Last Updated on March 26, 2026, 3:04 pm ET
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Monday, March 23
Top o’ the Day
Academic Freedom Index: Update 2026
(FAU: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and V-Dem Institute)
See also: US Leads Worldwide Decline in Academic Freedom, Report Says (University World News)
Announcing Version 2.1 of the NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation
(NDSA: National Digital Stewardship Alliance)
arXiv, the Pioneering Preprint Server, Declares Independence from Cornell
(Science)
From Prompt to Practice: A Framework for Transparent Gen AI Use in Higher Education
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Global Metadata Milestone: Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) Recognized in the ISO Framework, Strengthening ICPSR’s Metadata Foundation
(ICPSR, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan)
IHEP Launches National Project to Reimagine Federal Postsecondary Data Infrastructure
(IHEP: Institute for Higher Education Policy)
MediManus: Preserving Ancient Medical Heritage Through Digital Collaboration
(CHS: The Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University)
Neuroscientists Challenge NIH’s Proposed Human-Data Access Policy
(The Transmitter)
See also: COGR Submits Comments on NIH Draft Controlled-Access Data Policy and Proposed Revisions to the Genomic Data Sharing Policy (COGR)
When We Thrive Together
(Trevor A. Dawes)
You’re Invited to Participate in the Sixth Annual Civic Season 2026, June 19–July 4!
(Civic Season, Made By Us)
ARL Member Libraries
A Conversation with Chief Librarian Larry Alford (podcast)
(University of Toronto Libraries via Library Land Loves podcast, Ontario Library Association)
A Conversation with EDI Scholar-in-Residence 2025/2026 Dana-Lyn Mackenzie
(UBC Library, UBC: The University of British Columbia)
AI Project Puts Human Expertise at the Center of Digital Curation
(University Libraries at Virginia Tech)
See also: Virginia Tech Libraries Embrace AI (The Collegiate Times)
ARL Unbound Column Launches with Interview of Alexia Hudson-Ward
(Georgetown University Library via ARL: Association of Research Libraries and LJ: Library Journal)
Ensuring Public Access with Dartmouth Digital Commons
(Dartmouth Libraries, Dartmouth College)
Also from Dartmouth: Collective Past as a Community-Building Initiative (Journal of Asian American Studies)
GW Announces Leadership Transition in Information Technology
(GW Libraries & Academic Innovation, GW: The George Washington University)
HathiTrust Data Breach
(University of Michigan Library)
See also: Unauthorized Distribution of HathiTrust Data (HathiTrust)
JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 14, no. 1 (2026)
ARL member library authors
- An Exploration of Open Access Viewpoints and Self-Archiving Decisions of Yale School of Public Health Primary Faculty (Yale University Library)
- From Course Packs to AI: Evolving Author and Publisher Rights in Journal Publishing Agreements (McGill University Libraries)
- How Graduate Students Engage with Open Access: Challenges and Interventions (UC Santa Cruz Library)
Libraries Awarded Grant to Transform Archive of Environmental Impact Statements into Data Using AI
(Northwestern University Libraries)
Library Joins AI4LAM, a Collaboration to Advance AI Best Practices in Cultural Heritage Institutions
(Yale University Library)
McGill’s Osler Library Shares the Fine Art of Early Medical Books
(McGill University Libraries via The Montreal Gazette)
See also: Why Is My McGill Librarian Contributing to Wikipedia? (McGill)
Revival: A Novel, by Robert Scott Ross
(Ohio University Libraries via Redhawk Publications)
See also: Alden Library Renovation Highlights New Spaces, Rooftop Lounge (The Post)
The Library’s Collection of French Manuscripts Now Available Online
(uOttawa Library, uOttawa: University of Ottawa)
UConn Library Conservation Lab Earns Gold Certification for Sustainability
(UConn Library, UConn: University of Connecticut)
UT Music Graduate Student Partners with UT Libraries to Modernize Saxophone Repair
(UT Libraries, UT: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Tuesday, March 24
Top o’ the Day
Announcing the Library Partnership Development Framework
(Ithaka S+R)
From the Community Survey to Action: The OpenCitations Roadmap for 2026
(OpenCitations)
How the 2025 NIH Grant Terminations Varied by Researchers’ Demographic Groups
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
See also: NIH Grant Terminations Affected Women Scientists More Than Men, Study Finds (STAT)
ORFG 2026 Annual Meeting Recap
(ORFG: Open Research Funders Group)
On Metadata Enrichment
(Crossref)
See also: Evaluating Multilingual Metadata Quality in Crossref (JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
ORION Dashboard: Bringing Open Research Data Within Reach
(Leiden Madtrics)
Shared Principles for Open Access Monograph Models
(RLUK: Research Libraries UK)
Understanding Young News Audiences at a Time of Rapid Change
(Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford)
Visualize and Monitor DataCite Metadata Quality with New Dashboards
(DataCite)
ARL Member Libraries
Boston Public Library and Boston.com Unveil “Tell-a-Booth” at BPL Central Library
(BPL: Boston Public Library)
Celebrating Women’s History Month 2026 in ARL Libraries
(15 ARL member libraries via ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
From Card Catalogs to Semantic Search: Building a Human-Centered Discovery Platform Powered by AI Technologies
(Harvard University Library and UC Berkeley Library via ITAL: Information Technology and Libraries)
ARL member library authors
KU Reads Teach-In Explores Use of “Orbital” in the Classroom
(KU Libraries, KU: The University of Kansas)
New Report Recommends Path Forward for Duke and Artificial Intelligence
(Duke University Libraries via Duke University Office of the Provost)
Preserving Documents of Freedom
(WashU Libraries, WashU: Washington University in St. Louis)
Sipping History: Rare Book Gifted to the Library
(UC Davis Library)
12 Years of Special Collections Archival Processing Tracking
(Temple University Libraries)
Upcoming In-Person Event: Beinecke Symposium: Democracy, Civic Education, and the American Archive (Wednesday–Thursday, April 8–9)
(Yale University Library and University of Virginia Library)
Vanderbilt Libraries Awarded Cultural Heritage Grants for Tennessee America 250 Initiatives
(Vanderbilt University Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
Evaluating Open Access Advantages for Citations and Altmetrics (2011–21)
(QSS: Quantitative Science Studies)
Publishing Fine-Grained Standardized Metadata—Lessons Learned from Three Research Data Centers
(Data Science Journal)
Wednesday, March 25
Top o’ the Day
Advancing Long-Form Open Access Practice
(Information Power)
ARL Statement on Reintroduction of Pro Codes Act
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
See also:
- Public Knowledge Continues to Oppose Bill Paywalling the Law (Public Knowledge)
- Re:Create Statement on the Senate Re-Introduction of the Pro Codes Act (Re:Create)
CARL Fund for Advancing Open Access Book Publishing
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Graduate Grade Inflation at a US Research-Intensive University: A 22-Year Longitudinal Analysis
(PLOS One)
NSF Initiative Aims to Make Every American Worker, Business, and Community AI-Ready
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Over a Decade of Commitment, Measured in Terabytes
(AP Trust: Academic Preservation Trust)
Presidents’ Alliance and Partners Convene Bipartisan Summit on Immigration Reform
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
Sustaining Open Source Software in the Research Enterprise: Findings from a One-Day Workshop
(Ithaka S+R)
Switzerland Renews Its Commitment to Open Science with Round 4 Pledges
(SCOSS: Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services)
University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication, 2024–25 Annual Report
(University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication, University of California)
US Jury Finds Meta and Google Liable in Social Media Addiction Trial
(Reuters)
ARL Member Libraries
College & Research Libraries (March 2026)
ARL member library authors
- Learning from Experience: Librarians as Research Partners (The Ohio State University Libraries)
- Preparing for the ADA Title II Clarification: A Call to Cultural Change in Virtual Reference (Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies)
- Python for All: A Library Workshop for Bridging AI Literacy and Coding Skills (Cornell University Library)
How AI-Generated Images Are Fueling Misinformation
(Rutgers University Libraries)
Libraries Annual Report 2025
(University of Waterloo Libraries)
Neiman Marcus Fortnight, Luxury Branding, and Primary Source Analysis
(UNT University Libraries, UNT: University of North Texas)
New Studio and Collections Invigorate UVA Library
(University of Virginia (UVA) Library)
Penn Libraries: America 250
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
The MSPCA-Angell Archives Comes to the Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center
(NC State University Libraries)
Unlocking the Path Toward Innovation in Research Libraries: Highlights of ARL President’s Institute 2026
(McMaster University Libraries, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University Library, and University of Southern California (USC) Libraries via ARL)
What We Learned from Undergraduates’ Library Use Patterns, 2017–24 (abstract and highlights only)
(University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hamilton Library via The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
ARL member library authors
Thursday, March 26
Top o’ the Day
ALA and ARL Oppose Repealing Section 230 of Communications Decency Act
(ALA: American Library Association and ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
ARL and CNI Release Report on Strategic Implications of AI Futures for Research Libraries
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries and CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
Artificial Intelligence Tools: A Third Party by Any Other Name?
(Reuters)
See also: United States v. Heppner (Harvard Law Review)
CERN to Host Europe’s Flagship Open Access Publishing Platform, Open Research Europe
(CERN)
See also: A New Shield for Diamond Open Access in Europe: Launching the AEGIS-OA Project (EDCH: European Diamond Capacity Hub)
Help Protect At-Risk Humanitarian Archives
(Data Rescue Project)
How to Build an AI Scientist: First Peer-Reviewed Paper Spills the Secrets
(Nature)
Inside the Archives: Digitizing 6 Million Day School Records
(CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network)
US Universities Under Siege: Foreign Espionage, Stolen Innovation, and the National Security Threat (hearing video and materials)
(US House Committee on Education and Workforce via Congress.gov)
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
(404 Media)
ARL Member Libraries
KU Libraries, Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (CURF) Open Student Research Gallery at Anschutz Library
(KU Libraries, KU: University of Kansas)
New Digital Initiatives & Open Scholarship Newsletter
(Queen’s University Library)
Penn Libraries Joins Google Books Library Project
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
UC Libraries Welcomes Jordan Finkin, Head of the John Miller Burnam Classics Library
(University of Cincinnati (UC) Libraries)
Higher Ed
Educational Attainment in Canada Has Continued to Rise over the Past Decade, 2025
(Statistics Canada)
Gen AI and Creeping Cognitive Displacement Syndrome
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Supporting Blind, Visually Impaired, and Print Disabled Students (abstract, snippets)
(The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
See also: How Academic Librarians Assist Students with Visual Impairments in Accessing Academic Reading Materials (abstract, snippets)
Scholars & Scholarship
A Fresh Look at the Publication and Citation Gap Between Men and Women: Insights from Economics and Political Science
(Humanities & Social Sciences Communications)
How Are AI Agents Used? Evidence from 177,000 MCP Tools (preprint)
(arXiv)
Research Categorization and the Value of Structured Data
(ISI: Institute for Scientific Information, Clarivate)
Typology of Data Uses: A Tool to Capture Consistent, Actionable Insights into the Uses of Data
(Upstream, FORCE11)
What Our Newest Researcher Survey Reveals About a Global System Under Strain
(Delta Think)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
http://infoDOCKET.com
@infodocket
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