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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 […]
AI Chatbots’ Inaccurate, Misleading Responses About US Elections Threaten to Keep Voters From Polls Ithaka S+R Assessing the Diversity of Library Collections: Announcing a New Cohort Project Music Libraries (Yes, Libraries!) are Leading the Crusade for New Music Discovery (via SPIN) Oregon Oregon Bill that Challenges Book Bans in School Passes Senate. Bill Will Now […]
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 […]
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 […]
Association of American Publishers: Youngsuk ‘YS’ Chi, Chairman of Elsevier and Director of Corporate Affairs for RELX, Elected Chair, AAP Board of Directors; Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Evidence from an Analysis of Institutional Policies and Guidelines; & More News Headlines
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|AI Generative Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Evidence From an Analysis of Institutional Policies and Guidelines (preprint; arXiv) Google Rebrands Bard Chatbot as Gemini, Rolls Out Paid Subscription (via Reuters) Digitization Unique ‘Hidden’ Record Of UK’s Historic Biodiversity, with Links to Charles Darwin, to Be Digitised (Royal Agriculture University) Iowa Iowa’s War on Books Now […]
New York: Previewing the Rochester Public Library’s New Archive of Black History & Culture; AI Perceptions at the University of Baltimore; & More Headlines
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|AI White Paper: AI Perceptions at the University of Baltimore ||| Blog Post about the Paper From Ithaka S+R Kentucky Video: Louisville’s Western Library Holds More Than a Century of History (via WAVE) New York Previewing the Rochester Public Library’s New Archive of Black History & Culture (via WXXI) Pennsylvania Philadelphia: “Mayor Parker’s Social Media […]
AI: “Hugging Face Launches Open Source AI Assistant Maker to Rival OpenAI’s Custom GPTs”; Events: 2024 Fiesole Collection Development Retreat to Take Place in Cape Town, South Africa, on May 7-8, 2024; & More Headlines
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|AI Hugging Face Launches Open Source AI Assistant Maker to Rival OpenAI’s Custom GPTs (via VentureBeat ALA: American Library Association American Library Association Approves Updated Core Values American Library Association Opposes Proposed Georgia Legislation Connecticut 4 Library Employees Resign in One CT Town. All But 1 Member of Library Commission Replaced (via Hartford Courant via […]
American Booksellers Association Donates Archives to Columbia University
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|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s American Booksellers Association (ABA) Announcement: The American Booksellers Association (ABA) and Columbia University Libraries are happy to announce ABA’s donation of the association’s extensive organizational and bookseller archives to the university to be housed in Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML). The archives consist of first editions […]
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 […]
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 […]