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Belonging Matters — A Call to Action For the Publishing and Book Sector (Joint Statement From IFLA, IPA, and Others)
| Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Publishing
EIBF: International Booksellers Federation IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations IBBY: International Board on Books for Young People IPA (International Publishers Association) PEN International Today, leading voices from international organizations across the publishing and book sector come together to launch the statement “Belonging Matters — For Our Sector, Our Societies, and the Stories We Share.” […]
Company News: Wiley Announces Launch of “AI Gateway” Interoperable Platform, Integrates Scholarly Content Into Anthropic’s Claude, AWS Marketplace, Mistral AI’s Le Chat, and Perplexity
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, News, Publishing
From a Wiley News Release: Wiley today announced the launch of Wiley AI Gateway, the industry’s first AI-native research intelligence platform that provides researchers access to trusted content from world-leading scholarly publishers through a single endpoint. Unlike closed ecosystems that require researchers to adopt proprietary tools, Wiley AI Gateway prioritizes intentional interoperability, seamlessly integrating scholarly […]
Policy Paper: Mapping Relevant Data Collection Mechanisms for AI Training
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Journal Articles, Maps, News
From the OECD: The performance and reliability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are closely linked to the quality and diversity of the data used in their training. While the technical aspects of model development often take centre stage, the underlying methods for sourcing and assembling training data are equally relevant. Different data collection mechanisms bring […]
Media Roundup & Statements: “Judge Approves $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement Between AI Company Anthropic and Authors”
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Reports, Roundup
From the Court Docket (9/25) From the Associated Press U.S. District Judge William Alsup issued the preliminary approval in San Francisco federal court Thursday after the two sides worked to address his concerns about the settlement, which will pay authors and publishers about $3,000 for each of the books covered by the agreement. It does […]
Liblicense-l to Join the Charleston Hub
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Scholarly Communications
From a Charleston Hub Release: Charleston Hub is pleased to announce that, effective today, Liblicense-l, a long-running, distinguished mail group and archive in the library and scholarly communications space, will be joining its family of resources. For nearly 30 years, Liblicense-l has connected libraries, publishers, academics, and many other members of the information community with announcements and discussion about […]
Report: AI Tool Detects LLM-Generated Text in Research Papers and Peer Reviews
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Journal Articles, News, Publishing, Reports
From Nature: An analysis of tens of thousands of research-paper submissions has shown a dramatic increase in the presence of text generated using artificial intelligence (AI) in the past few years, an academic publisher has found. The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) found that 23% of abstracts in manuscripts and 5% of peer-review reports […]
From the BLC Website: In alignment with BLC’s strategic initiative to enhance resource sharing systems, the ILL Systems Evaluation Working Group has developed a set criteria to aid libraries and consortia in evaluating the functionality of their resource sharing software. We encourage others in the resource sharing community to utilize these criteria to identify local […]
Media Roundup + Statements: “Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors”
| Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Libraries, News, Roundup
Primary Document: Settlement Agreement (39 pages; PDF) (via CourtListener) From The NY Times: In a landmark settlement, Anthropic, a leading artificial intelligence company, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to a group of authors and publishers after a judge ruled it had illegally downloaded and stored millions of copyrighted books. The settlement is largest payout […]
Journal Article: AI For Scientific Integrity: Detecting Ethical Breaches, Errors, and Misconduct in Manuscripts
| Data Files, Frontiers, News, Publishing, Reports
The article linked below was recently published by Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. Title Journal Article: AI For Scientific Integrity: Detecting Ethical Breaches, Errors, and Misconduct in Manuscripts Authors Diogo Pellegrina University of Saskatchewan Mohamed Helmy University of Saskatchewan Idaho State University Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore Source Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Volume 8 […]
Report: “Bring Your Own Brain? Why Local LLMs are Taking Off”
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, News, Patrons and Users
From The Register: Companies that advocate for local LLMs also cite technological democracy as a driver. “AI is one of the greatest sources of leverage humanity has ever had,” says Emre Can Kartal, growth engineer and lead at Jan, a project from Menlo Research to build locally run models and the tools that manage them. “Our […]
