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New Data: American Library Association (ALA) Reports Record Number of Unique Book Titles Challenged In 2023, Public Libraries Saw 92 Percent Increase in Number of Titles Targeted for Censorship Over the Previous Year
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|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s ALA Announcement: The number of titles targeted for censorship surged 65 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the highest levels ever documented by the American Library Association (ALA). The new numbers released today show efforts to censor 4,240 unique book titles* in schools and libraries. This tops the previous high […]
The article linked below was published today by the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). Title To Preprint or Not to Preprint: A Global Researcher Survey Authors Rong Ni Nanyang Centre for Public Administration (NCPA), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands […]
What Motivates People to Trust ‘AI’ Systems?; ORCID Releases 2023 Annual Report ; & More Headlines
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Reports
|AI Combating Deepfakes (Spotlight Brief, via GAO) Google Restricts Gemini From Answering Election-Related Queries Worldwide (via MediaPost) Guiding Your AI Journey: Essential Resources (via JISC) What Motivates People to Trust ‘AI’ Systems? (preprint, via arXiv) Internet Fibre and Fixed Wireless Access are the Two Fastest Growing Fixed Broadband Technologies in the OECD (via OECD) ORCID […]
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 […]
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 […]
From an EveryLibrary Institute Blog Post: In “Divisive Politics and Threats to Academic Libraries,” the EveryLibrary Institute hopes to encourage academic librarians to proactively redefine their roles, engage in policy advocacy, and acquire the advanced training needed to lead in an environment that is fraught with legislative and ideological challenges. We have analyzed the situation […]
From OECD: As roughly half the world’s population prepares to vote in elections, a new OECD report offers the first baseline assessment of how OECD countries are upgrading their governance measures to support an environment where reliable information can thrive, prioritising freedom of expression and human rights, and sets out a policy framework for countries […]
University of Minnesota Libraries Unveils One of the Largest Public Human Rights Archives
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|From the University of Minnesota Libraries: The University of Minnesota now has one of the largest human rights archives at a public university, and it’s already helping researchers, educators, and human rights advocates across the globe. “With everything that’s happening in the world, if we can highlight aspects of the history of human rights, maybe […]
From an Interesting and Informative Crossref Blog Post by Martin Eve: Crossref holds metadata for approximately 150 million scholarly artifacts. These range from peer reviewed journal articles through to scholarly books through to scientific blog posts. In fact, amid such heterogeneity, the only singular factor that unites such items is that they have been assigned […]