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Day in Review (May 8–11)

Last Updated on May 12, 2023, 10:27 am ET

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Monday, May 8

Top o’ the Review

EU Ready to Back Immediate Open Access without Author Fees
(Research Professional News)
EU Document cited in article: Draft Council Conclusions on High-Quality, Transparent, Open, Trustworthy, and Equitable Scholarly Publishing (May 4, 2023)

“Free People Read Freely.” Read Librarian Tracie D. Hall’s Full TIME100 Speech
(TIME)

Is There a Case for Accepting Machine-Translated Scholarly Content in Repositories?
(COAR: Confederation of Open Access Repositories)

The CLEAR Path: A Framework for Enhancing Information Literacy through Prompt Engineering
(Journal of Academic Librarianship)

2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Teaching and Learning Edition
(EDUCAUSE)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Libraries Amplifies Black History and Visual Culture with Digital Collection
(Penn State)

MIT Press Receives $10 Million Endowment Gift from Arcadia for Open Access to Knowledge
(MIT Press)

New ASU Fund Helps Researchers Publish in Open-Access Journals
(Arizona State University)

OA and the Academy: Evaluating an OA Fund with Authors’ Input
(Virginia Tech University Libraries via College & Research Libraries)

PhiloBiblon 2023 n. 3 (May): NEH support for PhiloBiblon and the Wikiworld
(UC Berkeley Library)

Samir Husni Magazine Collection Donated to MU Libraries
(University of Missouri Libraries)

UGA’s Russell Library Awarded NEH Grant to Contribute to National Political Digital Archive
(University of Georgia Libraries)

Video: CRL and the Postcolonial Knowledge Commons: From Call to Action to Community Practice
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries)

 

Libraries—Other

Now Available: IFLA Principles for Responding to Conflict
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)

 

Higher Ed

DOE Announces $7.75 Million Investment in HBCUs to Support STEM Workforce
(DOE: US Department of Energy)

Spotlight Series Recap: Incentivizing Open in Reappointment, Promotion, Tenure, and Hiring
(HELIOS: Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Science Europe Signs DORA Declaration on Research Assessment
(Science Europe)

16th Berlin Open Access Conference: Together for Transformation
(OA2020: Open Access 2020)

Words as Gatekeepers: Measuring Discipline-Specific Terms and Meanings in Scholarly Publications
(AI2 Blog)

 

In Other News

AI Is Helping Companies Redefine, Not Just Improve, Performance
(MIT Sloan Management Review)

 

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


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Tuesday, May 9

Top o’ the Review

ChatGPT in Education: A Discourse Analysis of Worries and Concerns on Social Media (preprint)
(arXiv)

China Limits Data after US Research Spurred Alarm, WSJ Says
(BNN Bloomberg)

CRKN and Érudit Renew Their Partnership for Open Access for an Additional Two Years
(CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network)

Quick Poll Results: ARL Member Representatives on Generative AI in Libraries
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)

What AI Can Teach Us about Copyright and Fair Use
(Freethink)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Dog Fight: The Animal Experimentation Debate in 20th-Century Chicago
(The University of Chicago Library)

Dr. Gurdev Khush, Celebrated Rice Breeder, Donates Papers to UC Davis Library
(UC Davis Library)

Library of Congress Completes Digitization of Yongle Encyclopedia, Largest Reference Work of Pre-modern Era
(Library of Congress)

PURR Integration with Globus: A Big Opportunity for Big Data at Purdue
(Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies)

UIC Library Faculty Win Top Honors in IACRL People’s Choice Awards in Scholarly Publishing
(University of Illinois Chicago Library)

 

Libraries—Other

Call for Applications: An Introduction to Web Archive Data Analysis and Instruction
(Archive-It)

 

Higher Ed

NSF Announces Seven New National AI Research Institutes—Six at ARL Member Institutions
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

ACE, Other Associations Support Tax-Free Pell Grant Act
(ACE: American Council on Education)

Data Portability and Interoperability: A Primer on Two Policy Tools for Regulation of Digitized Industries
(The Brookings Institution)

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Tackling Inequities in Emerging Technologies
(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Academic Journals, Incentives, and the Quality of Peer Review: A Model (preprint)
(Philosophy of Science)

Open Access (OA) at a Crossroads: Library Publishing and Bibliodiversity
(Insights: The UKSG Journal)

Ubiquity Press Responds to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Call for Information, as Part of Fully OA Group
(Ubiquity Press)

Upcoming Event (Monday–Wednesday, September 4–6): International Symposium on Open Science Cloud 2023
(CODATA: Committee on Data, International Science Council)

 

In Other News

Will AI Fix Work?: Work Trend Index Annual Report
(Microsoft)

 

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Information Industry Analyst
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Wednesday, May 10

Top o’ the Review

AI and the Book Business: Association of American Publishers (AAP) Annual General Meeting
(Publishing Perspectives)

MPs Call for Research Sector Reforms to Address Concerns with Reproducibility of Science
(UK Parliament)

OpenAI Works on Copyright Solution for Large AI Models
(The Decoder)

Registration Is Now Open for the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, to Convene October 23–27
(cOAlition S)

Shogan Confirmed by US Senate as 11th Archivist of the United States
(NARA: US National Archives and Records Administration)

Significant Educational Strides by Young Hispanic Population
(US Census Bureau)

The Public Knowledge Project’s Declaration of Scholarly Independence
(PKP: Public Knowledge Project)

 

ARL Member Libraries

DIY/DEI: Supporting First-Generation College Students
(NC State University Libraries)

Duke Considers Pros and Cons of Artificial Intelligence
(Duke University Libraries)

Funding Announced for Affordable-Course-Materials Infrastructure Projects
(Iowa State University Library)

University Libraries Provides an Oasis for Aggie Veterans
(Texas A&M University)

 

Libraries—Other

 

Higher Ed—Members

College Degrees Seem Elusive to Many Young Students
(University of Georgia)

McMaster Launches Digital Learning Strategic Framework
(McMaster University)
Note: McMaster also recently launched a task force on generative AI in teaching and learning

 

Higher Ed—Other

Internship Experience the Top Differentiator in a Competitive Job Market
(NACE: National Association of Colleges and Employers)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

NIST Revises SP 800-171 Guidelines for Protecting Sensitive Information
(NIST: US National Institute of Standards and Technology)

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Data: A Contribution toward Indigenous Research Sovereignty
(Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Forty Editors at a Scientific Journal Just Resigned in Protest of Their Publisher’s “Greed”
(Salon)

New from Dryad: Strategic Planning at the Banbury Center
(Dryad)

Saving Time and Money In Biomedical Publishing: The Case for Free-Format Submissions with Minimal Requirements
(BMC Medicine)

 

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Thursday, May 11

Top o’ the Review

A Generative AI Primer
(UK National Centre for AI, Jisc)
Note: Today Jisc also posted Let Us Have the Data! — How Academic Librarians Can Meet the Challenges of AI

Americans Value College Education Despite Barriers
(Gallup)

Call for Applications — CARL Research Grant for Practicing Librarians
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)

IFLA Handbook v.1.0 Published
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Note: Earlier this week IFLA published Principles for Responding to Conflict

New, Handwritten Maimonides Texts Discovered at Cambridge University Library
(University of Cambridge)

Rumors Have Rules
(Issues in Science and Technology)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Columbia’s University Librarian Emeritus Jim Neal Receives 2023 John Ames/Humphry/OCLC/Forest Press Award
(ALA: American Library Association)

Director Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty Given Simmons University Honorary Doctoral Degree
(Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)

Fine Arts Library Brings Chinese Art History to Life
(The Ohio State University Libraries)

John Bence Named University Archivist
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)

LEGOLAND California Features Geisel Library in New Exhibit
(UC San Diego Library)

Video and Statement: Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden Testifies before US Senate Rules Committee
(US Senate Committee on Rules & Administration)

 

Higher Ed—Members

BU Appoints Kenneth Freeman Interim University President as Search Continues
(BU: Boston University)

Universities Canada’s Commitments to Truth and Reconciliation
(Universities Canada)

 

Data & Analytics

Making Data Analysis More AGILE
(IARPA: Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, US Office of the Director of  National Intelligence)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

An Analysis of Retracted Papers in Computer Science
(PLOS ONE)

Contours of a Research Ethics and Integrity Perspective on Open Science
(Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics)

Science Europe Conference Report on Open Science
(Science Europe)

 

In Other News

Google I/O 2023 — The Most Important AI Announcements
(The Decoder)

How AI Knows Things No One Told It
(Scientific American)

 

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


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