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Monday, April 29
Top o’ the Review
AI for Scientific Discovery: Proceedings of a Workshop
(NASEM: US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
Also from NASEM: Playlist of workshop videos
ChatGPT’s Hallucinations Draw EU Privacy Complaint
(Politico)
See also: Statement from organization filing complaint (noyb)
Introducing COUNTER Metrics
(COUNTER Metrics, formerly Project COUNTER)
Report to the President: Supercharging Research: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Meet Global Challenges
(Executive Office of the President, President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, The White House)
Also from The White House: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Key AI Actions 180 Days Following President Biden’s Landmark Executive Order
Seek and You May (Not) Find: A Multi-institutional Analysis of Where Research Data Are Shared
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries via PLOS ONE)
STM Trends 2028 Is Now Live
(STM)
Toxic Dynamics: Disrupting, Dismantling, and Transforming Academic Library Culture
(ACRL: Association of College and Research Libraries)
Upcoming In-Person Event: Authors Alliance 10th Anniversary: Authorship in an Age of Monopoly and Moral Panics (Friday, May 17)
(Authors Alliance)
ARL Member Libraries
Benjamin Alire Sáenz Archive Comes to the Wittliff
(Texas State University Libraries)
Connecting DMSPs to Research Outputs
(UC3: University of California Curation Center)
Cynthia Hudson Vitale Appointed Associate Dean of Technology Strategy and Digital Services
(Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Sheridan Libraries & University Museums)
Duke University Receives New $5 Million Grant for Lilly Library Renovation
(Duke University Libraries)
LSF at 25: Inside the Library Shelving Facility (LSF) That Safeguards Yale’s World-Class Collections
(Yale University Library)
New Open Access Initiatives and Annual Report Highlights
(University of Texas Libraries)
Scholarly Communication at the Library: New Name, Same Great Service
(University of California (UC), Berkeley Library)
Libraries—Other
Draft IFLA Strategy 2024–2025: Open for Comments!
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Higher Ed—Members
Advancing What Works to Intentionally Serve Latino Students: Opportunities for Action – 2024
(Five ARL members via Excelencia in Education)
Advocacy & Public Policy
GPO Director Names New Members to the Depository Library Council
(GPO: US Government Publishing Office)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Video: Grand Seminar: AI for All: Embracing Equity for All
(Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi with Microsoft AI for Good via YouTube)
Scholars & Scholarship
“We Haven’t Yet Had an AI Hiroshima”
(University Affairs)
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Tuesday, April 30
Top o’ the Review
An Analysis of the Effects of Sharing Research Data, Code, and Preprints on Citations (preprint)
(arXiv)
Copim’s Experimental Publishing Group Announces Launch of Three Experimental Book Pilot Projects
(infoDOCKET)
More from Copim: Engaging with New Presses: Growing the Opening the Future Programme and Community
IATUL Annual Conference Call for Submissions Extended Until May 12
(IATUL: International Association of University Libraries)
New UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Data Show Share of Women in STEM Graduates Stagnant for 10 Years
(UNESCO World Education Blog)
Report Uncovers Gender and Racial Inequities in Professional Educational Measurement Field
(The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education)
Resource Sharing Task Force Final Report Now Available
(Partnership for Shared Book Collections)
“Transformative”: More College Programs Are Slowly Coming into Prisons
(Stateline)
University of Utah Associate Librarian Rebekah Cummings Is Utah Democratic Party’s Nominee for Lieutenant Governor
(The Salt Lake Tribune)
US Newspapers Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement over AI Training
(Reuters)
ARL Member Libraries
CU Boulder to Begin Exploring 1,400 Boxes of the Glenn Miller Archive
(University of Colorado (CU) Boulder University Libraries via Daily Camera)
Heather Froehlich Publishes Chapter in Digital Humanities in the Library, Second Edition
(The University of Arizona University Libraries)
Follow-Up from “The Right to Deposit” Webinar: Statement and Early Signatories
(Office of Scholarly Communication, University of California)
MTIX: The Next-Generation Algorithm for Automated Indexing of MEDLINE
(NLM: US National Library of Medicine)
New “Room” Enhances Study and Collaborative Experience
(University of Miami Libraries)
Thunderbird Archives: These Walls Do Talk
(Arizona State University (ASU) Library)
UCLA Film & Television Archive Trailer
(UCLA Film & Television Archive via YouTube)
Higher Ed
Ontario Learning Since the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Updated Look at Student Experiences and Outcomes in 2021–2022
(Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario)
Sustainability in International Higher Education: Strategic Alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
(NAFSA: Association of International Educators)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Regulation Summary: Title IX Final Rule: Outline of Key Provisions
(ACE: American Council on Education)
Scholars & Scholarship
PIDfest Registration Open to All: Tuesday–Thursday, June 11–13, in Prague, Czech Republic
(PIDfest)
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Wednesday, May 1
Top o’ the Review
Are Researchers Citing Their Data? A Case Study from The US Geological Survey
(Data Science Journal)
Also from Data Science Journal: State of the Data: Assessing the FAIRness of US Geological Survey Data
C4DISC Releases Workplace Equity in Scholarly Communications 2023 Executive Summary
(C4DISC: COalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications)
Key Takeaways from SPARC Discussion on Vendor AI Restrictions
(Harvard Library and MIT Libraries via SPARC)
National Trends for Arts and Cultural Organizations 2024
(SMU DataArts)
New AI Guidelines Aim to Help Research Libraries
(ARL via Inside Higher Ed)
Request for Information: Pathways to AI-Enabled Research
(Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Science via Medium)
Teaching as Part of Open Scholarship: Developing A Scientometric Framework for Open Educational Resources
(Scientometrics)
2024 In-Person DLF Forum Program Now Available
(DLF: Digital Library Federation)
Also from DLF: Call for Host of the 2025 DLF Forum
Upcoming Virtual Event (Thursday, May 9): Digital Threats to the Achievement of the SDGs: Libraries as the Target
(United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library)
ARL Member Libraries
Academic and Research Libraries Serving the Needs of Mixed Race Students, Faculty, and Staff
(University of Michigan Library via IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Section Blog)
African Studies Library Hosts Visitors from the US Department of State’s International Visitors Leadership (IVL) Program
(Boston University (BU) Libraries)
Letter from the Dean—Spring 2024
(Iowa State University Library)
New Copyright Resources & Updates to Fair Dealing Guidelines
(University of Saskatchewan University Library)
Wayne State Launches New Digital Collections Focused on Detroit, Michigan, and American History
(Wayne State University Library System)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Multi-sector Actions to Eliminate Systemic Barriers in STEMM
(The White House)
NIST Seeks Comments on Draft AI Guidance Documents, Announces Launch of New Program to Evaluate and Measure Generative AI (GenAI) Technologies
(NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology, US Department of Commerce)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Progress Interrupted: Evaluating a Decade of Demographic Change at Selective and
Open-Access Institutions Prior to the End of Race-Conscious Affirmative Action
(Center on Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University)
Scholars & Scholarship
Plagiarism in Peer-Review Reports Could Be the “Tip of the Iceberg”
(Nature)
To Open or Not to Open: An Exploration of Faculty Decisions to Publish Open-Access Articles
(JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
In Other News
Apple to Unveil AI-Enabled Safari Browser Alongside New Operating Systems
(ai: AppleInsider)
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Thursday, May 2
Top o’ the Review
And Never the Twain Shall Meet? Institutional Open Access Policies (IOAPs) and Review, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT)
(JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
@Risk North 3—2024: Safeguarding the Canadian Digital Record—Save the Dates
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
ChatGPT in Higher Education—A Synthesis of the Literature and a Future Research Agenda
(Education and Information Technologies)
Policy Consultation: Syndicated Usage
(COUNTER Metrics)
Postsecondary Data System Privacy and Funding Focus of New Strong Foundations Report
(SHEEO: State Higher Education Executive Officers Association)
Register Now for Our Sustainability Series—Virtual Workshops: June–December 2024
(ARL)
Sam Altman Says Helpful Agents Are Poised to Become AI’s Killer Function
(MIT Technology Review)
Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI (preprint)
(arXiv)
ARL Member Libraries
A New Chapter for a 16th-Century Codex
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
Center for Digital Scholarship Opens
(The University of Chicago Library)
Joseph Hafner Appointed Dean of York University Libraries
(York University Libraries)
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Launches Recruitment for Next Director, National Library of Medicine
(NLM: US National Library of Medicine)
One in a Million: Helping Researchers Find the Perfect Resource
(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press)
Open Access Workflows for Academic Libraries
(Iowa State University Library via C&RL: College & Research Libraries)
Higher Ed
The NCAA Transfer Portal Chaos Says a Lot about the State of Credit Mobility
(Ithaka S+R)
XR Marks the Spot for Innovation as Investment Across Tertiary Education Increases
(Jisc)
Advocacy & Public Policy
World Intellectual Property Report 2024: Making Innovation Policy Work for Growth and Development
(WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization)
Scholars & Scholarship
Perceptions of Data Literacy and Data Literacy Education
(JOLIS: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science)
Science Has an AI Problem. This Group Says They Can Fix It.
(Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science)
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