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Journal Article: “Planet of the APCs: A Decade of Progress and Setbacks in Open Access”
The article linked below was published today by the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. Title Planet of the APCs: A Decade of Progress and Setbacks in Open Access Authors Josh Bolick University of Kansas Ada Emmett University of Kansas Marc L Greenberg University of Kansas A. Townsend Peterson University of Kansas Brian Rosenblum University […]
Association of American Publishers (AAP) Releases New Data Overall Publishing Industry Up 8.3% for Month of October, and Up 7.1% Year-To-Date (October 2024 StatShot Report)
From AAP: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released its StatShot report for October 2024 reflecting reported revenue for Trade (Consumer Books), Religious Presses, Higher Education Course Materials, and Professional Publishing. Total revenues across all categories for October 2024 were up 8.3% as compared to October 2023, coming in at $1.4 billion. Year-to-date revenues […]
The Library Publishing Coalition (LPC) Announces Publication of the 2024 Library Publishing Directory
From a Library Publication Coalition (LPC) Post: The Library Publishing Coalition is pleased to announce the publication of the 2024 Library Publishing Directory! This year’s print, PDF, EPUB, online versions and dataset of the Library Publishing Directory highlight the publishing activities of 167 library publishers across the globe. The Directory illustrates the many ways in which libraries are actively transforming […]
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Research Tools: Introducing DiscoverGov: GPO’s (US Government Publishing Office) New Discovery Search Tool
From FDLP.gov/GPO: GPO is pleased to introduce DiscoverGov, our new, web-based search tool. DiscoverGov provides simple, one-stop searching across multiple U.S. Federal Government databases, including GPO’s Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) and GovInfo. Come meet DiscoverGov as we release it for public use in this soft launch. Direct link: https://discover.gpo.gov/ PURL: https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo235314 CGP System Number: 001444646 DiscoverGov features: […]
Sage is Acquiring Scientific and Medical Publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
From a Sage Announcement: Sage, a leading independent academic publisher, has acquired Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., a renowned global media company publishing more than 100 peer-reviewed journals in biotechnology and the life sciences, specialized clinical medicine, public health and policy, and technology and engineering, as well as the leading B2B media brands Genetic Engineering & […]
PLOS Receives $3.3M Grant to Support Open Access Publishing & Business Model Transformation
From PLOS: PLOS has been awarded a $3.3million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, underscoring its commitment to pioneer a shift away from traditional publishing models. The 3-year funding package from the Gates Foundation will support PLOS’ transition towards APC-free publishing by enabling authors, funded by the foundation, to publish with PLOS without […]
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Report: “Publishers are Selling Papers to Train AIs — and Making Millions of Dollars”
From Nature: Since the explosion in popularity of generative artificial intelligence (AI), several scholarly publishers have forged agreements with technology companies looking to use content to train the large language models (LLMs) that underlie their AI tools. A new tracker aims to catalogue what deals are being made — and by whom. “We were seeing announcements of these deals, […]
Authors Alliance: “Developing a Public-Interest Training Commons of Books”
From the Authors Alliance: Authors Alliance is pleased to announce a new project, supported by the Mellon Foundation, to develop an actionable p lan for a public-interest book training commons for artificial intelligence. Northeastern University Library will be supporting this project and helping to coordinate its progress. Access to books will play an essential role […]
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AI Roundup: Document Chat: An Early AI Use Case; Shaping AI’s Impact on Billions of Lives; & More Items
Dow Jones/Factiva Dow Jones Negotiates AI Usage Agreements with Nearly 4,000 News Publishers (via Nieman Lab) Ethics Striking a Balance: Navigating the Ethical Dilemmas of AI in Higher Education (via EDUCAUSE Review) Impact Shaping AI’s Impact on Billions of Lives (via arXiv) UCLA An Upcoming UCLA Humanities Class Will Utilize AI-Generated Textbook and Assignments (via […]
Case Over: Internet Archive Decides Not to Pursue Supreme Court Review in Copyright Lawsuit (Roundup of Statements and Media Reports)
Statement From Internet Archive While we are deeply disappointed with the Second Circuit’s opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the Internet Archive has decided not to pursue Supreme Court review. We will continue to honor the Association of American Publishers (AAP) agreement to remove books from lending at their member publishers’ requests. We thank the many readers, […]
