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Monday, July 7
Top o’ the Review
AI “Scientists” Joined These Research Teams: Here’s What Happened
(Nature)
Big Win: US Education Department Restores Research Data Access Following Lawsuit
(Public Citizen)
British Library CEO: “Every Generation Has a Phase of Panic” (paywall)
(Bloomberg)
Call for Nominations for Election to HathiTrust Board of Governors
(HathiTrust)
Mellon Foundation Announces Appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow
(The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
See also: Former Librarian of Congress, Fired by Trump, Vows to Improve Public Information in New Mellon Role (AP: The Associated Press)
Now Published: Networking Networks—a Festschrift in Honor of Clifford Lynch
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
Also from CNI: Videos from CNI Spring 2025 Now Available
Opinion: The Constitution—Not Trump—Demands Our Allegiance
(Albuquerque Journal)
Rhode Island Gov. McKee Signs Freedom to Read Act into Law
(Rhode Island Current)
See also: North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein Vetoes DEI Bans, Saying They “Whitewash History” and “Ban Books” (The News & Observer)
ARL Member Libraries
Amanda J. Wilson Returns to Emory Roots as Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library Director
(Emory University Libraries)
CRL Announces Nine New Global Collections Committees
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries)
Dedicated to Universal Liberty: Abolitionist Newspapers in Kentucky
(University of Kentucky (UK) Libraries)
Library Technology Immersion Conference (Wednesday–Friday, August 20–22)
(NC State University Libraries)
NYPL Library for the Performing Arts Celebrates 60th Anniversary with Special Tony Honor and Week of Programming at Lincoln Center
(NYPL: New York Public Library)
This LSU Library Lab Preserves History, and the Process Is Painstaking: “If We Didn’t, No One Would”
(LSU Libraires via Reveille)
UVA Event Recreates Printing of the Declaration of Independence
(University of Virginia (UVA) Library via WVIR/29 News)
Scholars & Scholarship
Knowledge Exchange Begins Exploring How Alternative Platforms Can Help Shape the Future of Scholarly Publishing
(KE: Knowledge Exchange)
Researchers Seek to Influence Peer Review with Hidden AI Prompts
(TechCrunch)
17th Berlin Open Access Conference (B17) Conference Outcomes Released
(MPDL: Max Planck Digital Library)
The Principles of Open Science Monitoring Are Now Online
(Open Science Monitoring Initiative)
See also: Open Access in 3D: Update from OASPA’s “Next 50%” project (OASPA: Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association)
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Tuesday, July 8
Top o’ the Review
Agencies Plan to Decommission Hundreds of .gov Websites Following GSA Review
(Federal News Network)
Data Manipulation Within the US Federal Government
(The Lancet)
Journal Plagued with Problematic Papers, Likely from Paper Mills, Pauses Submissions
(Science)
Most Science Is Published from Countries Lacking in Democracy and Freedom of Press (preprint)
(bioRxiv)
Repertoires: How Forest Research Outlives Its Institutions
(ARL Views blog)
Springer Nature Book on Machine Learning Is Full of Made-Up Citations
(Retraction Watch)
US Education Department Dismisses Thousands of Civil Rights Complaints at an ‘Unheard of’ Pace
(Politico)
Will AI Speed Up Literature Reviews or Derail Them Entirely?
(Nature)
ARL Member Libraries
Comparing Conventional and Alternative Mechanisms of Discovering and Accessing the Scientific Literature
(Southern Illinois University Carbondale via PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
ARL member library authors
Digital Edition of The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman Now Available
(Boston University (BU) Libraries)
More Than 90 Authors to Join the 25th Library of Congress National Book Festival
(LC: Library of Congress)
Also from LC: US Copyright Office Announces Webinar on Copyright Essentials for Writers (Wednesday, August 6)
Updates to Offerings in Support of the 2024 NIH Public Access Policy
(NLM: US National Library of Medicine)
See also: NIH Public Access Policy Mandating Zero Embargo Now in Effect (NIH: US National Institutes of Health)
USRN Community Conversation Series: Session 1 (Thursday, July 24)
(Northwestern University Libraries via USRN: US Repository Network)
Higher Ed
Build America: Empowering Military Learners for Future Success: Lilly Endowment Summary Report on the Credit for Prior Learning Policies and Practices Survey (Phase One)
(ACE: American Council on Education)
Moody’s Report: Restrictive Federal Policies on International Students Pose Credit Risk to Higher Ed Sector
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)
Advocacy & Public Policy
CDT Leads Civil Society Letter Opposing NO FAKES Act
(CDT: Center for Democracy & Technology)
Presidents’ Alliance and Innovation Law Lab Launch New Legal Pathways Learning Tool
(Innovation Law Lab and Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
Also from Presidents’ Alliance:
- Toolkit for Colleges and Universities: Trump Administration’s Actions Targeting International Students and Scholars
- Directory of Administrative Actions Targeting International Students and Scholars
Scholars & Scholarship
Implications of Artificial Intelligence–Related Data Center Electricity Use and Emissions (workshop proceedings)
(NASEM: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
Socially Just Research Impact Assessment as a Foundation for the Advancement of Open Access and Open Science: A Case of a Research-Intensive African University
(JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
The Funding Configuration Method: Tracing and Visualizing All Research Grants of Individual Researchers
(QSS: Quantitative Science Studies)
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Wednesday, July 9
Top o’ the Review
ARL Joins Academic Library and Publishing Associations to Affirm Shared Commitment to Scientific Integrity
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries; ACRL: Association of College & Research Libraries; AUPresses: Association of University Presses; STM: International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers; and SSP: Society for Scholarly Publishing)
ChatGPT Is Testing Disruptive Study Together Feature
(BleepingComputer)
CLIR Publishes an Overview of Emulation as a Preservation Method
(CLIR: Council on Library and Information Resources
Conference Proceedings: Edinburgh Open Research Conference 2025 (presentations and video recordings)
(Edinburgh Open Research)
LIBER Launches a Taskforce on Artificial Intelligence
(LIBER: Association of European Research Libraries)
Metascience Can Improve Science—but It Must Be Useful to Society, Too
(Nature)
NIH to Crack Down on Excessive Publisher Fees for Publicly Funded Research
(NIH: US National Institutes of Health)
See also: US NIH to Cap Publisher Fees for Federally Funded Research by 2026 (Reuters via MSN)
Our Changing Information Ecosystem for Science and Why It Matters for Effective Science Communication
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
Also from PNAS: An Agenda for Science Communication Research and Practice
ARL Member Libraries
Learning Through Making: Exploring DIY Bioplastics at the Materials Library
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
May I Have Your Card and Give You Mine? The Pfeiffer Trade Card Collection
(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press)
MSU Libraries Appoints New Associate Deans for Teaching & Learning and Collections & Technical Services Divisions
(Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries)
“Save Our Signs” Wants to Save the Real History of National Parks Before Trump Erases It
(University of Minnesota Libraries via 404 Media)
UMass Amherst Libraries Publish Adapted Open Educational Resource, Adult Psychopathology
(University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst Libraries)
Year Three Update on the Library’s Strategic Plan
(UC Davis Library)
Higher Ed
Project Infuse Launched to Democratize Digital Credentials in Higher Education
(AACRAO: American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers)
Scholars & Scholarship
Fairness Evaluation of Large Language Models in Academic Library Reference Services (preprint)
(arXiv)
How Do Authors Perceive the Way Their Work Is Cited? Findings from a Large-Scale Survey on Quotation Accuracy
(JASIST: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)
Judging Research on Its Own Merits: How MetaROR Supports Better Research Assessment
(DORA: Declaration on Research Assessment)
Research-Integrity Sleuths Say Their Work Is Being “Twisted” to Undermine Science
(Nature)
UKRIO Publishes Revised Code of Practice for Research
(UKRIO: UK Research Integrity Office)
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Thursday, July 10
Top o’ the Review
China Refocuses Its Science and Technology Ecosystem on Innovation and Security
(NSF SECURE Analytics)
See also: New Report Shows China Dominates in AI Research—and Is Western World’s Leading Collaborator on AI (Digital Science)
COAR Launches the International Repository Directory
(COAR: Confederation of Open Access Repositories)
Copim’s Open Book Futures: Progress Update
(Copim)
IATUL Webinar on Mindfulness Practices for Library Leaders (Thursday, August 7)
(IATUL: International Association of University Libraries)
Also from IATUL: IATUL Webinar on Libraries and Play (Wednesday, August 13)
Introducing GAIIN: The Global AI Initiatives Navigator
(OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
NSF Has Canceled More Than 1,500 Grants. Nearly 90 Percent Were Related to DEI.
(Urban Institute)
U-M Researchers Devise Tool for Detecting AI That Scores High on Accuracy, Low on False Accusations
(U-M: University of Michigan)
ARL Member Libraries
How to Become an Integrity Sleuth in the Library
(Iowa State University Library via Katina)
ARL member library authors
Also from Iowa State University Library: Library Updates Create Cost Savings, Expanded Access
LSU Libraries Awarded Louisiana Board of Regents Grant to Digitize Louisiana History
(LSU Libraries)
Sian Brannon Named University Librarian and Vice Provost for University of North Texas Effective July 1
(University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries via ARL)
Sustaining the Archival Resource Key (ARK) Ecosystem
(CDL: California Digital Library, University of California)
THE Podcast: University Libraries—and Librarians—That Are Leading the Change
(University of Pennsylvania Libraries via THE: Times Higher Education)
The Walter “Fats” Pichon Collection Is Open for Research
(Tulane University Libraries)
UCSB Library Receives Rare Iranian Poetry and Photographs
(UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) Library)
Scholars & Scholarship
AI Models Just Don’t Understand What They’re Talking About
(The Register)
Information Needs and Practices Supported by ChatGPT
(arXiv)
SSP 47th Annual Meeting Posters Now Available on ScienceOpen
(SSP: Society for Scholarly Publishing)
The Research Data Management Workbook: Building a Collection of Data Management Exercises to Bridge Data Information Literacy and Data Management Implementation
(Journal of eScience Librarianship)
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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
