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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 […]
Journal Article: “Use of ChatGPT to Explore Gender and Geographic Disparities in Scientific Peer Review”
The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Title Use of ChatGPT to Explore Gender and Geographic Disparities in Scientific Peer Review Authors Paul Sebo University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Source Journal of Medical Internet Research DOI: 10.2196/57667 Abstract Background:In the realm of scientific research, peer review serves as […]
New Data: Louisiana Public Library Usage Continues to Climb
From the Louisiana Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Department of Culture, Recreation, & Tourism: Public libraries in Louisiana recorded more than 10 million visits in 2023, marking double-digit growth over the prior year, newly released figures show, as libraries increased the number of programs offered, and the public used more Wi-Fi. The State Library of […]
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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, […]
“Brain Rot” Named Oxford Word of the Year 2024
From Oxford University Press: Oxford University Press (OUP) has named ‘brain rot’ as the Oxford Word of the Year 2024, following a public vote that saw more than 37,000 people worldwide have their say. ‘Brain rot’ was one of the six contenders shortlisted by OUP’s language experts to reflect some of the moods and conversations that have shaped the past year. Selected […]
Digital Preservation: “Act Now to Stop Millions of Research Papers From Disappearing”
From a Nature Editorial: Millions of research articles are absent from major digital archives. This worrying finding, which Nature reported on earlier this year, was laid bare in a study by Martin Eve, who studies technology and publishing at Birkbeck, University of London. Eve sampled more than seven million articles with unique digital object identifiers (DOIs), a […]
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Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Releases 2023 Salary Data and Statistics in Four New Reports
From the ARL Salary Data Release: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2023, which analyzes salary data for professional staff working in 126 of the 127 ARL member libraries during 2023. Data are reported for 11,118 professional staff from 120 university ARL libraries in Canada and the United States […]
404 Media Reports “HarperCollins Confirms It Has a Deal to Sell Authors’ Work to AI Company”
From a 404 Media Report: A spokesperson for HarperCollins told 404 Media in a statement: HarperCollins has reached an agreement with an artificial intelligence technology company to allow limited use of select nonfiction backlist titles for training AI models to improve model quality and performance. While we believe this deal is attractive, we respect the […]
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Google Scholar Turns 20! 20 Things You Didn’t Know About Scholar
Ed. Note: Google Scholar launched on Wednesday, November 17, 2004. Here’s a post about Google Scholar from November 18, 2024 (ResourceShelf via Wayback Machine) that I co-authored. Additionally, two media reports about the launch from NBC News and Ars Technica. The “About Google Scholar” page from November 20, 2004 can be accessed (via Wayback) here. […]
AI Roundup: A Practical Guide to Gaining Value from LLMs; What AI Models Know About You; Generative AI Has a Massive E-Waste Problem; & More Headlines
Literacy GLAT: The Generative AI Literacy Assessment Test (preprint; via arXiv) LLMs A Practical Guide to Gaining Value from LLMs (MIT Sloan Review) Open AI/ChatGPT Ask Me Anything! How ChatGPT Got Hyped Into Being (preprint, via SocArXiv) OpenAI Research Finds That Even Its Best Models Give Wrong Answers a Wild Proportion of the Time (Futurism) Privacy […]
