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AI: “States are Introducing 50 AI-Related Bills Per Week”; “South Carolina Board of Ed Approves Order to Give State Final Say Over Books in Local Libraries”; & More News Headlines
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|AI States are Introducing 50 AI-Related Bills Per Week (via Axios) Alabama Alabama Lawmakers Want to Change Archives Oversight After Dispute Over LGBTQ+ Lecture (via AP) Coherent Digital Coherent Digital and Trojman Acquire Major Canadian Micropublisher to Create Neww Digital Collections EveryLibrary EveryLibrary Institute Announces New Editorial Board Members for The Political Librarian HathiTrust HathiTrust’s […]
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 […]
ARL Releases Two New Reports: “Making Research Data Publicly Accessible: Estimates of Institutional & Researcher Expense” & “Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative: Research Methodology 2022–2023 Surveys and Interviews”
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|From the Association of Research Libraries (ARL): In 2021 the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and six academic institutions involved in the Data Curation Network (DCN) were awarded a US National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER grant to conduct research, develop models, and collect costing information for public access to research data across from funded researchers […]
The research article (preprint) linked to below was recently published by bioRxiv. Title Structured Peer Review: Pilot Results From 23 Elsevier Journals Authors Stanford University Elsevier Source DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.01.578440 Abstract The research article (preprint) linked to below was recently published by bioRxiv. Title Structured Peer Review: Pilot Results From 23 Elsevier Journals Authors Mario Malički […]
From the University of North Carolina: A partnership between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s University Libraries and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) will create an online searchable public depository of roughly 4 million internal documents from the state of North Carolina’s $47.8 million settlement with electronic cigarette maker Juul Labs. [Clip] […]
Diamond Open Access: DIAMAS Publishes Institutional Publishing Landscape Survey Results
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|From a DIAMAS Post The publication of the survey results marks a significant milestone for DIAMAS and for Diamond Open Access. There is now a clear and intelligible picture of the European landscape of institutional publishing activities, with clear pathways to strengthen and support their operations. Our findings show how institutional publishers work, the scale […]
Research Tools: UMD-LinkUp Announce World’s First AI-Powered Job Mapping Tool to Track the Creation of AI Jobs
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|From the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland UMD-LinkUp, a collaboration between the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, LinkUp Job Market Data, and Outrigger Group, introduced the world’s first tool for mapping the creation of jobs requiring artificial intelligence skills: UMD-LinkUp AI Maps. AI Maps leverages LinkUp’s […]
From The NY Times: For decades, the Copyright Office has been a small and sleepy office within the Library of Congress. Each year, the agency’s 450 employees register roughly half a million copyrights, the ownership rights for creative works, based on a two-centuries-old law. In recent months, however, the office has suddenly found itself in […]
From Science: For two decades, advocates of open access in scientific publishing have offered a fundamental justification: Making papers immediately free for anyone to read would speed the dissemination of findings and accelerate research progress. Now, after years of little conclusive evidence to support these assertions, researchers report that open-access papers have a greater reach than paywalled ones […]
From the FDLP/GPO: The U.S. Government Publishing Office’s (GPO’s) Library Technical Services (LTS) has completed the cataloging of the Law Library of Congress Historical Reports. GPO would like to thank the Law Library of Congress for their wonderful collaboration on this project. In April 2020, the Law Library of Congress and GPO began a multi-year project […]