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From the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: We’re in the midst of a revolution in science communication. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is at the forefront of this changing landscape. Ten years ago, CSHL launched bioRxiv (pronounced bio-archive). This innovative platform gives millions of readers across the globe free access to thousands of studies as “preprints” before they […]
Journal Article: “The Future of Data in Research Publishing: From Nice to Have to Need to Have?”
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|The article linked below (just accepted version) was recently posted by HSDR (Harvard Data Science Review). Title The Future of Data in Research Publishing: From Nice to Have to Need to Have Authors Christine L Borgman UCLA Amy Brand MIT Press Source Harvard Data Science Review (2023) DOI: 10.1162/99608f92.b73aae77 Abstract Science policy promotes open access […]
Number of Countries with Open Science Policies Has Almost Doubled Since Adoption of UNESCO Recommendation; Digital Curation Network (DCN) Response to NSF Public Access Plan 2.0; & More Headlines
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|Digital Curation Network (DCN) DCN Response to NSF Public Access Plan 2.0 Events Lecture: National Libraries in the Digital Era―Focusing on the Strategies of the National Library of the Netherlands (via National Diet Library, Japan) ||| Presentation Materials?Slides ||| Video Recording UNESCO Number of Countries with Open Science Policies Has Almost Doubled Since Adoption of […]
Association of Research Libraries: Andrew K. Pace Named ARL’s New Executive Director
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|Here’s the Full Text of ARL’s Announcement: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is pleased to welcome Andrew K. Pace as its next executive director, effective February 1, 2024. Andrew joins ARL from the University System of Maryland and Affiliated Institutions (USMAI) Library Consortium, where he has served as executive director since 2022. At USMAI, […]
Global Press Archive CRL Alliance Launches Open-Access Liberian Newspaper Archive; New Book: Rethinking Institutional Repositories: Innovations in Management, Collections, and Inclusion; & More Headlines
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|AI/GPT An Analysis of Microsoft’s Bing Chat Generative AI and Elections: Are Chatbots a Reliable Source of Information For Voters? Report News Release/Summary Media Coverage (via WaPo) Center for Research Libraries Global Press Archive CRL Alliance Launches Open-Access Liberian Newspaper Archive File Formats File Formats Team at the Library of Congress Shares Update (via LC) […]
New Report From OCLC Research: “Building RDM Capacity Through Strategic Library Collaboration”
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|From OCLC Research: OCLC Research has published the new report Building Research Data Management Capacity: Case Studies in Strategic Library Collaboration, which provides actionable recommendations based on real-world case studies that libraries can apply to make their own collaborations successful and sustainable. Research data management is an increasingly vital strategic interest for academic libraries, and many […]
NY Review of Books: Robert Darnton Reviews Peter Baldwin’s, “Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All”
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|From Robert Darnton’s NYRB Review: In Athena Unbound Baldwin takes a hard look at the world of knowledge. Have no illusions, he warns: journal publishers are gouging their customers, scholarly monographs reach a tiny audience, libraries are floundering under budget pressures, academics are pursuing careers rather than truth, and readers are not getting all the information they […]
From a COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) Post: Open Science is ushering in a new paradigm for research; one in which all researchers have unprecedented access to the full corpus of research for analysis, text and data mining, and other new research methods. A prerequisite for achieving this vision is a strong and well-functioning […]
A New Issue of Code4Lib Journal (Issue 58) is Now Available Online
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|Direct to Complete Table of Contents + Abstracts (Issue 58, December 4, 2023) Direct to Articles Editorial Enhancing Serials Holdings Data: A Pymarc-Powered Clean-Up Project The Use of Python to Support Technical Services Work in Academic Libraries Pipeline or Pipe Dream: Building a Scaled Automated Metadata Creation and Ingest Workflow Using Web Scraping Tools A […]
New White Paper: “Access to Science and Scholarship: Key Questions About the Future of Research Publishing”
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|From MIT Press: The project—including MIT Press’s Director and Publisher Amy Brand and Director of Journals and Open Access Nick Lindsay—examines the current state of the research enterprise and what might come nextThe MIT Press is proud to collaborate with our colleagues across the Institute on the release of “Access to Science and Scholarship: Key […]