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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 […]
AI Roundup: Industry Bodies Recommend Consistency in AI Audiobook Narration Terminology; This is Where the Data to Build AI Comes From; and More
A Research Agenda From the Columbia Convening on AI Openness and Safety (via Mozilla Foundation) Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized (via WIRED) Generative AI Literacy: Twelve Defining Competencies (preprint) (via arXiv) Industry Bodies Recommend Consistency in AI Audiobook Narration Terminology (via The Bookseller) See Also: Official Statement: New Naming Guidelines for AI-Narrated […]
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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Canadian Library Journal Publishing: A Primer; Pioneering Journal eLife Faces Major Test After Loss of Impact Factor; & More Headlines
AI Call ChatGPT From Any Phone with OpenAI’s New 1-800 Voice Service (via Ars Technica) From Family Doc to AI Overseer (via POLITICO) DataCite Jamie Wittenberg DataCite’s New Board President Scholarly Publishing Canadian Library Journal Publishing: A Primer (via Canadian Association of Research Libraries) Pioneering Journal eLife Faces Major Test After Loss of Impact Factor […]
New Resource From the Data Curation Network (DCN): A Primer for Applying and Interpreting Licenses for Research Data and Code
A new resource from the Data Curation Network. A Primer for Applying and Interpreting Licenses for Research Data and Code (2024) Authors Lisa Chinn, Matthew Murray, and Isaac Wink Affiliate Contributors (Peer Reviewers) Talya Cooper Laura Hjerpe Katherine Klosek Sophia Lafferty-Hess Allison Langham-Puttrow Jiebei Luo. DCN Mentors Jennifer Huck, University of Virginia From the Introduction […]
ITAL: The Latest Issue of Information Technology and Libraries (Vol. 43, No. 4; 2024) is Now Online
In This Issue of ITAL (Vol. 43, No. 4; 2024): Editorials Letter from the Editors by Kenneth J. Varnum; Marisha C. Kelly Public Libraries Leading the Way How Kilgore Memorial Library Fostered County-Wide Collaboration through One Shared Calendar by Deb Robertson ITAL & … Beyond the Minimum: New Rule Requires Web Content (I’m Looking at […]
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A New Research Initiative From the Harvard Law School Library: The Institutional Data Initiative (IDI) Launches Today
From the Launch Announcement: Today we’re launching the Institutional Data Initiative (IDI), a research initiative at the Harvard Law School Library. IDI is dedicated to supporting our peers as they steward humanity’s knowledge and seek to provide the broadest access to it in the age of AI, just as they’ve done for so much media […]
New From the Library of Congress: U.S. Elections Web Archive Data Resources Available; Reflections on Collection Development: One Year at CLOCKSS and Looking Ahead to 2025; & More Headlines
AI ChatGPT Now Understands Real-Time Video, Seven Months After OpenAI First Demoed It (via TC) Google Gemini Now Summarizes Entire Folders in Google Drive (via 9to5 Google) Google’s New Project Astra Could Be Generative AI’s Killer App (via Tech Review) & Google Reveals Gemini 2, AI Agents, and a Prototype Personal Assistant (via WIRED) Interview: […]
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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 & […]
New Research Tool: “Know More About AI Policy: Introducing AGORA”
From the Emerging Technology Observatory (ETO (a project of the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University): Today marks the official release of AGORA (AI GOvernance and Regulatory Archive), ETO’s latest tool. Previously in beta, AGORA is a living collection of AI-relevant laws, regulations, standards, and other governance documents from the United States and around the world. […]
