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Funding: OurResearch Receives $7.5 Million Grant From Arcadia To Establish OpenAlex, a Milestone Development For Open Science
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From an OurResearch Blog Post: OurResearch is proud to announce a $7.5M grant from Arcadia, to establish a sustainable and completely open index of the world’s research ecosystem. With this 5-year grant, OurResearch expands their open science ambitions to replace paywalled knowledge graphs with OpenAlex. Researchers, funders, and organizations around the world rely on scientific […]
Consultation on Copyright in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence: Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA) Response; Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) and Google Books Formalize Their Partnership and Will Digitize More Than 100,000 Books In Three Years; & More Headlines
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries
|AI Generative AI’s Privacy Problem (via Axios) Consultation on Copyright in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence: Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA) Response Canada Celebrating a Decade of the National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS) Idaho Idaho House Passes latest ‘Library Porn’ Bill (via Boise State Public Radio) Minnesota Libraries May Be Prohibited […]
The article linked below was published today by the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). Title To Preprint or Not to Preprint: A Global Researcher Survey Authors Rong Ni Nanyang Centre for Public Administration (NCPA), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands […]
Communications of the ACM Relaunched as Open Access, Web-First Publication; Wiley Announces Pilot of New AI-Powered Papermill Detection Service; & More Headlines
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Jobs, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|ACRL Michelle Demeter Appointed College & Research Libraries Editor AI Anthropic (Providers of Claude) Launches a Library of Chatbot Prompts (via ZDNet) Croissant: A Metadata Format For ML-Ready Datasets (via Google Research) Wiley Announces Pilot of New AI-Powered Papermill Detection Service Canada Is Book Banning Coming to Canada? Libraries, Book Stores, Authors Watching Closely (about […]
What Motivates People to Trust ‘AI’ Systems?; ORCID Releases 2023 Annual Report ; & More Headlines
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Reports
|AI Combating Deepfakes (Spotlight Brief, via GAO) Google Restricts Gemini From Answering Election-Related Queries Worldwide (via MediaPost) Guiding Your AI Journey: Essential Resources (via JISC) What Motivates People to Trust ‘AI’ Systems? (preprint, via arXiv) Internet Fibre and Fixed Wireless Access are the Two Fastest Growing Fixed Broadband Technologies in the OECD (via OECD) ORCID […]
Report: Australia’s Chief Scientist Takes On the Journal Publishers Gatekeeping Knowledge
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Elsevier, Funding, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From The Guardian: Australia’s chief scientist, Dr Cathy Foley, has placed open access firmly on the agenda before her three-year tenure ends in December. Her world-first open access model, recently finalised for the federal government, would provide a centralised digital library for all Australians to access research papers free of charge, as long as they […]
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) Releases 2023 Annual Highlights Report
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Scholarly Communications
|From DOAJ News: We’re excited to share our first ‘Annual Highlights’, which outlines some of our activities, projects and statistics from 2023. 2023 has been a fantastic year for DOAJ, where we’ve not only celebrated 20 years of being a key open infrastructure, but also have reached 20,000 journals. Read the Complete Post From the […]
Scholarly Publishing: PeerJ is Becoming Part of Taylor & Francis
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), News, Open Access, Publishing
|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement From PeerJ and Taylor & Francis: Leading research publisher Taylor & Francis has announced the addition of PeerJ, a pioneer in broad-scope open access (OA) journals. PeerJ is best known for its multidisciplinary flagship title PeerJ Life & Environment serving the Biological, Medical and Environmental Sciences and PeerJ Computer Science (covering all areas […]
Bills Introduced in Michigan Senate Look to Restore the State’s School Libraries; Nature Publishes Too Few Papers From Women Researchers — That Must Change; & More News Headlines
Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, Scholarly Communications, School Libraries
|CORE CORE at Open Repositories 2024 (via CORE) Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) IMLS and Council of American Jewish Museums Partner to Address Antisemitism Michigan Bills Introduced in Michigan Senate Look to Restore the State’s School Libraries (via Michigan Public Radio) Oklahoma Metropolitan Library CEO Larry Nash White Announces Resignation in May (via […]
From an Ithaka S+R Blog Post by the Brief’s Co-Authors Dylan Ruediger and Ruby MacDougall: Today, Ithaka S+R is publishing an issue brief exploring the current state of data sharing in the humanities and what a productive engagement with data might look like. Our findings are based on semi-structured interviews with key personnel at several humanities projects […]