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After 17 Years Project Information Literacy (PIL) is Coming to An End, Archive of All PIL Output Now Available
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Ed. Note: The email letter below was shared with infoDOCKET yesterday and is posted with the permission of its author, Project Information Literacy (PIL) Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Alison Head. We would like to thank Alison and the PIL team for their many contributions during the past 17 years and for leaving us with […]
The research article (preprint) linked below was recently posted on TechRxiv. Title The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Autonomous Research: A Survey of Scientific Agents Authors Xinming Wang (+15 Others) Chinese Academy of Sciences Source via TechRxiv DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.175459840.02185500/v1 Abstract The advancement of LLM-based agents is redefining AI for Science (AI4S) by enabling autonomous scientific research. Prominent […]
Funding: PEN America Receives $1.4 Million From the Mellon Foundation to Support America’s Public Libraries
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Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement From PEN America. PEN America announced today a $1.4 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to fortify its work fortifying the freedom to read, with a heightened focus on supporting public libraries and librarians. This gift will enable PEN America to extend its groundbreaking research and analysis, public […]
New Research Report From Ithaka S+R: “The Current State of Academic E-Book Business Models: Access Strategies and Budgeting Realities”
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Report Authors: Tracy Bergstrom, Makala Skinner From Ithaka S+R: This study examines academic monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences across the United States and Europe to understand how current business models are functioning for their consumer base, namely libraries and authors. Through interviews with librarians, content aggregators, publishers, and authors, we gathered information on […]
From National Public Radio (NPR): Boston Public Library, one of the oldest and largest public library systems in the country, is launching a project this summer with OpenAI and Harvard Law School to make its trove of historically significant government documents more accessible to the public. [Clip] “It really is an incredible repository of primary […]
From the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics/National Science Foundation: Open-access (OA) publications are peer-reviewed research articles that are accessible online to any reader without requiring a journal subscription or payment. These publications allow global researchers and other readers access to scientific research and have reshaped the structure of scientific publishing. Government and private funders, […]
Research Resources: Big Ten Open Books Project Launches ‘Indigenous North Americans’ Collection
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Here’s the Full Text of the Launch Announcement From the BTAA (Big Ten Academic Alliance): In partnership with seven Big Ten-affiliated university presses, the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Center for Library Programs announces the expansion of the Big Ten Open Books project with the publication of the second 100-book collection. The second collection is centered […]
Company News Roundup: Items From/About Anthropic, Digital Science; Emerald, and Thomson Reuters
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+ AI For Lawyers: Thomson Reuters Launches CoCounsel Legal: Transforming Legal Work with Agentic AI and Deep Research + Anthropic Presses For Fast Appeal in Copyright Fight (via MediaPost) + Emerald Publishing to Safeguard Research Integrity with Dimensions Author Check + Google Begins Offering One Year of Free Access to Gemini Pro For College Students […]
National Library of Medicine (NLM) Announces the Relaunch of the NLM Dataset Catalog
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From the NLM Technical Bulletin: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) announces the relaunch of the NLM Dataset Catalog, a centralized, searchable platform designed to connect researchers with a vast array of biomedical datasets from multiple repositories, thus accelerating scientific research. Powered by NLM’s DATaset Metadata Model (DATMM), researchers can now effortlessly explore over 2 million […]
Coalition For Networked Information (CNI) Names Kate Zwaard as New Executive Director
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Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement From CNI: The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is pleased to welcome Kate Zwaard as its next executive director,effective September 15, 2025. Kate joins CNI from the Library of Congress (LC), where she has served since 2011, presiding over the Library’s comprehensive digital transformation and establishing the organization […]
