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Monday, September 23
Top o’ the Review
Association of Research Libraries, Sustainable Libraries Initiative Partner to Give ARL Members Access to Sustainability Resources and Tools
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries and SLI: Sustainable Libraries Initiative)
Also from ARL: ARL Libraries Celebrate Banned Books Week 2024
Banned Books Week Starts With Mixed Messages as Reports Show Challenges Both Up and Down
(AP: Associated Press)
EBSCO Information Services Releases Serials Price Projection Report for 2025
(EBSCO)
Full Program For 2024 CRKN Member Summit and AGM Now Available Online
(CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network)
ITAL Issue on Artificial Intelligence (AI)
(ITAL: Information Technology and Libraries)
NSF and Philanthropic Partners Invest More Than $18 Million to Prioritize Ethical and Societal Considerations in the Creation of Emerging Technologies
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
The Data Culture Framework: Infusing Data Throughout the Campus Culture
(APLU: Association of Public & Land-grant Universities)
The National Archives: A Small Agency with a Big Responsibility Safeguarding American and World History
(60 Minutes, CBS News)
Updated OER Publishing Toolkits
(OEN: Open Education Network)
VIdeo: History of Academic Freedom in Higher Education
(American Historical Association via C-SPAN)
ARL Member Libraries
ASU Library Welcomes Second Cohort of “Memory Keepers” to Yearlong Fellowship
(Arizona State University (ASU) Library)
Connecting Collections
(New York Public Library and University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press)
Higher Ed
Harassed? Intimidated? Guidebook Offers Help to Scientists Under Attack
(Nature)
Advocacy & Public Policy
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Scholars & Scholarship
Leveraging the Power of Open Research Information to Foster Open Collaboration Towards an Equitable Not-for-Profit Ecosystem for Open Access Books
(Copim via Zenodo)
Luce/ACLS Digital Archives Mapping Project Publishes Open Database Resource Guide for China Studies
(ACLS: American Council on Learned Societies)
Research Citations Building Trust in Wikipedia (preprint)
(arXiv)
The Impact of Large Language Models in Academia: From Writing to Speaking (preprint)
(arXiv)
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Tuesday, September 24
Top o’ the Review
ARL Invites Applications for DEI Institute 2025 Delegations
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Bridging Talent Shortages in Tech: Skills-First Hiring, Micro-credentials, and Inclusive Outreach
(OECD: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development)
See also: More Money for Less Time? Examining the Relative and Heterogenous Financial Returns to Non-degree Credentials and Degree Programs (EdWorking Papers)
Developing and Aligning Policies on Research Software: Recommendations for RFOs and RPOs
(Science Europe)
From Siloed Data to Shared Knowledge: How WorldFAIR Is Shaping the Future of Research
(ISC: International Science Council)
One in Seven Scientific Papers Is Fake, Suggests Study That Author Calls “Wildly Nonsystematic”
(Retraction Watch)
Publishers, Authors, Booksellers, and Libraries File Supreme Court Amicus Brief in Support of First Amendment Rights in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton
(AAP: Association of American Publishers)
Requesting Your Feedback on DataCite Metadata Schema Changes
(DataCite)
Researchers Put OpenAI’s o1 Through Its Paces, Exposing Both Breakthroughs and Limitations
(The Decoder)
Updates to Data Management and Access Practices Under the NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy
(NIH: US National Institutes of Health)
ARL Member Libraries
Current Data on the Digital Collections: A Statistical Report
(University of North Texas (UNT) University Libraries)
Digital Collections Earns National Digital Newspaper Grant
(University of South Carolina University Libraries)
Duke Libraries Awarded Funds to Expand Duke Family Archive
(Duke University Libraries)
Getty Awards the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection $250,000 to Digitize the John W. Mosley Photograph Collection
(Temple University Libraries)
New Hampshire Digital Newspaper Project (NHDNP): Two More Years!
(Dartmouth Libraries, Dartmouth College)
UC Libraries Names Jéanne Brooks Associate Dean for Operations and User Services
(University of Cincinnati (UC) Libraries)
WSU Press Finds New Home in WSU Libraries
(Washington State University (WSU) Libraries)
Higher Ed
IES Announces Rural Postsecondary Education R&D Center
(IES: Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education)
Peer Review Survey Shows Regional, Career-Stage Disparities
(University World News)
Raising Expectations for Institutional Intervention: What Colleges and Universities Can Do to Support Student-Parent Success
(ACE: American Council on Education)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Bipartisan Lawmakers Unveiling Measure Requiring Social Media Mental Health Warnings
(The Hill)
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Wednesday, September 25
Top o’ the Review
Announcing the Launch of the Peer Review Terminology Website: A Collaboration Between STM and NISO
(STM and NISO: National Information Standards Organization)
Apply to Serve on Our Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship Selection Committee
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Also from ARL: Opportunities to Protect Copyright User Rights from Contractual Override
Google Serving AI-Generated Images of Mushrooms Could Have “Devastating Consequences”
(404 Media)
Improving Open Access Discovery for Academic Library Users
(OCLC Research)
Publisher Adds Temporary Online Notifications to Articles “Under Investigation”
(Retraction Watch)
See also: Official statement from Taylor & Francis
Survey on Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Web-Scale Discovery from the NISO Open Discovery Initiative
(ODI: Open Discovery Initiative, NISO: National Information Standards Organization)
The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI
(Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
2024 EDUCAUSE Analytics Landscape Study
(EDUCAUSE)
While Graduate Degrees Yield the Highest Median Earnings of All Educational Credentials, Costs Have Tripled Since 2000, Georgetown University Report Says
(CEW: Center on Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University)
ARL Member Libraries
Cognitive Science Journal Open Mind to Be Cofunded by Harvard Library and MIT Libraries Through 2027 in an Effort to Advance Open Access Publishing
(MIT Press, Harvard Library, and MIT Libraries)
Delaware Nation to Digitize Dozens of Artifacts With OU Libraries
(University of Oklahoma (OU) Libraries via KOSU, NPR)
Freedom to Read Day of Action: Communities Unite Against Book Bans—Saturday, October 19
(NYPL: New York Public Library via Unite Against Book Bans)
Heard Libraries Launch Studio 608, a New Hub for Digital Narratives
(Vanderbilt University Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries)
Libraries and Monash University Team Up for Final “Great Rare Books Bake-Off”
(Penn State University Libraries)
Library of Congress Announces New Members of Copyright Public Modernization Committee
(LOC: Library of Congress)
Also from LOC: NAACP Legal Defense Fund Records Newly Digitized and Now Available Online from the Library of Congress
Nebraska Digital Newspaper Project Earns Additional National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Funding
(University of Nebraska–Lincoln University Libraries)
Higher Ed
Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) 2023
(NCSES: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Scholars & Scholarship
Good Omens: New Services, Accurate Research Data
(Journal of eScience Librarianship)
Which Features of AI-Based Tools Are Important for Students? A Choice-Based Conjoint Analysis
(Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence)
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Thursday, September 26
Top o’ the Review
Annual IP3 Awards—2024 Awardees: Geoffrey Starks, Caitriona Fitzgerald, Jonathan Band, Angela Siefer
(Public Knowledge)
Changes to Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Plan Progress Reporting and the Submission of Revised DMS Plans Are Coming on October 1
(NIH: US National Institutes of Health)
China’s Scientists Often Cite Work from Their Own Nation. Is That Skewing Global Research Rankings?
(Science)
Knowledge Infrastructures Are Growing Up: The Case for Institutional (Data) Repositories 10 Years After the Holdren Memo
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries via Data Science Journal)
Letter to US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission on Generative AI and Copyright
(Re:Create Coalition)
Leveraging Analytics for DEI-Driven Archival and Preservation Practices: A Multifaceted Approach
(CLOCKSS)
Open Book Futures InfoHub Scoping Report
(Copim via Zenodo)
Also from Copim: Developing an Information Hub for the Open Access Book Community
Video Playlist: Sessions from the DataCite Community Meeting 2024
(DataCite via YouTube)
ARL Member Libraries
Bibliopolítica: A Digital History of the Chicano Studies Library
(University of California (UC), Berkeley Library)
Bookstore, Library Work to Keep Course Material Costs Down
(Iowa State University Library)
Gathering Across Disciplines to Create Sensible Research Data Management Strategies
(University of Waterloo Library via The CNI Interviews Podcast, EDUCAUSE)
Grant to Support Continued Work of Collaborative Curation by WSU, Partners, Native Nations
(Washington State University (WSU) Libraries)
Launch of The Gaming Hub: Interviews with Professor Thomas Burelli (Radio Canada) and Librarian Mish Boutet (CBC)
(University of Ottawa Library)
Margaret Meserve Named Interim Dean of Libraries and Press at University of Notre Dame
(University of Notre Dame via ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Purdue University Research Repository Obtains CoreTrustSeal Approval
(Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies)
Sharing Knowledge: Projects and Outreach for Indigenous Patrons, Languages, and Documents (preprint)
(Arizona State University Library, Indiana University Libraries Bloomington, and Library of Congress via portal: Libraries and the Academy)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Immigrant-Origin Students in Higher Education: Powering the Future Workforce and Helping to Drive Excellence and Innovation on Our Campuses, in Our Communities, and for Our Country
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
Scholars & Scholarship
Alan Turing and DNA Papers Among Historical Peer Review Reports Made Public for First Time
(The Royal Society)
Bigger AI Chatbots More Inclined to Spew Nonsense—and People Don’t Always Realize
(Nature)
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Information Industry Analyst
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