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eLife Receives £2.4m ($3.17m/USD) Grant From Wellcome to Build Open Publishing Ecosystem
From an eLife Post: eLife is pleased to announce funding from Wellcome which will support a new initiative, called eLife Pathways, in building an open and collaborative ecosystem for alternative approaches to scholarly communication. A founding funder and long-term supporter of eLife, Wellcome has awarded the non-profit a grant of [...]
Report From Missouri: St. Charles County Libraries Ban LGBTQ Flags, Other ‘Personal Belief’ Decor
From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Library employees here have been ordered to remove flags — including LGBTQ pride flags— and other decor that “promotes personal beliefs” from their workspaces, officials said on Tuesday. St. Charles City-County Library CEO John Greifzu said the move is part of a push to make the [...]
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Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive Founder and Director) is the Guest on the Latest Episode of ATG The Podcast
From the Charleston Hub Channel on YouTube: Today’s episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Brewster Kahle, Founder & Director, Internet Archive. Brewster says that back in the 1980’s he believed that everything would eventually become digital. He dreamed of building a Library of Alexandria where humanity’s knowledge would […]
Repositories: SocArXiv Releases AI Policy
From a Post by Philip N. Cohen, SocArXiv Director: In November 2025, we paused new submissions about AI topics. For about three months, we turned away papers about AI models, testing AI models, proposing AI models, theories about the future of AI and so on. We accepted some empirical social science research about AI in […]
Research Paper (preprint): Consensus and Fragmentation in Academic Publication Preferences
The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Consensus and Fragmentation in Academic Publication Preferences Authors Ian Van Buskirk University of Colorado Boulder Marilena Hohmann University of Copenhagen Ekaterina Landgren University of Colorado Boulder Stanford University Johan Ugander Yale University Aaron Clauset University of Colorado Boulder Santa Fe Institute Daniel B. Larremore University […]
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Video Recording of Yesterday’s Research Libraries UK (RLUK) Forum: “Research Library Strategy For Imagined Futures: The ARL/CNI Futurescape AI Experience”
From Research Libraries UK: Throughout the second half of 2025, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) held a series of workshops for research library leaders on using the Futurescape Libraries AI Toolkit—a modular resource for integrating the ARL/CNI AI Scenarios into institutional strategy and planning work. Judy Ruttenberg, […]
At the University of North Carolina, “AI Powers Research Into Film’s Past”
From the UNC College of Arts and Sciences: More than a decade ago, Carolina film historian Martin Johnson stumbled upon an archive documenting more than 10,000 forgotten films at the Library of Congress. The collection contained an index of films made in the span of just six years, 1915–1920, but held a dizzying amount of data to […]
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Final Report Available: Five University Libraries (UC Davis, Cornell, Ohio State, University of Michigan, and Rutgers) Collaborate on Mass Book Digitization Pilot Project
From a UC Davis Library Post: During 2023-2025, UC Davis, Cornell University, Ohio State University, University of Michigan, and Rutgers University coordinated to contribute scholarly content in two topic areas to the Google Books project. This content is then contributed to the HathiTrust Digital Library. The two topics, bees & insect pollinators and Puerto Rico, met a number […]
New From Allen Institute For Artificial Intelligence (Ai2): Understanding Usage and Engagement in AI-Powered Scientific Research Tools: The Asta Interaction Dataset (preprint)
The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Understanding Usage and Engagement in AI-Powered Scientific Research Tools: The Asta Interaction Dataset Authors Dany Haddad, Dan Bareket, Joseph Chee Chang, Jay DeYoung, Jena D. Hwang, Uri Katz, et al. Source via arXiv Abstract AI-powered scientific research tools are rapidly being integrated into research workflows, […]
