July 18, 2024 by Gary Price
AI Chatbot Snapshot: How State, Local Government Websites Use AI Assistants (via StateScoop) American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) ACLS Launches 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award Competition Authors Guild Statement: Alabama Censorship Bill Would Allow Criminal Prosecution of Librarians (via AG) EveryLibrary EveryLibrary Partners with Take Your Child […]
July 17, 2024 by Gary Price
From the City University of Hong Kong: In a landmark collaboration, the libraries and university presses of City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and The University of Hong Kong (HKU) are launching Open Books Hong Kong (Chinese), a pioneering open access initiative, to foster global knowledge sharing and […]
July 16, 2024 by Gary Price
AI Microsoft Unveils Software That Allows LLMs to Work with Spreadsheets (via TechExplore) Opinion: What Teachers Call AI Cheating, Leaders in the Workforce Might Call Progress (via The Hechinger Report) The Limits of GenAI Educators (Harvard Busisiness Review) Ontario London Library Eyes Digitization to Rescue Local History From Deteriorating Microfilm (via CBC) Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Libraries […]
July 14, 2024 by Gary Price
AI ChatGPT as an Automated Essay Scoring Tool in the Writing Classrooms: How It Compares With Human Scoring (via Education and Information Technologies) Hunting For AI Bots? These Four Words Could Do the Trick (via NBC News) Unlocking Secure, Private AI With Confidential Computing (via Technology Review) Alabama Alabama Library Association Creates Its Own Bill of […]
July 12, 2024 by Gary Price
In This Issue (#107, Summer (2024)) The Use of Preprints in Doctorate Programs: A Citation Analysis Study of Trends in Chemistry and Physics Dissertations by Elizabeth Brown, Kathleen Flynn, Amanda McCormick, Clara Tran Librarian Support in Teaching Open Science Research Practices in Higher Education by Sanja Gidakovic A Survey of Student Employment and Geospatial Services […]
July 10, 2024 by Gary Price
From the World Health Organization (WHO): World Health Organization (WHO) has introduced an online platform called MeDevIS (Medical Devices Information System), the first global open access clearing house for information on medical devices. It is designed to support governments, regulators and users in their decision-making on selection, procurement and use of medical devices for diagnostics, testing […]
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July 6, 2024 by Gary Price
Author links open overlay panel The article linked below was recently published by the Journal of Academic Librarianship. Title University Students’ Knowledge of Potentially Predatory Journals: A Focus Group Analysis Authors H. Rainer SchiraBrandon University Chris HurstBrandon University Source Journal of Academic LibrarianshipJuly 5, 2024 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2024.102926 Abstract In our previous study on potentially predatory […]
July 5, 2024 by Gary Price
From a RoRI (Research on Research Institute) Blog Post: Often assumed to be a self-evident good, OA has been subject to growing criticism for perpetuating global inequities and epistemic injustices. It has been seen as imposing exploitative business and publishing models and as exacerbating exclusionary research evaluation cultures and practices. Stephen Pinfield engages with these issues, […]
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July 5, 2024 by Gary Price
AI What are AI Agents (via Technology Review) American Library Association Resurgent ALA Annual Conference Draws More than 13,000 to San Diego Open Access Upcoming Event/Webinar (July 10, 2024): Announcing the Global Diamond Open Access Alliance (via UNESCO and/or via cOAlition S Legal Full Fifth Circuit to Review Library LGBTQ+, Sex Ed Books Case (via […]
July 4, 2024 by Gary Price
AI ChatGPT Adoption and Its Influence on Faculty Well-Being: An Empirical Research in Higher Education (via Education and Information Technologies) Publishing Open Access: De Gruyter to Make 37 More Journals Freely Available via Subscribe to Open Model in 2025 Rhode Island Rhode Island’s Newest Restaurant is Inside the Providence Public Library (via Rhode Island Monthly) […]