MORE 'OPEN-ACCESS' POSTS
From Ouvir la Science/ French Committee for Open Science: Last December, the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR) established a multi-year partnership with OpenAlex. The partnership project between MESR and OpenAlex, part of the Second National Plan for Open Science from 2021, underlines the importance for France of participating on an international scale in the […]
New From The Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School: “WARC-GPT: An Open-Source Tool for Exploring Web Archives Using AI”
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users
|From the Library Innovation Lab, Harvard Law School: Today we’re releasing WARC-GPT: an open-source, highly-customizable Retrieval Augmented Generation [RAG] tool the web archiving community can use to explore the intersection between web archiving and AI. WARC-GPT allows for creating custom chatbots that use a set of web archive files as their knowledge base, letting users explore collections through […]
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 […]
Call for SCOSS Expressions of Interest 2024: Open Science Infrastructure and Services are Invited to Apply for Funding; American Library Association Council Elects Nick Buron, Peter Coyl and Dr. Corinthia Price to Executive Board for 2024-2027 Term; and More News Headlines
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries
|American Library Association (ALA) American Library Association Council Elects Nick Buron, Peter Coyl, and Dr. Corinthia Price to Executive Board for 2024-2027 Term Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Call for SCOSS Expressions of Interest 2024: Open Science Infrastructure and Services are Invited to Apply for Funding Idaho New ‘Library Porn’ Bill No Longer Reclassifies Obscenity […]
Diamond Open Access: DIAMAS Publishes Institutional Publishing Landscape Survey Results
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Reports
|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 […]
Simon & Schuster Marks Centennial with List of 100 Notable Books; Creative Commons (CC) Open Education Platform Activities: 2023 in Review; & More Headlines
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Open Access
|American Library Association (ALA) American Library Association Launches National Search For Executive Director Creative Commons Creative Commons (CC) Open Education Platform Activities: 2023 in Review Library of Congress Hidden Treasures: More Rare Books in the Online Catalog (via LC) OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association) OASPA-2023 in Review OCLC Introducing the OCLC Research Library Partnership […]
DataCite Launches First Release of the Data Citation Corpus
Dashboards, Data Files, Funding, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users
|From a Make Data Count Post: DataCite, in partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), is delighted to announce the first release of the Data Citation Corpus. A major milestone in the Make Data Count initiative, the release makes eight million data citations openly available and usable for the first time via an interactive dashboard and […]
From a SPARC Europe: We are pleased to announce a new Open Education Strategy for 2024-2026, Librarians as Agents of Change. We will support Higher Education policymakers, librarians, ambassadors and facilitators of OE in Europe to implement the UNESCO OER Recommendations using a targeted and action-oriented approach. With this strategy, we aim to make the many […]
Texas: A Secret Shelf of Banned Books Thrives in a Texas School, Under the Nose of Censors; Once Upon a Click: Librarian’s Fairy Tale Journey with the Internet Archive; & More Headlines
Funding, Interviews, Libraries, News, Open Access, Profiles, Publishing
|AI OpenAI’s ChatGPT Breaches Privacy Rules, Says Italian Watchdog (via Reuters) Silverchair Announces Launch of New AI Lab, Releases Prototypes Audiobooks NY Times Report: “Audiobooks are Booming. Spotify Wants in on the Action” California NY Times Publishes Interview with John Szabo, City Librarian of Los Angeles, on the LAPL’s Recent Acquisition of a Local Publisher […]
Suzanne Wones is the New University Librarian at UC Berkeley
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Profiles
|From UC Berkeley News: UC Berkeley has chosen a new University Librarian, Suzanne L. Wones, who is associate university librarian for discovery and access at Harvard Library. Wones, with 20 years’ experience as a leader in academic libraries, will start her new post July 1, following University Librarian Jeffrey MacKie-Mason’s retirement. In a recent interview with Berkeley News, […]