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Tuesday, May 27
Top o’ the Review
Americans to Business: Take AI Slow and Do It Right
(Axios)
Celebrating Outstanding Leadership: John Chodacki Receives DataCite’s Distinguished Service Award
(DataCite)
Fake AI Images Will Cause Headaches for Journals
(Nature)
See also: What Is Autoregression-Based Image Generation and How Will It Impact Document Fraud? (Jisc)
Historians Use Data Science to Mine the Past
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
In a Stunning Reversal, the Fifth Circuit Deals a Blow to the Freedom to Read
(Words & Money)
See also: US Federal Court Upholds Texas Library’s Removal of Books from Circulation (JURIST)
Media Roundup & Court Filings: “US Copyright Office Director Sues Trump Administration over Firing”
(infoDOCKET)
Navigating the Future: Key Trends in Academic Libraries for 2024
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Reeling from Trump Contract Cuts, the National Academies Prepares for “a Fairly Radical Downsizing”
(STAT)
Also from STAT: Court Orders Government to Restore Articles on LGBTQ Health
Trump Team Pauses New Student Visa Interviews as It Weighs Expanding Social Media Vetting
(Politico)
Video: A Tribute to Clifford Lynch (May 2, 2025)
(Berkeley School of Information via YouTube)
ARL Member Libraries
Beliefs About Social Dynamics and Open Science
(MIT Libraries via Royal Society Open Science)
ARL member library authors
CRL Prospectus—Annual Report
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries)
Identifying Open Access Practices in Librarianship Journals
(University of New Mexico University Libraries via Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communications)
ARL member library authors
Narratives of Journeys: Digitizing the Stefanssons’ Greenland Materials
(Dartmouth Libraries)
NLM Wants Your Input
(NLM: National Library of Medicine)
Op-Ed: Erasing History: California’s Digital News Archive Is at Risk of Going Dark
(UC Riverside Library via The Sacramento Bee)
Video: Championing Open Scholarship
(University of Saskatchewan University Library)
Higher Ed
Advocacy & Public Policy
Authors Alliance Submits Comment to FTC, Highlighting Copyright Misuse on Technology Platforms
(Authors Alliance)
Scholars & Scholarship
Video: The Growing Environmental Impact of AI Data Centers
(PBS News Hour)
See also: AI May Soon Account for Half of Data Center Power Use if Trends Persist (Tech Xplore)
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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
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Wednesday, May 28
Top o’ the Review
A Case for Libraries’ Survival in the Internet Age: Mass Digitization of Literary Works and the Legality of Controlled Digital Lending
(The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts)
Breaking Down the US Copyright Office Report on Generative AI Training and Re:Create’s “Non-Takeaways”
(Re:Create Coalition)
Call for Expressions of Interest in Hosting IATUL Events 2027
(IATUL: International Association of University Libraries)
Diamond Open Access Recommendations and Guidelines for Institutions, Funders, Sponsors, Donors, and Policymakers
(DIAMAS: Developing Institutional Open Access Publishing Models to Advance Scholarly Communication)
See also: Diamond Open Access and Open Infrastructures Have Shaped the Canadian Scholarly Journal Landscape Since the Start of the Digital Era (The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science)
Highlights from ASERL’s 2025 Annual Meeting/Spring Membership Meeting
(ASERL: Association of Southeastern Research Libraries)
RFK Jr. Threatens to Bar Government Scientists from Publishing in Leading Medical Journals
(Politico)
The “Pivot Penalty”: Scientists Get Cited Less After Switching Fields, Analysis Finds
(Nature)
ARL Member Libraries
An Evidence-Based Approach to Advancing Open Science at the University of Ottawa
(University of Ottawa Library via Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS)
ARL member library authors
An Exploration of the Impact of Educational Background on Basic Science and Life Sciences Librarians
(Emory University Libraries and The Ohio State University Libraries via Medical Reference Services Quarterly)
ARL member library authors
An Interview with Gita Manaktala, MIT Press (Systems Leadership Series)
(MIT Libraries via Educopia)
Cataloging Rare Islamicate Manuscripts
(UCLA Library)
Experimenting with Generative Artificial Intelligence on Library Blogs
(University of Michigan Library)
From Competition to Conversation: Open Research and Creative Activities (ORCA) Forum Debuts at UCR Library
(UC Riverside Library)
Libraries’ Information Literacy Scholars Produce Information Literacy Collab Journal
(Syracuse University Libraries)
Unlocking the Power of Newspapers: A Valuable Resource for Research, Teaching, and More
(University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries)
Victoria Owen Honored with CARL Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship
(University of Toronto Libraries via CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Higher Ed
Survey Reveals Strong Support for Higher Education, Opposition to DEI Program Cuts
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)
Scholars & Scholarship
The Evolution of Interdisciplinarity and Internationalization in Scientific Journals (preprint)
(bioRxiv)
What Explainable AI Is, Why It Matters, and How We Can Achieve It
(OECD.AI)
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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
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Thursday, May 29
Top o’ the Review
Access to Legal Information in Prisons: New Report
(Ithaka S+R)
Big Ten Academic Alliance and Springer Nature Announce First-Ever Unlimited Open Access Publishing Agreement in the Americas
(Big Ten Academic Alliance and Springer Nature)
Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live
(404 Media)
Early-Career Researchers Open Up on Citations in Respect to Reputation, Trust, Ethics, AI, and Much More
(Learned Publishing)
Harvard Student Body Co-president on Trump’s Effort to Ban International Students
(Here & Now, WBUR)
Integrity: COPE Goal
(COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics)
Also from COPE:
New Analysis from Springer Nature Reveals Widespread International Disparities in Research Integrity Training
(Springer Nature)
Roger Schonfeld Named Managing Director, JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
(JSTOR)
16 States Sue US National Science Foundation in Latest DEI Clash
(Courthouse News Service)
Student Visa Pause “Extraordinarily Disturbing”: Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan
(The Hill)
See also: US Will “Aggressively” Revoke Chinese Students’ Visas, Secretary of State Marco Rubio Says (NBC News)
ARL Member Libraries
With $2 Million Mellon Grant, Brown Scholars Will Unearth a Treasure Trove of African Poetry
(Brown University Library)
Working Together to Ensure Access for All: The Dixon Foundation Supports the Libraries’ Adaptive Technology Centre
(University of Waterloo Library)
Higher Ed
Funding the First Year: How 2024 1Ls Paid for Law School
(LSAC: Law School Admission Council)
Also from LSAC: LSAC’s Knowledge Report: The 2024 1L Profile
New Federal Reserve Report Shows Financial Impact of College Education
(APLU: Association to Public and Land-grant Universities)
Op-Ed: What College Graduates Need Most in the Age of AI
(Time)
Research & Analytics
Our Global Community
(COUNTER Metrics)
Scholars & Scholarship
Examining Linguistic Shifts in Academic Writing Before and After the Launch of ChatGPT: A Study on Preprint Papers
(Scientometrics)
Extracting Research Instruments from Educational Literature Using LLMs (preprint)
(arXiv)
Making Reproducibility a Reality by 2035?: Enabling Publisher Collaboration for Enhanced Data Policy Enforcement
(19th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC25) Conference Materials)
Reporting Out on the Finances of the 2025 Library Publishing Forum
(LPC: Library Publishing Coalition)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
