Day in Review (July 21–July 23)

Last Updated on July 23, 2025, 3:40 pm ET

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Note: Day in Review will be on hiatus Thursday, July 24, returning on Monday, July 28.

Monday, July 21

Top o’ the Review

Academic Security and Counter Exploitation (ASCE) 2026: Call for Proposals by August 31
(Research and Innovation Security and Competitiveness Institute, The Texas A&M University System)

An Updated NIH and Publisher Guidance: What Authors Need to Know About NIH’s Public Access Policy
(Authors Alliance)

Announcing the Second Edition of the Library Publishing Research Agenda
(LPC: Library Publishing Coalition)

ARL Monitor: Public Edition (Summer 2025)
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)

Building The Public Interest Corpus for AI and Computational Research
(The CNI Interviews Podcast, EDUCAUSE Review)

Disparities by Design: Toward a Research Agenda That Links Science Misinformation and Socioeconomic Marginalization in the Age of AI
(Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review)

Gemini Is “Strict and Punitive” While ChatGPT Is “Catastrophically” Cooperative, Researchers Say
(404 Media)

Microsoft to Make Notre-Dame “Digital Twin” and Boost Its European Languages for Its AI Models
(Euronews)

Science Out of Its Ivory Tower: Improving Accessibility with Reinforcement Learning
(Scientometics)

ARL Member Libraries

Clara Drummond Appointed Director of Northwestern’s Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections and University Archives
(Northwestern University Libraries)

Libraries’ Archives Continues to Expand Contemporary Chapbooks Collection
(McMaster University Libraries)

New Community of Practice for Exploring Content Provenance and Authenticity in the Age of AI
(Library of Congress)

Rose Library Awarded Getty Foundation Grant to Process Jim Alexander Photography Collection
(Emory Libraries, Emory University)

Three Open Access Experts Converge for Penn State Open Access Week 2025 Panel
(Penn State University Libraries)

UI Librarians Share Services, Purpose for Undergraduates
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University Library via The Daily Illini)

Yale University Joins ReCAP
(Columbia University Libraries, Harvard Library, The New York Public Library, and Princeton University, and Yale University Library)

Scholars & Scholarship

AI Companies Replacing Low-Cost Data Labelers with a Mix of Automation and Experts
(Computing UK)

Upcoming Conference: Open Science Fair 2025, Geneva, Switzerland (Monday–Wednesday, September 15–17)
(CERN Open Science and OpenAIRE)
Also from OpenAIRE: Reframing Research Assessment: A New Vision for Researcher Profiles

US Research Community Says New Indirect Cost Model Is Still Too Complicated
(Science)
Also from Science: Fearful of AI-Generated Grant Proposals, NIH Limits Scientists to Six Applications per Year

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

Tuesday, July 22

Top o’ the Review

AI and Copyright: What Authors and Libraries Need to Know about the Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta Cases
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries and Authors Alliance)

AI Should Run on 100% Renewable Energy by 2030, UN Chief Says
(Financial Post)

AI’s Anything-Goes Moment
(Axios)

Capping Article Processing Charges (APCs) May Backfire on NIH
(Upstream, FORCE11)

Eurodoc Releases Statement on Responsible Use of AI in Science
(Eurodoc: The European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers)

Google Users Are Less Likely to Click on Links When an AI Summary Appears in the Results
(Pew Research Center)

IFLA Selects Busan, South Korea, to Host the 2026 World Library and Information Congress
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Also from IFLA: Addressing the Perceptions Gap: IFLA Regional Advocacy Priorities Survey Results 2025

Kate Zwaard Named Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)

US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Must Make Appropriations Website Public Again, Judge Rules
(FedScoop)

ARL Member Libraries

Digital Library Platform Connects History, Science, and Community
(Virginia Tech University Libraries)

Heard Libraries Exhibit Marks Scopes Anniversary, 150 Years of Evolution at Vanderbilt
(Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt University)

New Grant to Preserve the History of Tyson Research Center
(WashU Libraries, Washington University in St. Louis)

Registration Open for Designing Libraries XII: September 28–30, 2025, Rochester, New York
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information; NC State University Libraries; Tom Hickerson, Conference Founder; and University of Rochester River Campus Libraries)

Higher Ed

Podcast: Meaningful Climate Action Is Higher Ed’s Responsibility
(Lumina Foundation)

Trump Proposes 90% Cut to Funding of Tribal Colleges
(University World News)

Upcoming Webinar: International Student Visa Delays and What’s Ahead: What Colleges and Universities Need to Know (Wednesday, July 30)
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)

Scholars & Scholarship

A Study of Search Result Aggregation Approaches for the Digital Humanities
(JASIST: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology)

Analysis of Scientific Paper Retractions Due to Data Problems: Revealing Challenges and Countermeasures in Data Management
(Accountability in Research)

Analyzing Research Funding Flows in the Global South
(Leiden Madtrics)

Generative Artificial Intelligence and University Libraries in Latin America
(IFLA Journal)

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

Wednesday, July 23

Top o’ the Review

From Workshops to Action: How The National Library of Finland Is Building Sustainability into Their Daily Practice
(Europeana Foundation)

Funder Preprint Policy Framework
(ORFG: Open Research Funders Group)

In “Blow to the Environment,” EPA Begins to Dismantle Its Research Office
(Science)

New Report Shows China Science Enterprise on the Rise, Business Continues to Lead US R&D
(National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF: US National Science Foundation)

Science Agency Staffers Speak Out About Trump Administration’s Actions
(Scientific American)

The Beta Version of the Transparency to Sustain Open Science Infrastructure (TSOSI) Platform Has Been Launched
(French Ministry of Higher Education and Research)

Trump Administration Releases Plan for Winning the “AI Race”
(The Hill)
See also:

America’s AI Action Plan (July 2025) (The White House)
US Department of Education Issues Guidance on Artificial Intelligence Use in Schools, Proposes Additional Supplemental Priority (US Department of Education)

Upcoming Canadian Repositories Community of Practice Call—From Campus to Community Researchers: Evolving the Role of Institutional Repositories (Wednesday, August 27, 2025)
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)

What News Sources AI Chat Bots Read
(Axios)
See also: Here’s the List of Websites Gig Workers Used to Fine-Tune Anthropic’s AI Models. Its Contractor Left It Wide Open. (Business Insider)

ARL Member Libraries

Collaborating on a Digital Music Archive: U-M’s contributions to the Sounding Spirit Digital Library
(University of Michigan (U-M) Library)

Interim Dean for Smathers Libraries Bleeds Orange and Blue
(George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida)

UD Library, Museums and Press Announces Inaugural Open Data Impact Awards
(University of Delaware (UD) Library, Museums and Press)

UGA Special Collections Archivist Wins Georgia Author of the Year for Fantasy Debut
(University of Georgia (UGA) Libraries)
Also from UGA Libraries: UGA Librarians Are Authors, Too

Welcome New 2025 Program Steering Committee Members
(Penn State University Libraries, The University of Arizona LIbraries, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign University Library via HathiTrust)