC-GPT allows for creating custom chatbots that use a set of web archive files as their knowledge base, letting users explore collections through […]
From an MIT Press Post: The MIT Press proudly announces that applications are now open for shift+OPEN, an initiative designed to flip existing subscription-based journals to a diamond open access publishing model. Launched with generous funding from Arcadia and expanded with funding from the National Science Foundation, shift+OPEN seeks to catalyze needed change in journals publishing, introduce […]