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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”
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, Interviews, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Reports
|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 […]
Call for SCOSS Expressions of Interest 2024: Open Science Infrastructure and Services are Invited to Apply for Funding; American Library Association Council Elects Nick Buron, Peter Coyl and Dr. Corinthia Price to Executive Board for 2024-2027 Term; and More News Headlines
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries
|American Library Association (ALA) American Library Association Council Elects Nick Buron, Peter Coyl, and Dr. Corinthia Price to Executive Board for 2024-2027 Term Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Call for SCOSS Expressions of Interest 2024: Open Science Infrastructure and Services are Invited to Apply for Funding Idaho New ‘Library Porn’ Bill No Longer Reclassifies Obscenity […]
AI Allen Institute for AI (AI2) Releases OLMo 7B, “a Truly Open” State-of-the-Art LLM Can This A.I.-Powered Search Engine Replace Google? It Has for Me (via NY Times) Ed. Note: I had the opportunity to discuss and demo the search tool discussed in the article at the CNI Fall 2023 Meeting. Video here. New Nonpartisan […]
Diamond Open Access: DIAMAS Publishes Institutional Publishing Landscape Survey Results
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Reports
|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 […]
DataCite Launches First Release of the Data Citation Corpus
Dashboards, Data Files, Funding, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users
|From a Make Data Count Post: DataCite, in partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), is delighted to announce the first release of the Data Citation Corpus. A major milestone in the Make Data Count initiative, the release makes eight million data citations openly available and usable for the first time via an interactive dashboard and […]
WYSO Gets $5 Million Grant to Preserve Black College Radio Archives at 29 HBCUs
Archives and Special Collections, Funding, News, Preservation
|From the Dayton Daily News: A $5 million grant to a Yellow Springs-based public radio station will fund the preservation of radio material for every Historically Black College or University that has a radio station in the country. WYSO has been awarded major funding from the Mellon Foundation to support The HBCU Radio Preservation Project, […]
Elton John and Bernie Taupin to Receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
Awards, Funding, Jobs, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Preservation
|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Library of Congress Release : Elton John and Bernie Taupin, one of the great songwriting duos of all time, will be the 2024 recipients of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today. The prize is named for another legendary songwriting […]
Library Data: IMLS Launches New State Library Administrative Agency (SLAA) Survey Comparison Tool
Academic Libraries, Dashboards, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|From IMLS: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has launched a new State Library Administrative Agency (SLAA) Survey Comparison Tool on IMLS.gov.The SLAA Survey Comparison Tool is an online dashboard that allows users to select and compare data from up to 3 states collected from the biennial SLAA Survey in a visually accessible […]
The Second Digital Transformation of Scholarly Publishing: Strategic Context and Shared Infrastructure was published today (Jan. 29. 2024) by Ithaka S+R. The report was written by: Tracy Bergstrom Oya Y. Rieger Roger C. Schonfeld From an Introductory Blog Post: In a report published today, with funding from STM Solutions and five STM members, we argue that […]