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Tuesday, February 18
Top o’ the Review
AAAS Leaders: We Must Stay Focused Amid Turmoil
(AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Howard University Makes History as First HBCU to Achieve Top Research Status
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)
On the New US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Indirect Cost Guidance
(Authors Alliance)
Preparing National Research Ecosystems for AI, 2nd Edition
(ISC: International Science Council)
SAA Response to AOTUS Removal Urges Advocacy
(SAA: Society of American Archivists)
Springer Nature Retracted 2,923 Papers Last Year
(Retraction Watch)
Unveiling the Final Report Findings from IOI’s Study on the State of Open Research Software Infrastructure
(IOI: Invest in Open Infrastructure)
ARL Member Libraries
BYU Library’s Book Conservation Lab Repairs, Renews Old Books
(Brigham Young University (BYU) Library via The Daily Universe)
Chemistry Lasers Identify Pigments in Medieval Manuscripts
(Dartmouth Libraries, Dartmouth College)
FSU Libraries Announces 2024 Florida Book Awards Winners
(Florida State University (FSU) Libraries)
Latino USA Radio Program Episodes Published
(University of Texas Libraries)
Mizzou Celebrates Reopening of the J. Otto Lottes Health Sciences Library
(University of Missouri Libraries)
New Hosting Service Underscores USask Library’s Commitment to Open Scholarship
(University of Saskatchewan (USask) Library)
The Colors Are Brilliant, and the Poisons Are Real
(University of Virginia (UVA) Library)
The New York Public Library to Open the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Archive
(NYPL: New York Public Library)
UCLA Library Preserves the Collection of the Advocate Journalist and Author Mark Thompson
(UCLA Library)
UMD Libraries to Support Project STAND, Shift Collective Inc. Partnership in Grant from Mellon Foundation
(University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
Gender Biases in Large Language Models (LLMs): Higher Intelligence in LLM Does Not Necessarily Solve Gender Bias and Stereotyping (preprint, version 2)
(arXiv)
See also: Large Language Models That Replace Human Participants Can Harmfully Misportray and Flatten Identity Groups (Nature Machine Intelligence)
Meeting Proceedings: “Libraries Bridging Boundaries: Challenges & Strategies for Global Openness. IFLA Division D Midterm Meeting: Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye, June 5–7, 2024”
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions via infoDOCKET)
Publishing in the Age of Open Science: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief
(NASEM: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
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Wednesday, February 19
Top o’ the Review
Exclusive: These Universities Have the Most Retracted Scientific Articles
(Nature)
Also from Nature: Why Retractions Data Could Be a Powerful Tool for Cleaning Up Science
Fall 2024 National College Health Assessment Reports Are Here
(ACHA: American College Health Association)
Reflections on Transformative Agreements: From Stagnant Transitions to Article Quotas
(Knowledge Exchange)
Science Is Under Siege: The Open Science Community Must Act and Lead by Example
(Upstream, FORCE11)
See also: Mass Firings Decimate US Science Agencies (Science)
Trump Names Jim Byron to Senior Archivist Role
(The Hill)
US Research Data Summit: Strengthening Cooperation Across Organizations and Sectors: Proceedings of a Workshop
(NASEM: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
ARL Member Libraries
A Brief History of PUL’s African American Studies Reading Room
(PUL: Princeton University Library)
“Crafting Lessons Alongside Experts”: The Map Library Finishes Its Second Annual Teacher Fellowship
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
CRL Values Statement
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries)
Enhanced Special Collections Guides with New Discovery Features Launch on March 4
(UNC University Libraries, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Indigenous Studies Collection Finds a New Home in Charles B. Sears Law Library
(University at Buffalo Libraries)
McGill University Libraries 2023–2024 Annual Report Now Available
(McGill University Libraries)
New Reflection Room in the Main Library
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) University Library)
Libraries—Other
Now Available: IFLA Academic and Research Libraries (ARL) Section Newsletter Issue #13
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Identifying the Economic Implications of Artificial Intelligence for Copyright Policy
(US Copyright Office)
US Department of Education: Background and Statutorily Established Officers, Positions, and Offices
(CRS: US Congressional Research Service)
Scholars & Scholarship
DeepGreen—A Data Hub for the Distribution of Scholarly Articles from Publishers to Open Access Repositories in Germany
(Learned Publishing)
New Format Data Curation Primers in 2024
(DCN: Data Curation Network)
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Thursday, February 20
Top o’ the Review
A Renewed Call for Preservation of At-Risk Government Data
(University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research (ISR) and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR))
Cutting AI Down to Size
(Science)
Driving Innovation—Canada’s Leading Research Universities and the Path to Home-Grown Prosperity
(U15 Canada)
Filling the Basket with Knowledge: The Evolution of Open Access in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand
(JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
FPF Releases Infographic Highlighting the Spectrum of AI in Education
(FPF: Future of Privacy Forum)
Google Develops AI Co-scientist to Aid Researchers
(Reuters)
See also: Details and visuals (Google Research)
OpenAI Tops 400 Million Users Despite DeepSeek’s Emergence
(CNBC)
Science Diplomacy in an Era of Disruption
(AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science and The Royal Society)
Ushering in a New Era of AI-Driven Data Insights at UC San Diego
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Video: Why Large Language Models are Mysterious—Even to Their Creators
(Aeon)
ARL Member Libraries
Blackstone LaunchPad Announces 2025 Afropreneurship Business Competition Winners
(Syracuse University Libraries)
Got Kids? Shields Library Now Has Activity Kits Available to Keep Them Busy While You Work
(UC Davis Library)
Legacy in Preservation: Notre Dame Safeguards Irreplaceable Manuscripts
(University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Libraries)
Musical Maps of the World in the 21st Century: Leveraging Librarian Expertise in the Development of Visualization Tools for Music Research and Pedagogy
(University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Libraries and Vanderbilt University Libraries via The Journal of Creative Library Practice)
The Storm Is Here: Public Libraries’ Role in Disaster Preparedness and Community Recovery
(UCLA Library Electronic Green Journal)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Copyrightability and Artificial Intelligence: Part 2 of Report from the US Copyright Office
(Authors Alliance)
EFF and Repro Uncensored Launch #StopCensoringAbortion Campaign
(EFF: Electronic Frontier Foundation and Repro Uncensored)
Scholars & Scholarship
An Endangered Species: How LLMs Threaten Wikipedia’s Sustainability
(AI & Society)
DataCite Annual Member Survey 2024
(DataCite)
Official Publication of Data Documentation Initiative Cross-Domain Integration (DDI-CDI) Version 1.0
(CODATA: Committee on Data, International Science Council)
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