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Monday, February 3
Top o’ the Review
ARL Publishes Annual Impact Report 2024
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Also from ARL: Finally! A Licensing Guide to Help Libraries Protect Fair Use Rights in the Digital Age
Building Community Through Data: The Value of a Researcher-Driven Open Science Ecosystem
(Pain Medicine)
CDC Researchers Ordered to Retract Papers Submitted to All Journals
(MedPage Today)
cOAlition S to Sunset the Journal Comparison Service in April 2025
(cOAlition S)
Invest in Open Infrastructure Announces $2.7 Million Commitment from Founding Group for the IOI Fund for Network Adoption
(IOI: Invest in Open Infrastructure)
LOCKSS Co-founders Honored with 2025 Paul Evan Peters Award
(ARL, CNI: Coalition for Networked Information, and EDUCAUSE)
Re:Create Statement on US Copyright Office (USCO) AI Report Part 2
(Re:Create Coalition)
The Misalignment of Incentives in Academic Publishing and Implications for Journal Reform
(PNAS) Also from PNAS: PNAS Provides Free Access to Journal Content and Publishing in Lower-Income Countries
Upcoming Virtual Workshop: Cultural Heritage/Ethics and Intellectual Property (Friday, February 7)
(OCEAN: Open Copyright Education Advisory Network)
ARL Member Libraries
Archivists Work to Identify and Save the Thousands of Datasets Disappearing from Data.gov
(Harvard Library and University of North Texas (UNT) University Libraries via 404 Media)
Award-Winning Children’s Author Sharon G. Flake Donates Her Archive to the University Library System
(University of Pittsburgh Library System)
Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies (IJPS) Celebrates Its 10-Year Anniversary
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
Open but Hidden: Open Access Gaps in the National Science Foundation Public Access Repository
(Emory University Libraries and Georgia Tech Library via Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
Staffing of Library Publishing Programs in the United States and Canada: A Data-Driven Analysis
(The Ohio State University Libraries via Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
Libraries—Other
Degrees of Librarians: The Perennial Question of Credentialing (preprint)
(SSRN)
Higher Ed
An AI-Driven Optimism for Transforming Higher Education (It’s Not What You Think)
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Also from EDUCAUSE Review: EDUCAUSE QuickPoll Results: The Varied and Compounding Effects of Institutional Debt
Virginia Tech Researchers Study Generative AI Usage in Higher Education
(Virginia Tech)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Knowledge Organization and Nation Building
(The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science)
Scholars & Scholarship
AI Biases Towards Rich and Powerful Surnames (preprint)
(arXiv)
Leadership News: Andrew Beckerman Named Chair of the Dryad Board
(Dryad)
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Tuesday, February 4
Top o’ the Review
AI Regulation Around the World
(Agence France-Presse (AFP) via Yahoo News)
Children’s Views on AI Will Form Manifesto for World Leaders
(The Alan Turing Institute)
Exclusive: How the US National Science Foundation (NSF) Is Scouring Research Grants for Violations of Trump’s Orders
(Nature)
See also: NSF Reexamines Existing Awards to Comply with Trump’s Directives (Science)
Heather Staines, Senior Strategy Consultant, Delta Think, Interviews Ivan Oransky, Co-founder, Retraction Watch
(Charleston Conference via YouTube)
How Are Researchers Using AI? Survey Reveals Pros and Cons for Science
(Nature)
Implementing AI to Further Scale and Accelerate WorldCat De-duplication
(OCLC)
Open Data Has Potential to Transform Research Management and Sector Efficiency
(Jisc)
RDA-US and NISO to Collaborate on US National PID Strategy
(Research Data Alliance–United States (RDA-US) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO))
ARL Member Libraries
As the Trump Admin Deletes Online Data, Scientists and Digital Librarians Rush to Save It
(University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries via Salon)
UMD Awarded $3.6 Million Mellon Foundation Grant to Advance Indigenous Archives
(University of Maryland (UMD) and University of Virginia (UVA) Library)
Higher Ed
Annual Grapevine Data Show Initial 4.3% Increase In State Support For Higher Education
(SHEEO: State Higher Education Executive Officers Association)
CoARA Working Group on Reforming Academic Career Assessment (ACA) Releases First Outputs
(CoARA: Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment)
Policies and Practices: How to Improve Data Classification in Higher Education
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Scholars & Scholarship
DCN Releases 2024 Annual Report
(DCN: Data Curation Network)
Linking Citation and Retraction Data Reveals the Demographics of Scientific Retractions Among Highly Cited Authors
(PLOS Biology)
The Origin of Public Concerns over AI Supercharging Misinformation in the 2024 US Presidential Election
(Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review)
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Wednesday, February 5
Top o’ the Review
Building Institutional Capacity for Engaged Research: Proceedings of a Workshop
(NASEM: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
Costs of Federally Sponsored Research (infographic)
(AAMC, AAU, AIRI, APLU, and COGR)
Curating for Data Rescue
(DCN: Data Curation Network)
“In the United States, There Is No King”: American Association of University Professors (AAUP) Sues Trump Over Attacks on DEI
(Higher Ed Dive)
See also:
- NADOHE Joins as Lead Plaintiff in a Federal Lawsuit Against the Trump Administration (NADOHE: National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education)
- AAUP Joins Lawsuit to Block Trump’s Unlawful and Unconstitutional DEI Orders (AAUP)
Invitation to C4DISC Rapid Response Sprint, Thursday, February 13
(C4DISC: Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications)
Minding Mindful Machines: AI Agents and Data Protection Considerations
(FPF: Future of Privacy Forum)
Recommendations for Open Access Book Policies
(OPERAS)
Researchers Link DeepSeek’s Blockbuster Chatbot to Chinese Telecom Banned from Doing Business in US
(AP: Associated Press)
Science, Ethics, and Power: The Need for a Global Commons Approach to Emerging Technologies
(ISC: International Science Council)
US Department of Education Releases Enforcement Guidance for Title IX; CUPA-HR to Host Webinar on Title IX and Title IV (Tuesday, February 25)
(CUPA-HR: College and University Professional Association for Human Resources)
ARL Member Libraries
A New Era in Documenting Urban Excellence
(University at Buffalo University Libraries)
Librarians at the Center of Peer Review Training: Increasing Collaboration Among Scholarly Communication Stakeholders
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) University Library via Learned Publishing)
Recharging After COVID: Creating a Virtual Reality Space to Grow Outreach and Foot Traffic at an HBCU Consortium Library
(Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library via College & Research Libraries News)
Higher Ed
Higher Education Students’ Perceptions of ChatGPT: A Global Study of Early Reactions
(PLOS One)
International Student Graduates’ Labor Market Early Outcomes: Results from the National Graduates Survey
(Statistics Canada)
Scholars & Scholarship
Fully OA Journals Output Shrank in 2023, but Hybrid OA Made Up the Lost Ground
(OASPA: Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association)
The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS): Bringing Open-Source Software Practices to the Scholarly Publishing Community for Authors, Reviewers, Editors, and Publishers
(JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
The Present and Future of Peer Review: Ideas, interventions, and Evidence
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
