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Day in Review (January 3–5)

Last Updated on January 5, 2023, 5:04 pm ET

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Tuesday, January 3

Top o’ the Review

Canada Extends Copyright Protection Another 20 Years to Meet New Trade Obligation
(CTV News)

Universities, Rich in Data, Struggle to Capture Its Value, Study Finds
(UCLA)

US News Tweaks Law School Formula in Bid to Quell Ranking Revolt
(Washington Post)

US Open Textbook Pilot Program Renewed for Sixth Year
(SPARC)

White House Releases Fifth Open Government National Action Plan to Advance a More Inclusive, Responsive, and Accountable Government
(The White House)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Brent Reidy Named The New York Public Library’s Andrew W. Mellon Director of the Research Libraries
(New York Public Library)

NARA Becomes Latest Agency to Expand Telework in New Union Agreement
(NARA: US National Archives and Records Administration via Federal News Network)

 

Libraries—Other

Closing Plenary: Utopia for Networked Knowledge in the Library and the Academy
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)

 

Higher Ed

Pushing to Remove Legal Barriers for Formerly Incarcerated Student
(UC Berkeley)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

​​Data Brokers Raise Privacy Concerns—but Get Millions from the Federal Government
(Politico)

FY 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Omits Incident-Reporting Amendment
(EDUCAUSE Review)

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Interventions Associated with Racial and Ethnic Diversity in US Graduate Medical Education: A Scoping Review
(JAMA Network Open)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

A Model for Data-Ethics Instruction for Non-experts
(IASSIST Quarterly)

Comparing Scientific Abstracts Generated by ChatGPT to Original Abstracts Using an Artificial Intelligence Output Detector, Plagiarism Detector, and Blinded Human Reviewers (preprint)
(bioRxiv)

New Project: Open-Science Cloud Infrastructure and Training for Communities in Latin America and Africa
(IOI: Invest in Open Infrastructure)

Preparing for the 2023 Data Management and Sharing Policy
(US National Institutes of Health, Office of Data Science Strategy)

Wrapping Up 2022 with Over 1,000 ARK Organizations
(ARK Alliance)

 

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


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Wednesday, January 4

Top o’ the Review

Defining Artificial Intelligence for Librarians
(Journal of Librarianship and Information Science)

DPLA to Make Cultural Treasures Freely Available on Wikipedia with New Sloan Foundation Support
(DPLA: Digital Public Library of America)

Microsoft to Challenge Google by Integrating ChatGPT with Bing Search
(The Verge)

PKP Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary
(PKP: Public Knowledge Project)

Project MUSE Hosts New Interactive Open-Access Born-Digital Chapter
(Project MUSE)

Three Reasons Why Selective Colleges Need to Invest in Veterans
(Ithaka S+R)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Angel Peterson Receives the 2022 Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) Award for Exemplary Service
(Penn State University Libraries via Library Publishing Coalition)

Read, Hot & Digitized: Art and Revolution
(University of Texas Libraries)

The African American Cultural Center and the Libraries to Co-host the First Black Research Symposium in March
(NC State University Libraries)

UW Libraries Negotiates 2023 Contract with Elsevier
(University of Washington Libraries)

 

Libraries—Other

January 1, 2023, Is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 Are Open to All!
(Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School)

Joint Partnership & Rosemont Update Webinar: Thursday, February 23
(Partnership for Shared Book Collections)

 

Higher Ed

New NSF Program Seeks to Engage Minority-Serving Institutions in Artificial Intelligence Research
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)

The High Cost of Inadequate Funding for Grad Students
(University Affairs)

What Are “Promise Programs” and How Can They Help Make College More Affordable?
(PBS NewsHour)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Governors’ TikTok Bans Make Sense, Cybersecurity Experts Say
(Stateline)

Roadmap for Researchers on Priorities Related to Information Integrity Research and Development
(US National Science & Technology Council, The White House)

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The More Inclusion We Have in Science, the Better Outcomes We’ll Get
(Issues in Science and Technology)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

DataCite Celebrate and Reflect on a Year of Global Community Collaboration
(DataCite)

 

In Other News

US R&D Increased by $51 Billion in 2020 to $717 Billion; Estimate for 2021 Indicates Further Increase to $792 Billion
(National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, US National Science Foundation)

 

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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian


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Thursday, January 5

Top o’ the Review

Copyright and Streaming Audiovisual Content in the US Context
(Ithaka S+R and Association of Research Libraries)

ITHAKA and JSTOR in 2023: A Letter from Kevin Guthrie
(ITHAKA)

Occupational Profile and Work Tasks of Canadian PhDs: Gender and Field-of-Study Differences
(Statistics Canada)

200 Million Twitter Users’ Email Addresses Allegedly Leaked Online
(Bleeping Computer)

Video: Reactive and Proactive Archiving of Crisis
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Digital Initiatives’ 2022 Year in Review
(University of Missouri Libraries)

FSU Libraries Names New Associate Dean of Research and Learning Services
(FSU: Florida State University)

Searching Native American Newspapers in Chronicling America
(Library of Congress)

University of Utah Libraries Announces New Dean of Libraries
(The University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library)

 

Libraries—Other

Development and Validation of the Library Ethics Scale
(Library & Information Science Research)

 

Higher Ed

New Advisory Panel Hopes to Bring Fresh Look at Research Support
(University Affairs)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Biden Renominates Sohn to Serve as 5th FCC Commissioner
(Nextgov)

COGR Announces Matt Owens as Incoming COGR President
(COGR: Council on Governmental  Relations)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

European Academies Hit Out at High Author Charges for Open Access Publishing
(Science | Business)

How Much Do APCs Cost French Research Institutions?
(Committee for Open Science, French Ministry of Higher Education and Research)

 

In Other News

Death of the Narrator? Apple Unveils Suite of AI-Voiced Audiobooks
(The Guardian)

Unpacking the “Black Box” of AI in Education (preprint)
(arXiv)

 

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


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