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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 […]
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) Releases 2023 Annual Highlights Report
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Communications
|From DOAJ News: We’re excited to share our first ‘Annual Highlights’, which outlines some of our activities, projects and statistics from 2023. 2023 has been a fantastic year for DOAJ, where we’ve not only celebrated 20 years of being a key open infrastructure, but also have reached 20,000 journals. Read the Complete Post From the […]
Scholarly Publishing: PeerJ is Becoming Part of Taylor & Francis
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|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement From PeerJ and Taylor & Francis: Leading research publisher Taylor & Francis has announced the addition of PeerJ, a pioneer in broad-scope open access (OA) journals. PeerJ is best known for its multidisciplinary flagship title PeerJ Life & Environment serving the Biological, Medical and Environmental Sciences and PeerJ Computer Science (covering all areas […]
Former Librarian, Fired After Refusing To Remove Books, Sues Llano County; Nobody Knows How AI Works; & More Headlines
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|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 […]
AI A WordPress ‘Firehose’ Allows AI Companies to Buy Access to a Million Posts a Day (via 404 Media) Ebooks UPDATE (March 6, 2024): Important Op-Ed from Connecticut Legislators (by Michael Blackwell, Readers First) –End Update– Op/Ed: Publishers Have Libraries in a Bind. We’ve Got A Novel Solution (via CT Insider) Institute of Museum and […]
The article linked below was formally published today by PLOS Biology. Title Recommendations For Accelerating Open Preprint Peer Review to Improve the Culture of Science Authors Michele Avissar-Whiting, Frédérique Belliard, Stefano M. Bertozzi, Amy Brand, Katherine Brown, Géraldine Clément-Stoneham, Stephanie Dawson, Gautam Dey, Daniel Ecer , Scott C. Edmunds, Ashley Farley, Tara D. Fischer, Maryrose […]
Springer Nature Announces Unified Open Code Policy; Plan S Releases Annual Review 2023; & More News Headlines
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|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 […]
Get Ready For the Upcoming Charleston In Between Virtual Event on Publishing Integrity; Beijing City Library Officially Opens In The City’s Emerging Sub-Center; & More News Headlines
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|American Library Association (ALA) American Library Association’s Libraries Transforming Communities Initiative Receives Additional $10 Million in Funding (via ALA) Canada Provincial Government of New Foundland and Labrardor Provides $600,000 to Provincial Public Libraries ||| Media Coverage (via VOCM) China Beijing City Library Officially Opens in the City’s Emerging Sub-Center (via Snøhetta) JSTOR Labs New Project Announcement: Universal Credit Transfer Explorer (via JSTOR […]
Invest in Open Infrastructure Introduces New Website; Europeana Foundation Releases 2024 Business Plan; & More Headlines
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|AI Are You Still Smarter Than an AI? There’s a Way to Keep Track (via NBC News) Mistral’s Next LLM Could Rival GPT-4, and You Can Try It Now in Chatbot Arena (via The Decoder) Alabama Statement From EveryLibrary: Reverse Anti-LGBTQ+ Book Buying Policy in Prattville American Library Association (ALA) ALA Opens Registration For 2024 Annual […]
The article (full text) linked below was recently published by Scientometrics. Title Can ChatGPT Be Used To Predict Citation Counts, Readership, and Social Media Interaction? An Exploration Among 2222 Scientific Abstracts Authors Joost de Winter Delft University of Technology Source Scientometrics February 15, 2024 DOI: 10.1007/s11192-024-04939-y Abstract This study explores the potential of ChatGPT, a […]