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Tuesday, September 2
Top o’ the Review
ACLS Receives $500,000 from John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
(ACLS: American Council of Learned Societies)
BBC Reveals Web of Spammers Profiting from AI Holocaust Images
(BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation)
How Florida Universities Became World-Class
(Washington Monthly)
Margaret Atwood Releases Satirical Short Story Critiquing Book Bans in Canada
(The Guardian)
NISO’s Draft Recommended Practice for Open Access Business Processes Now Open for Public Comment
(NISO: National Information Standards Organization)
Republicans Are Probing Wikipedia, a Longstanding MAGA Target
(MSNBC)
SUNY Expands Local News Collaborations with Students
(IHE: Inside Higher Ed)
2025 Data Integrity Summit Report
(APDU: Association of Public Data Users)
ARL Member Libraries
American Libraries Recognizes ASU’s Labriola National American Indian Data Center in 2025 Library Design Showcase
(Arizona State University (ASU) Library via ALA: American Library Association)
Approaching the Black Box: How AI Works in Five Definitions
(Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries & University Museums)
Celebrating 60 Years of Preserving Buckeye History
(The Ohio State University Libraries)
CRL Call for Service: Collections and Services Committee (CSC) 2025–2027
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries)
From Printing to Chat: Visualizing Library Usage Trends over Time
(Temple University Libraries)
How an Academic Archive Became a Tech Juggernaut
(University of Michigan Library and Yale University Library via The Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Moving OA Forward Focus Sessions: “Communicating Up” and Aligning Stakeholders Around OA Negotiation Objectives (video & transcript)
(Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries via Open Access 2020, Max Planck Digital Library)
Trevor James Bond Named Dean of WSU Libraries
(Washington State University (WSU) Libraries)
Also from WSU: Rare Mountaineering Books Donated to WSU Libraries by Alums and Climbers
Welcoming Lori Birrell as the New Dean of the USask Library
(University of Saskatchewan (USask) Library)
Scholars & Scholarship
Do Students Rely on AI? Analysis of Student-ChatGPT Conversations from a Field Study (preprint)
(arXiv)
On the Open Road to Universal Indexing: OpenAlex and Open Journal Systems
(QSS: Quantitative Science Studies)
Point of View: How the Global South Is Reshaping Scholarly Communication
(eLife)
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Wednesday, September 3
Top o’ the Review
Don’t Just Ask a Chatbot. Have It Push Useful Info Right When It’s Needed.
(DARPA: US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
Funders and Universities Urged to Join Fight Against Paper Mills
(Research Professional News)
How to Write an AI Ethics Policy for the Workplace
(HR Dive)
New Resources Available from Machine Actionable Plans (MAP) Pilot
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Also from ARL: ARL Public Policy Briefing (August 2025)
NSF Announces Funding to Establish the National AI Research Resource Operations Center
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Ohio State University Bans Most Land Acknowledgments
(IHE: Inside Higher Ed)
The Large Gender Gap in Who Uses AI (paywall)
(WSJ: The Wall Street Journal)
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The Push to Revise American History at the Smithsonian
(The Daily Podcast, The New York Times)
The US Federal Statistical System Under Threat
(Data Rescue Project)
ARL Member Libraries
Ashton Ellett Named Head of UGA’s Russell Library for Political Research & Studies
(University of Georgia (UGA) University Libraries)
“Circulating Now, Full Circle” Published by Virginia Tech Publishing
(US National Library of Medicine and Virginia Tech University Libraries)
Also from Virginia Tech: University Libraries Highlights Inventors’ Rights in Celebration of Constitution Day
Discovering the Right Room and Tech Now: Learning Spaces Manager Portal Launches
(Penn State University Libraries)
Former Undergrad Library Gets Facelift, Accessibility Updates in Transformation to Archive Building
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University Library via The News-Gazette)
Interviews from Unfinished Civil Rights Film Digitized
(WashU Libraries, Washington University in St. Louis)
McGill Lends Medieval Treasures to Pointe-à-Callière’s Chevaliers/Knights Exhibit
(McGill University Libraries)
The HBCU Digital Library Trust Preserves History
(Atlanta University Center Woodruff Library, Cornell University Library, and Harvard Library via Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative)
Higher Ed
Dual Mission Institutions: Bridging Traditional and Workforce Learning for Regional Impact (white paper)
(ACE: American Council on Education)
The State of Postsecondary Education in Canada, 2025
(Higher Education Strategy Associates)
Scholars & Scholarship
Academic Freedom and International Research Collaboration: A Longitudinal Analysis of Global Network Evolution
(QSS: Quantitative Science Studies)
Adoption of Preprinting Across Scientific Disciplines and Geographical Regions (1991–2023)
(MetaROR: MetaResearch Open Review)
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Thursday, September 4
Top o’ the Review
Call for Proposals: 2026 IIIF Online Meeting
(IIIF: International Image Interoperability Framework)
Census Bureau Releases New Educational Attainment Data
(United States Census Bureau)
Libraries, Museums, Cultural Institutions, and Nation’s Largest Cultural Worker Union Urge Court to Block President Trump’s Effort to Dismantle the Nation’s Cultural and Educational Infrastructure
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries et al. via Democracy Forward)
NIH Explores Capping Article-Processing Charges (APCs): Let’s Look at the Evidence
(ScholCommLab)
Simplifying Research Regulations and Policies: Optimizing American Science
(NAP: National Academies Press)
2025 Digital Accessibility Working Group (DAWG) Technology Survey Report
(DLF: Digital Library Federation)
ARL Member Libraries
Archivists Prepare the Nikki Giovanni Collection for Use as Her Last Book Is Published
(Boston University (BU) Libraries)
CU Boulder Librarians Step Up for Student Creators in Award-Winning Publication
(University of Colorado (CU) Boulder University Libraries)
Library Council Writes Its Next Chapter
(University of Virginia (UVA) Library via The Cavalier Daily)
Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons
(University of Michigan (U-M) Press, U-M Library)
UBC Library 2024/25 Senate Report
(The University of British Columbia (UBC) Library)
Also from UBC: UBC Library Welcomes the 2025/2026 Writer-in-Residence
UCLA Librarians Advance Teaching, Research, and Patient Needs of UCLA Health Enterprise
(UCLA Library)
Higher Ed
How Technology Can Transform the Higher Education Accreditation Process and Drive Continuous Improvement at Colleges and Universities
(AEI: American Enterprise Institute)
The New Thing on Campus: Why Universities Are Appointing Their First Chief AI Officers
(Fortune)
Advocacy & Public Policy
How AI Agents Might Benefit, Advance, and Complicate the Realization of Democratic Values
(Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University)
Scholars & Scholarship
Charting the Future of Scholarly Knowledge with AI: A Community Perspective (preprint)
(arXiv)
Also from arXiv: ResearchQA: Evaluating Scholarly Question Answering at Scale Across 75 Fields with Survey-Mined Questions and Rubrics (preprint)
IOI’s “Reasonable Costs” Project: Insights and Wrap-Up
(IOI: Invest in Open Infrastructure)
Smart Investments, Shared Impact: Strengthening the Open Infrastructure Ecosystem
(SCOSS: Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services)
The Battle of the LLMs: A Popular Website Allows Users to Pit AI Models from Google, OpenAI, and More Against Each Other (paywall)
(Business Insider)
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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
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