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Monday, April 21
Top o’ the Review
A Treasure Trove of Education Reports and Studies Is Under Threat: ERIC Is Slated to End This Week
(The Hechinger Report)
Content Filtering and Why It Matters
(Re:Create Coalition)
Dublin-Based OCLC Sues Baker & Taylor for Allegedly Using Its Data to Create Competing Product
(WOSU)
EDUCAUSE QuickPoll Results: Technology Budgets and Staffing
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Medical Journals Get Letters From DOJ
(MedPage Today)
The Digital Divide: Student Generative AI Access
(Inside Higher Ed)
Updates on NSF Priorities
(US National Science Foundation)
See also: NSF Begins Terminating Select Grant Funding (Nextgov)
US Climate Data Websites Go Dark
(Science)
What Is the Big Ten Mutual Defense Compact? Michigan State University Faculty Senate Urges University to Join
(Lansing State Journal)
See also: Mutual Defense Compact: An Innovative Way Faculty Want to Fight Trump (University Business)
ARL Member Libraries
Introducing Article Galaxy Scholar: On-Demand Access to Scholarly Articles
(Stony Brook University Libraries)
New Textbook Published from OER Grant Program: Semantic Web Development
(University of Kentucky (UK) Libraries)
Texas Historical Commission Grants the 2025 Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation to The Portal to Texas History
(University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries)
The Greatest Show On Earth Comes to the Library of Congress
(Library of Congress)
The Student Workforce Quietly Powering UW Libraries and UW Press
(University of Washington (UW) Libraries via The Daily)
Try Out Student Furniture Design at the Hunt Library on April 24
(NC State University Libraries)
UMD Libraries Launches New Research Data Resource in Partnership with the Division of Information Technology and the Division of Research
(University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
A Lightweight File System–Based Approach to Getting Data Ready for Data Management Solutions
(Data Science Journal)
Heather Staines Interviews Kamran Naim, Head of Open Science, CERN
(Charleston Conference YouTube channel)
Open Science Interventions to Improve Reproducibility and Replicability of Research: A Scoping Review
(Royal Society Open Science)
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Tuesday, April 22
Top o’ the Review
A Call for Constructive Engagement
(AAC&U: American Association of Colleges and Universities)
American Historical Association Condemns Targeting of Foreign Scholars
(American Historical Association and others)
CNI Spring 2025 Plenary Session Videos
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
Exclusive: Anthropic Warns Fully AI Employees Are a Year Away
(Axios)
New Report on the National Security Risks from Weakened AI Safety Frameworks
(AI Now Institute)
NSF Cancels Over 400 Grants Covering Disinformation, Deepfakes, and STEM Education
(Nextgov/FCW)
See also:
- America’s Fact Fight Fades (Axios)
- OpenAI’s Most Capable Models Hallucinate More Than Earlier Ones (ZDNET)
“Signal-Gate” Shines Spotlight on Rubio Role as Acting Archivist
(Federal News Network)
Understanding ORCID Adoption Among Academic Researchers
(Scientometrics)
ARL Member Libraries
Amanda Etches Named University Librarian at University of Guelph
(University of Guelph Library via ARL)
Pollinator Projects from the Emory Libraries Environmental Sustainability Committee
(Emory University Libraries)
The Structure and Experience of Interim Roles in Academic Health Sciences Libraries
(VCU Libraries via JMLA: Journal of Medical Library Association)
ARL member library authors
Higher Ed
CGS Is Pleased to Announce Relaunch of GradSense Toolkit
(CGS: Council of Graduate Schools)
College Enrollment and Work Activity of Recent High School and College Graduates: Summary
(US Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Ensuring College Access and Success for Black Students in Higher Education
(The Campaign for College Opportunity)
Upcoming Briefing: Visa Revocations and SEVIS Terminations: Ongoing Administrative Actions, Litigations, and Impact on International and Other Noncitizen Students, Faculty, and Staff (Tuesday, April 29)
(The Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
Scholars & Scholarship
The Emerging Generative Artificial Intelligence Divide in the United States (preprint)
(arXiv)
The Impact of Inflation on Article-Processing Charge (APC) Costs
(Delta Think)
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Wednesday, April 23
Top o’ the Review
American Society for Testing & Materials (ASTM) v. UpCodes Amicus Brief
(LCA: Library Copyright Alliance)
Artificial Intelligence: Generative AI’s Environmental and Human Effects
(GAO: US Government Accountability Office)
Building a Sustainable Future for Open Science
(LIBER: Association of European Research Libraries and SCOSS: Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services via YouTube)
Florida Faculty Call for Campus Police to Cut ICE ties
(Tampa Bay Times)
Note: An archived version of the article is available here.
How Gen Z Became the Most Gullible Generation
(Politico)
How the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Got into the National Science Foundation
(FedScoop)
IFLA Academic and Research Libraries “Hot Topics” Call for Papers @ IFLA WLIC 2025 in Astana, Kazakhstan
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
In Defense of Our Institutional Independence
(The Michigan Daily)
The Government Wants You to Get Paid Not to Use Google Search
(The Washington Post via Yahoo! News)
Why Harvard and Other Colleges Are Fighting for “Essential Freedom”
(The Christian Science Monitor)
ARL Member Libraries
Getting Our Kids Off Devices and Into Public Spaces
(Boston Public Library and New York Public Library via Reimagining the Civic Commons)
Lorne Michaels Lands at the Ransom Center
(University of Texas Libraries)
$1 Million Libraries Estate Commitment Gives Comprehensive Support to the Animal Rights and Welfare Archive
(NC State University Libraries)
Read UC Davis Library Ebooks on Mobile Devices with The Palace Project App
(UC Davis Library)
Remembering Bill Mischo
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) University Library)
Towards Sustainable and Coordinated Methods for Estimating Open Access Costs at Canadian Higher Education Institutions
(University of British Columbia Library and University of Ottawa Library via The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science)
ARL member library authors
Work on AI Underway at the Libraries
(Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries and University Museums)
Higher Ed
ACHA Releases Updated Guidelines on Immunizations and TB Assessment and Management
(ACHA: American College Health Association)
EDUCAUSE Recommends Changes to Proposed Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Rules
(EDUCAUSE Review)
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Thursday, April 24
Top o’ the Review
Accessing Archived Material from ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) via Internet Archive
(infoDOCKET)
ARL Monitor Spring 2025 Now Online
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Bot Farms Invade Social Media to Hijack Popular Sentiment
(Fast Company)
Free Expression Seen as Important Globally, but Not Everyone Thinks Their Country Has Press, Speech, and Internet Freedoms
(Pew Research Center)
Information: A Brief Schematic History
(LorcanDempsey.net)
New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Gets Letter from US Department of Justice (DOJ) re Alleged Bias
(MedPage Today)
Number of Jailed Writers Increases Worldwide
(PEN America)
Science Sleuths Flag Hundreds of Papers That Use AI Without Disclosing It
(Nature)
See also: Education: COPE Goal (COPE: Committee on Publication Ethics)
Video: Harvard’s President Says the School Will “Not Compromise” on Its Rights with the Trump Admin
(NBC News)
See also:
- Trump: Harvard a “Threat to Democracy” (The Hill)
- Executive Order on Accreditation Opens the Door for Rampant Corruption and Political Interference (AAUP: American Association of University Professors)
ARL Member Libraries
Announcing the Winners of the University Libraries’ 2025 Bookmark Design Contest
(UNC University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Archival Imprints: Projecting Our Past, Illuminating the Future
(University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries)
CDL Public Statement on Signing the Barcelona Declaration
(CDL: California Digital Library, University of California)
See also: Advancing Open Research Information at CDL (Office of Scholarly Communication, University of California)
Number of Users of Yale Library Digital Collections Steadily Climbs
(Yale University Library)
Reflecciones: Chicana/o/x Views on 1970s Television, Now Online
(UCLA Library)
The Maker Studio Is Now Open at the Hunt Library
(NC State University Libraries)
Upcoming Symposium: Foundations and Futures of Digital Scholarship (Thursday & Friday, May 1 & 2)
(Brown University Library)
Higher Ed
Carnegie Classifications Redesign Better Reflects Higher Education Landscape and Recognizes Student Success
(ACE: American Council on Education and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching)
Scholars & Scholarship
Publishing Grapples with Where to Draw the Line on AI
(Financial Times)
Note: Archived version available here.
Suspiciously Reliable: A Case Study of Students’ Perceptions of Open Access Searching
(JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
Webinar Recording: The RDA Knowledge Base Beta Launch
(RDA: Research Data Alliance)
Also from RDA: The Power of Data for Emerging Technologies—Lessons from the 24th RDA Plenary
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