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Day in Review (April 11–13)

Last Updated on April 14, 2023, 8:41 am ET

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Tuesday, April 11

Top o’ the Review

AI Now Publishes 2023 Landscape Report on Confronting Tech Power
(AI Now Institute)

An Initial Scholarly AI Taxonomy: Potential Roles for AI in a Publishing Workflow
(Upstream)

arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv Respond to Nelson Memo on Access to Federally Funded Research
(infoDOCKET)

CNI Spring 2023 Plenary Videos Now Available
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)

Lyrasis Awarded $1.5 Million Mellon Grant to Continue and Expand Performing Arts Readiness (PAR) Project
(Lyrasis)

Mellon Foundation Awards Educopia $2.1 Million for Organizational Capacity Building
(Educopia Institute)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Behind-the-Scenes Badgers: Answering “Ask a Librarian” Questions
(University of Wisconsin–Madison)

Carol Smith Selected as Next Dean of University of Kansas (KU) Libraries
(University of Kansas Libraries)

Exhibition Explores How Art Influences Art
(Georgetown University Library)

National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Welcomes Syracuse University Libraries, Two Additional New Members
(DLF: Digital Library Federation)

University of California (UC) Agreement with Wiley Expands to All 10 UC Campuses
(Office of Scholarly Communication, University of California)

 

Libraries—Other

Cambridge Open-Access Fees Waived for Over 100 Countries
(Cambridge University Press & Assessment)

Going for Gold, Deep in the Red: 2023 Periodicals Price Survey
(LJ: Library Journal)

 

Higher Ed

ACLS Publishes 2022 Annual Report
(ACLS: American Council of Learned Societies)

Higher Education in Canada: Decoding, Deconstructing, and Decolonizing Our Future
(Knowledge Equity Lab)

US Faculty Survey Updates: 2021 Data Now Available and Looking Ahead to 2024
(Ithaka S+R)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

NTIA Seeks Public Input to Boost AI Accountability
(NTIA: National Telecommunications and Information Administration, US Department of Commerce)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Do Open-Access Mandates Work? A Systematized Review of the Literature on Open-Access Publishing Rates
(JLSC: Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)

Leaders in Open Data: Dryad Welcomes New Institutions and Publishers, Including Three ARL Member Institutions
(Dryad)

ORCID Publishes 2022 Annual Report
(ORCID)

 

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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
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Wednesday, April 12

Top o’ the Review

APLU and ASEE Release Report on Fostering Underrepresented Student Success in STEM
(APLU: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and ASEE: American Society for Engineering Education)

Before We Redefine the Library Experience We Need to Know What We Want It to Be
(Charleston Hub)

Call for Presentations and Papers—GW Ethics in Publishing Conference 2023
(13th GW Ethics in Publishing Conference, The George Washington University)

CRKN Celebrates Five Years Since Merger with Canadiana
(CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network)

The Gagarin Center at Bard College and PEN America Establish Russian Independent Media Archive
(Bard College)

Toxicity in ChatGPT
(AI2: Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Celebrating More Than Two Decades of Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts
(VCU: Virginia Commonwealth University)

Easy as 1-2-Tree: McMaster Students Promoting Search Engine to Support Reforestation
(McMaster University Library)

Search Starts for Vice Provost of Libraries
(University of Wisconsin–Madison)

UMass Amherst Libraries Bring City Nature Challenge to Western Massachusetts
(University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries)

Upcoming Virtual Public Meeting (Tuesday, April 25): ClinicalTrials.gov Modernization
(NLM: US National Library of Medicine)

Video: Democracy and AI—The Encroaching Machine: Reframing Rights in the Age of AI
(The University of Chicago)

 

Libraries—Other

Information Literacy Section Call for Papers: “Let’s Work Together to Develop Critical Thinkers in the ChatGPT Era”
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)

 

Higher Ed

TikTok Crackdown and Higher Education
(EDUCAUSE Review)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Canadian Provincial Budget Round-Up 2023: Highlights for the University Sector
(University Affairs)

“I Didn’t Give Permission”: Do AI’s Backers Care about Data Law Breaches?
(The Guardian)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

A Comparative Study of the Coverage of African Journals in Web of Science, Scopus, and CrossRef
(JASIST: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)

Video: Wikidata + Books Workshop
(Wikimedia Foundation)

 

In Other News

FBI Warns against Using Public Phone-Charging Stations
(NBC News)

 

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Thursday, April 13

Top o’ the Review

cOAlition S Provides Feedback to US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Regarding Its Public Access Plan
(cOAlition S)

First Grants Announced from the Wikimedia Endowment to Support Technical Innovation across Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects
(Wikimedia Foundation)

Sorenson Impact Center Releases First-Ever Dashboard to Forecast Future Enrollment Trends in Higher Education
(Sorenson Impact Center, The University of Utah)

The Hacking of ChatGPT Is Just Getting Started
(WIRED)

Tracie D. Hall Named to TIME’s Annual TIME100 List of the 100 Most Influential People in the World
(ALA: American Library Association)

Video: The Oxford Dictionary of African American English: First 100 Words
(Oxford Languages, Oxford University Press)

 

ARL Member Libraries

ASU Black Collections Symposium Reimagines, Centers Communities in Archives
(ASU: Arizona State University)

Library Staff Supports Young Historians in Connecticut History Day Regional Contests
(Yale University Library)

NASIG 2023 Election Results: Leader from University of Colorado Boulder Elected Vice President/President-Elect
(NASIG)

Newly Expanded Website for the Black Iowa State College (ISC) Student Experience to 1950 Project
(Iowa State University Library)

Preserving Houston’s LGBTQ Broadcast History: The Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and Television Digitization Project
(University of Houston Libraries)

2023 ACRL Election Results: Leaders from U Illinois, NC State, Texas Tech Elected
(ACRL: Association of College & Research Libraries)

Upcoming Free Conference (Thursday–Sunday, April 27–30): Radio Preservation Task Force 2023 Conference
(Library of Congress and Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)

 

Higher Ed

Alternative Postsecondary Education Providers: Mapping the Ecosystem
(EDUCAUSE Review)

Analysis of Financial Challenges Faced by Graduate Students in Canada
(Biochemistry and Cell Biology)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, and the News
(CJR: Columbia Journalism Review)

National Academies Launch New Climate Crossroads Initiative
(US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)

Scoop: Schumer Lays Groundwork for Congress to Regulate AI
(Axios)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

COPIM and Community-Led Infrastructures for Open-Access Books: Where Are We Now and What’s Next?
(COPIM: Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs)

Exposure to Untrustworthy Websites in the 2020 US Election
(Nature Human Behaviour)
Note: The New York Times published a story about this study.

 

Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian


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