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Interview with Co-Authors: “Open Science Policies: What About Equity and Inclusion?”
Data Files, Interviews, News, Open Access, Profiles, Publishing, Scholarly Communications
|From ZBW MediaTalk: The study “The neglect of equity and inclusion in open science policies of Europe and the Americas” was published in November 2023 and used a qualitative document research approach. One of its findings is that Open Science policies tend to focus on a narrow set of practices, particularly Open Access and Open Data, and […]
New Today: Ithaka S+R Publishes “The Research Data Services Landscape at US and Canadian Higher Education Institutions”
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News
|Today, Ithaka S+R published the report, The Research Data Services Landscape at US and Canadian Higher Education Institutions. The report (10.18665/sr.320420) was written by Ruby MacDougall and Dylan Ruediger. From the Introduction: Ithaka S+R has been following trends in research data services for several years as part of our research into the support needs associated […]
New Data: American Library Association (ALA) Reports Record Number of Unique Book Titles Challenged In 2023, Public Libraries Saw 92 Percent Increase in Number of Titles Targeted for Censorship Over the Previous Year
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Reports, School Libraries
|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s ALA Announcement: The number of titles targeted for censorship surged 65 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, reaching the highest levels ever documented by the American Library Association (ALA). The new numbers released today show efforts to censor 4,240 unique book titles* in schools and libraries. This tops the previous high […]
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 […]
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 […]
Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab Launches the Open Legal AI Workbench
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|From a Library Innovation Lab Post: We want academics and nonprofits at the table in discovering the next generation of legal interfaces and helping to close the justice gap. It is not at all clear yet which legal AI tools and interfaces will work effectively for people with different levels of skill, what kind of […]
Libraries 24-7 Library Spaces Drive Commuter Student Success (via IHE) Make Data Count Community Feedback and Use Cases for the First Release of the Data Citation Corpus (via MDC) Wikipedia Wikimedia Foundation Launches “Wikipedia Needs More Women” Campaign U.S. Copyright Office U.S. Copyright Office Announces Webinar on Copyright Essentials: Myths Explained