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Day in Review (March 20–23)

Last Updated on March 23, 2023, 2:41 pm ET

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Note: Day in Review will be on hiatus next week, Monday–Thursday, March 27–30, returning Monday, April 3, 2023.

Monday, March 20

Top o’ the Review

ChatGPT Sends Shockwaves across College Campuses
(The Hill)

IPLC Launches the Historical Representation at American House Museums Web Archive
(IPLC: Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation)

Researchers Launch Database with New Classification System for Minority-Serving Institutions in US
(NYU: New York University)

Revision of the Standards for Accreditation of Master’s Programs in Library and Information Studies
(ALA: American Library Association)

Supporting Public–Academic Library Partnerships
(Ithaka S+R)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Digital Tool Training Helps Students Explore Classical Japanese Literature at UBC Library
(UBC: The University of British Columbia Library)

Future of Scholarly Communications Committee Promotes Equitable, Sustainable Academic Publications at Faculty Senate Meeting
(Cornell Daily Sun)

New Finding Aid to the Maryland Province Archives Available
(Georgetown University Library)

PUL Digitizes Letter from John Brown to Frederick Douglass
(PUL: Princeton University Library)

Survey Finds 50 Percent of York Instructor Respondents Are Creating Their Own Open Educational Resources
(York University Libraries)

UCLA Ethnic Studies Librarians Partner with Communities to Preserve Their Histories
(Daily Bruin)

 

Libraries—Other

Everything Librarians Need to Know about Transformative Agreements (TAs)!
(ESAC Initiative)

 

Higher Ed

When Universities Slap Their Names on For-Profit Coding Boot Camps
(Hechinger Report)

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

The University of Chicago Engages in Faculty Diversity Initiative
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Endangered Academic Freedom Threatens America’s Best Idea
(Liberal Education: The Magazine of the American Association of Colleges and Universities)

IMLS Welcomes Seven New Members to the National Museum and Library Services Board
(IMLS: US Institute of Museum and Library Services)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

A Search Engine Researcher Explains the Pros and Cons of Letting ChatGPT and Other Chatbots Search the Web for You
(Fast Company)

How Academic Opinion Leaders Shape Scientific Ideas: An Acknowledgment Analysis
(Scientometrics)

Reclaiming the Digital Commons: A Public Data Trust for Training Data (preprint)
(arXiv)

Video: ROR Schema Changes Call
(ROR: Research Organization Registry YouTube Channel)

 

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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
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Tuesday, March 21

Top o’ the Review

AI Makes Plagiarism Harder to Detect, Argue Academics—in Paper Written by Chatbot
(The Guardian)

Building the Prototype Open Knowledge Network (Proto-OKN)
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)

CORE-GPT: Combining Open Access Research and AI for Credible, Trustworthy Question-Answering
(CORE)

Create Images with Your Words—Bing Image Creator Comes to the New Bing
(Microsoft)

Registration Now Open—May 24–26 Nobel Prize Summit on Misinformation and Trust in Science
(US National Academies of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation)

ARL Member Libraries

Click&Push Adds Cameron Library to “The Atlas”
(University of Alberta Library)

McMaster Library Pilot Program Offers Drop-In Research Support to Students
(McMaster University Library)

Stony Brook University Joins the Dryad Digital Repository
(Stony Brook University Libraries)

Upcoming Hybrid Event (Thursday, March 30): Navigating the Digital Publishing Landscape: Integrating Media, Narrative, Technology in Multimodal Scholarship
(The University of Chicago Library)

Updated Guidance for Reporting Publication Changes to MEDLINE and PubMed Central (PMC) Journals
(NLM: US National Library of Medicine)

 

Higher Ed—Other

Improving Personal Agility
(EDUCAUSE Review)

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Learn about NIH’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Strategic Plan for FY 2023 to 2027
(NIH: US National Institutes of Health)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Don’s Conference Notes—R2R: The 2023 Researcher to Reader Conference
(Charleston Hub)

GPTs (Generative Pre-trained Transformers) are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor-Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models (preprint)
(arXiv)

JAMA’s New Editor Settles In, Bringing Open Access and Other Changes
(STAT)

The Alan Turing Institute Launches New Strategy Using Data Science and AI for Social Good
(The Alan Turing Institute)

The Patenting versus Publishing Dilemma
(Nature Communications)

 

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Wednesday, March 22

Top o’ the Review

ERC Study Identifies Repositories That Allow Researchers to Comply with EU Open Science Rules
(ERC: European Research Council)

Inaugural AAAS Multidisciplinary Working Group to Focus on STEMM Workforce Development
(AAAS: American Association for the Advancement of Science)

Merkley, Durbin, Krishnamoorthi Team Up to Protect Students from Worthless Degrees
(US Senator Jeff Merkley)

Partnership Quarterly Report—March 2023 & Welcoming a New Program and Program Coordinator
(Partnership for Shared Book Collections)

The College Student Behavioral Health Report 2023
(United Healthcare)

Trends in Extramural Research Integrity Allegations Received at NIH
(NIH: US National Institutes of Health)

 

ARL Member Libraries

LSU Libraries Special Collections Restores Historic Mardi Gras Scrapbook
(LSU Libraries)

PLOS Announces Newest Joiners to the CRL/NERL Agreement
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries, NERL: Northeast Research Libraries, and PLOS: Public Library of Science)

Researchers Looking for Patterns to Combat Cyberbullying
(Virginia Tech University Libraries)

 

Libraries—Other

Campus Strategies for Data Support Services: Welcoming the Second Cohort
(Ithaka S+R)

The Impact of Job Crafting and Work Engagement on Academic Librarians before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Article Preview)
(Journal of Academic Librarianship)

 

Higher Ed—Members

Diversifying Higher Education Faculty
(UC Irvine, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Santa Cruz)

 

Higher Ed—Other

MLA Awarded $1.5 Million Mellon Grant
(MLA: Modern Language Association)

Settlement Will Wipe $6B in Student Loan Debt—but Not for These Borrowers
(Washington Post)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

COSSA Releases Analysis of President’s Budget Request for FY 2024 for Social Science
(COSSA: Consortium of Social Science Associations)

Take Action for US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Funding in FY 2024
(SAA: Society of American Archivists)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Defying Easy Categorization: Wikipedia as Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Resource
(Insights: The UKSG Journal)

Researchers Decry a Lack of Clarity under National Security Risk Assessments
(UA: University Affairs)

 

In Other News

AI Spring? Four Takeaways from Major Releases in Foundation Models
(HAI: Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)

 

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Information Industry Analyst
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Thursday, March 23

Top o’ the Review

American Library Association Reports Record Number of Demands to Censor Library Books and Materials in 2022: Book Challenges Nearly Doubled from 2021
(ALA: American Library Association)

Canada Demonstrates Once Again Its Solid Commitment to Open Infrastructure
(SCOSS: Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services)

CCAHA and Lyrasis Announce Succession Planning Initiative for Collections Stewardship
(Lyrasis and CCAHA: Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts)

Coalition Urges Congress to Halt Efforts on TikTok Ban, Pass Privacy Legislation
(CDT: Center for Democracy & Technology)

Impact Assessment of Research: National Frameworks and Best Practices
(Publication Forum)

Upcoming Online Event (Monday, April 17): How Do We Make Accessible Research Papers a Reality?
(arXiv)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Dr. Lorie Kloda Appointed Vice-Dean, McGill University Library
(McGill University Library)

Ellis Library West Stacks Renovation Project Update
(University of Missouri Libraries)

Expanded Judy Chicago Research Portal Relaunches with Five Unified Collections
(Penn State University Libraries)

NLM’s Research Mission: Advancing Data and Information Science
(NLM: US National Library of Medicine)

University of Pennsylvania Libraries Receives Archive of Writer, Historian, and Activist James G. Spady
(Penn Libraries)

 

Higher Ed

At-Home STEM Lab Kits in Higher Education
(OLC: Online Learning Consortium)

Chart: Educational Attainment Improved in Rural America but Educational Gap with Urban Areas Grew for Bachelor’s Degrees and Higher
(USDA: US Department of Agriculture)

Will Chatbots Help or Hamper Medical Education? Here Is What Humans (and Chatbots) Say
(AAMC: Association of American Medical Colleges)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Department of Education Announces Public Hearings on Higher Education Rulemaking
(US Department of Education)

Education Sciences Reform Act (ESRA): A Primer
(CRS: Congressional Research Service)

Webinar Video and Materials: Why States Can Already Hire Undocumented Students
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Start Citing Data Now. Not Later
(Crossref)

The Role of Results in Deciding to Publish (preprint)
(MetaArXiv Preprints)

 

In Other News

Personalized AI-Powered Tutors Are Here, but at a Premium
(The Report)

 

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


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