MORE 'SCHOLARLY-COMMUNICATIONS' POSTS
Conference Paper: “Hallucinations in Scholarly LLMs: A Conceptual Overview and Practical Implications”
| Conference Presentations, Journal Articles, News, Scholarly Communications
The paper linked below appears in the Proceedings of the 2nd AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence). Bridge on Artificial Intelligence for Scholarly Communication. Title Hallucinations in Scholarly LLMs: A Conceptual Overview and Practical Implications Authors Naveen Lamba Sharda University, India Sanju Tiwari Sharda University, India Manas Gaur University of Maryland, Baltimore County […]
The preprint below (version 2) was recently shared on arXiv. Title How Permanent are Metadata For Research Data? Understanding Changes in DataCite Metadata (v2) Author Dorothea Strecker Humboldt-Universit¨at zu Berlin Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2412.05128 Abstract With the move towards open research information, the DOI registration agency DataCite is increasingly used as a source for […]
Consulting: Impelsys Acquires Delta Think
| Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Scholarly Communications
The acquisition was announced this morning. The full text of the announcement is found below and is also available here. Impelsys, a global technology services company, today announced the acquisition of Delta Think, a leading consultancy in scholarly communications. Together, the two companies will offer clients a powerful combination of strategy and technology expertise across […]
Roundup: New AI-Related Research and News Reports
| Data Files, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Reports, Roundup, Scholarly Communications
Most of the items listed below were published/posted in the past day or two. Chatbots Poetry Can Trick AI Chatbots Into Ignoring Safety Rules, New Research ShowsSource: Euronews Copyright Creative Grey Zones: Copyright in the Age of HybriditySource: The Alan Turing Institute Cultural Heritage Publishing Cultural Heritage Data in the Age of AISource: Europeana/Open Future […]
Listen Online: New PALABRA Archive Recordings Released for Digital Streaming
| Awards, News, Open Access
From LC: In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, which was celebrated from September 15 to October 15, the Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division (LACE) has released a new batch of unpublished recordings from the PALABRA Archive for online streaming. The PALABRA Archive is a collection of audio recordings of 20th and 21st century poets and writers […]
From a COAR Announcement: This report presents a brief overview of the socio-political landscape for scholarly communications and describes some of the major forces that could significantly impact the repository ecosystem in the coming years. The aim is to provide COAR members with a synopsis of current trends that may affect repositories as well as […]
Repositories: arXiv Receives $7 Million in Gifts and Grants From Schmidt Sciences and NASA
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access
From an arXiv Announcement: We are pleased to announce that Schmidt Sciences and NASA have generously awarded arXiv $7 million in gifts and grants, respectively, to allow arXiv to complete its technology migration project and to explore ways to improve the arXiv experience through personalized and fair discovery of new preprints. arXiv began its cloud […]
Authors Alliance: An Interview with Kate McCready (BTAA) and Charles Watkinson (UM) About the Big Ten Open Books Program
| Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, News, Open Access, Profiles, Publishing
Dave Hansen, Executive Director of the Authors Alliance, interviews Kate McCready (BTAA) and Charles Watkinson (University of Michigan Press) about the Big Ten Open Books Program that launched in 2023 and released a their second collection in August. From the Interview: Authors Alliance has had a longstanding interest in helping authors see their older books […]
Harvard Law School Library Releases First Complete Set of Digitized Nuremberg Trials Records
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation, School Libraries
From Harvard Law School Beginning today, the Harvard Law School Library is making available online the first complete, fully searchable, digitized collection of official evidentiary documents and trial transcripts in English from all 13 Nuremberg Trials, at https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/. On the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the first trial on November 20, 1945, researchers, scholars, […]
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) Releases DR-Tulu: “An Open, End-To-End Training Recipe For Long-Form Deep Research”
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From an Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) Announcement: Deep research is about building agentic systems that can plan, search, and synthesize information from diverse sources to produce in-depth, well-attributed answers to complex questions. Done well, these capabilities could accelerate scientific discovery and allow students and professionals to explore unfamiliar domains with expert-level rigor, backed […]
