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Tuesday, January 21
Top o’ the Review
Accessibility, Archiving, and Open Metadata—a Copim Publishers’ Workshop
(Copim)
AI Hallucinations Can’t Be Stopped—but These Techniques Can Limit Their Damage
(Nature)
APLU Names Waded Cruzado as Its Next President
(APLU: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities)
See also: AAUP Names Mia McIver Executive Director (AAUP: American Association of University Professors)
Introducing Ai2 ScholarQA
(Ai2: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Knight Institute Symposium on AI and Democratic Freedoms to Feature Leading Scholars and Technologists
(Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University)
Learning to Lead: New Report Explores Library Leadership Programming
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Major Authors Hope New AI Licensing Site Will Help Them Keep Control of Their Books
(NPR)
2025 Edelman Trust Barometer: Trust and the Crisis of Grievance
(Edelman)
See also:
- Leveraging Trust to Advance Science, Engineering, and Medicine in the Black Community: Proceedings of a Workshop (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
- Trust in Scientists and Their Role in Society Across 68 Countries (Nature)
Webinar Video: Pricing Framework to Foster Global Equity in Scholarly Publishing
(cOAlition S)
ARL Member Libraries
Breaking Down Barriers to Knowledge: Western Libraries Waives Fees for Community Members
(Western Libraries, Western University)
Curtis Brundy Named Dean of University Libraries
(University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst Libraries)
EMMA Enhances Sharing of Accessible Educational Materials for Students with Disabilities in the US and Canada
(University of Virginia (UVA) Library and ARL via IFLA Library Map of the World)
Library, Museums and Press Launches New Digital Collections Portal
(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press)
New Website for the USask Library Research Collective
(University of Saskatchewan (USask) University Library)
Pee-pee-fox, a New Resource from Emory Digital Collections
(Emory Libraries, Emory University)
Rare Transcript, Photos of MLK Jr. Union Speech Discovered
(Cornell University Library)
The Mad Dash to Protect Environmental Data from Donald Trump
(University of North Texas (UNT) University Libraries via The Verge)
UBC Library Receives Peter Wall Institute Archives
(The University of British Columbia (UBC) Library)
Libraries—Other
Do Academic Libraries Contribute to Students’ and Communities’ Wellbeing? A Scoping Review
(Healthcare)
Higher Ed
Graduate Enrollment and Postdoctoral Appointments in Science, Engineering, and Health Rise, Driven Largely by Increases in the Number of Women and Temporary Visa Holders
(NCSES: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF: US National Science Foundation)
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Wednesday, January 22
Top o’ the Review
AI Will Now Read Your Medical School Application
(AAMC: Association of American Medical Colleges)
See also: UNC Uses AI in Admissions Review Process, Documents Show How (The Daily Tar Heel)
CC Launches Its 2025–2028 Strategic Plan
(CC: Creative Commons)
Collaboration Tools Accessibility User Requirements—Note Published
(W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI))
DeepMind Boss: AI Could Speed Up Research Tasks 100-Fold
(Research Professional News)
How Can Libraries Become Ready for AI
(LIBER: Association of European Research Libraries)
More Than 40% of Postdocs Leave Academia, Study Reveals
(Nature)
NEH Announces New Funding Opportunity to Support Research on the State and Impact of the Humanities
(NEH: US National Endowment for the Humanities)
New Five-Year Strategic Plan
(CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network)
Nominations Being Accepted for the 2025 Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Library Publishing
(LPC: Library Publishing Coalition)
Request for Public Comment on Proposed POSI 2.0 Revisions
(POSI: Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure)
ARL Member Libraries
Alexa Pearce Named Gershwind & Bennett Family Associate Vice Provost for Collections and Scholarly Communications
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on Hiring and Onboarding Practices in Academic Libraries: A Survey of Hiring Managers
(Brown University Library, University of Connecticut Library, and Johns Hopkins University Libraries via The Journal of Academic Librarianship)
Hollings Library Exhibit: The Great Gatsby at 100
(University of South Carolina University Libraries)
UT Libraries Receives LEAD Award
(The University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
DCN Joins World Data System
(DCN: Data Curation Network)
ORCID and Humanities: Celebrating the New Year with New Work Types
(ORCID)
Scholarly Podcasting for Research Dissemination: A Scoping Review
(Sage Open)
The Emergence of Preprints: Comparing Publishing Behavior in the Global South and the Global North
(Online Information Review)
Today’s AI Models Have a Poor Grasp of World History
(Computerworld)
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Thursday, January 23
Top o’ the Review
Announcing a New Report on Open Educational Resources
(Ithaka S+R)
Current Term Enrollment Estimates: Fall 2024: Expanded Edition
(National Student Clearinghouse Research Center)
Funding Announcement: Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable Open Science (FAIROS), NSF 25-533
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
OpenAI Launches Operator—an Agent That Can Use a Computer for You
(MIT Technology Review)
Pioneering CERN Scheme Will Pay Publishers More if They Hit Open-Science Targets
(Nature)
Postdoc Publications and Citations Link to Academic Retention and Faculty Success
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
SpeechMatters Podcast Episode 1 of Season 4: “New Year, New President: Higher Ed in the Age of Trump”
(University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement)
Trends in Assessment in Higher Education: Considerations for Policy and Practice
(Jisc)
Trump Hits NIH with “Devastating” Freezes on Meetings, Travel, Communications, and Hiring
(Science)
WIPO Good Practice Toolkit for Collective Management Organizations: A Bridge Between Rightsholders and Users (new version)
(WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization)
ARL Member Libraries
Announcing the Retirement of Harriette Hemmasi, Dean of the Library
(Georgetown University Library)
Architecture Library Named for Texas’s First Black Architect
(University of Texas Libraries)
BYU Library Family History Center Connects Missionaries, Students with Spiritual Purpose
(Brigham Young University (BYU) Library via The Daily Universe)
Donor Support Accelerates Growth and Digitization of Library Archives and Special Collections
(UC Davis Library)
Libraries Receives 2025 Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) Award
(Syracuse University Libraries)
“Punished for Dreaming” Event Unites Black Wall Street with OSU
(Oklahoma State University (OSU) Libraries)
The Power to Name: How Emory Is Building a More Inclusive Library Catalog
(Emory Libraries, Emory University)
USC Libraries Name Finalists for 37th Annual Scripter Awards
(University of Southern California (USC) Libraries)
Higher Ed
Carnegie Foundation and ACE Launch Pilot Program for Sustainability Elective Classification
(Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and ACE: American Council on Education)
Report on Native Higher Education Success Strategies
(IHEP: Institute for Higher Education Policy)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
