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Sage Acquires GOOD DOCS, Distributor of Film Documentaries; The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI; & More Headlines
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Alabama ‘Extremists’: Alabama GOP Chair, Anti-Censorship Group Blast Each Other Over Libraries (via AL.com) AI Microsoft Pitches AI ‘Agents’ That Can Perform Tasks on Their Own (via AP) State Department Reveals New Interagency Task Force On Detecting AI-Generated Content (via FedScoop) The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI (via WIRED) […]
New Data, Trends: Urban Libraries Council (ULC) Releases 2024 Library Insights Report
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From ULC: This summer, the Urban Libraries Council asked its 187 member libraries across the U.S. and Canada to participate in the second-annual Library Insights Survey (LIS), compiling 2023 data to build on pre-pandemic trends tracked from 2019-2022. Today, we proudly release the 2024 Library Insights Report. The 2024 report provides a data-driven view of post-pandemic […]
Research Tools (Prototype): University of Washington & Allen Institute for AI (the People Behind Semantic Scholar) Announce the Launch of Ai2 Open Scholar
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Ed. Note: The Ai2 OpenScholar demo currently available provides responses from a datastore of computer science papers (open-access only) NOT the complete Semantic Scholar database. We look forward to seeing the demo grow to include more papers from more disciplines. We’re also excited to see what others do with the open source code and tools […]
Clarivate Releases Highly Cited Researchers 2024 List; Altmetric Now Tracks Clinical Impact of Research; & More Headlines
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AI AI Companies Are Trying to Get MIT Press Books (via 404 Media) Could Artificial Intelligence Help Catalog Thousands of Digital Library Books? An Interview with Abigail Potter and Caroline Saccucci (via Library of Congress) Altmetric Altmetric Now Tracks Clinical Impact of Research Clarivate Clarivate Releases Highly Cited Researchers 2024 List ||| Direct to the […]
From a 404 Media Report: A spokesperson for HarperCollins told 404 Media in a statement: HarperCollins has reached an agreement with an artificial intelligence technology company to allow limited use of select nonfiction backlist titles for training AI models to improve model quality and performance. While we believe this deal is attractive, we respect the […]
The MIT Press Releases Report on the Future of Open Access Publishing and Policy
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From MIT Press: Today, the MIT Press is releasing a comprehensive report that addresses how open access policies shape research and what is needed to maximize their positive impact on the research ecosystem. The report, entitled “Access to Science & Scholarship 2024: Building an Evidence Base to Support the Future of Open Research Policy,” is […]
New Research Brief From IOI: “Community Infrastructure to Further Open Research Software”
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From a New Invest in Open Infrastructure Research Brief: At Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI), we are working to understand the landscape of research software and to identify the gaps, challenges, and opportunities for advancing its sustainability and resilience. This research brief is a first output of a broader project (funded by the Sloan Foundation, October 2024-January 2025) […]
Google Scholar Turns 20! 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Scholar
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Ed. Note: Google Scholar launched on Wednesday, November 17, 2004. Here’s a post about Google Scholar from November 18, 2024 (ResourceShelf via Wayback Machine) that I co-authored. Additionally, two media reports about the launch from NBC News and Ars Technica. The “About Google Scholar” page from November 20, 2004 can be accessed (via Wayback) here. […]
From an Authors Alliance Blog Post: Authors Alliance and SPARC have released the first of four planned white papers addressing legal issues surrounding open access to scholarly publications under the 2022 OSTP memo (the “Nelson Memo”). The white papers are part of a larger project (described here) to support legal pathways to open access. This first paper discusses […]
Research Article (preprint): “Journal Quality Factors From ChatGPT: More Meaningful Than Impact Factors?
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The research article linked below (preprint) was recently shared on arXiv. Title Journal Quality Factors From ChatGPT: More Meaningful Than Impact Factors Authors Mike Thelwall University of Sheffield Kayvan Kousha University of Wolverhampton Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2411.09984 Abstract Purpose: Journal Impact Factors and other citation-based indicators are widely used and abused to help select […]
