Open Access Archives
Journal Article: “Do Academic Libraries Contribute to Students’ and Communities’ Wellbeing?: A Scoping Review”
The article linked below was recently published by Healthcare. Title Do Academic Libraries Contribute to Students’ and Communities’ Wellbeing?: A Scoping Review Authors Shivani Suresh Western Sydney University David Lim Western Sydney University University of Technology Sydney Kanchana Ekanayake University of Sydney Amit Arora Western Sydney University The Children’s Hospital at Westmead Clinical School, Faculty […]
Project Summary: Outcomes of the U.S. Repository Network Discovery (USRN) Discovery Pilot
From a USRN E-Mail: The U.S. Repository Network (USRN), a joint initiative of SPARC and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), just wrapped up its 12-month Discovery Pilot Project to evaluate and improve repository practices at 23 public and private institutions. The project revealed that 15 of the 23 institutions had OAI-PMH harvesting that […]
Preprint: “Towards Best Practices for Open Datasets for LLM Training”
The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Towards Best Practices for Open Datasets for LLM Training Authors Stefan Baack, Stella Biderman, Kasia Odrozek, et al. Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2501.08365 Abstract Many AI companies are training their large language models (LLMs) on data without the permission of the copyright owners. The permissibility of doing […]
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Journal Article: “Thema and World Needs: Exploring Bibliodiversity Through Open Access Book Subjects”
The article linked below was recently published by Insights. Title Thema and World Needs: Exploring Bibliodiversity Through Open Access Book Subjects Authors Ronald Snijder OAPEN Foundation Source Insights Volume 38 (2025) DOI: 10.1629/uksg.679 Abstract Bibliodiversity is mostly studied based on publication languages or the imbalance of the means of knowledge production and dissemination. This article […]
GPO Sees Surge in Use of GovInfo to Access Government Information; Criteria for Bibliographic Databases in a Well-Functioning Scholarly Communication and Research Assessment Ecosystem; & More Headlines
Audiobooks Digital Audiobooks Lead Growth in Library Circulation For the Second Year (via Audio Publishers Association) Books Print Book Sales Saw a Small Sales Increase in 2024 (via PW) California “Palisades Branch of LA Public Library Burns Down. What Was Lost in the Fire?” (via Here and Now) Council on Library and Information Resource (CLIR) […]
Center For Research Libraries (CRL) Releases New Mission & Vision Statement; “AI Mistakes are Very Different Than Human Mistakes” & More Headlines
AI AI Mistakes are Very Different Than Human Mistakes (via IEEE Spectrum) Authorship Attribution in the Era of LLMs: Problems, Methodologies, and Challenges (preprint; via arXiv) Center For Research Libraries (CRL) CRL Releases New Mission & Vision Statement Open Access Diamond Open Access: Advancing Knowledge as a Public Good (via UNESCO) Exploring the Business Models […]
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Journal Article: “Open Science at the University of Toronto: Exploration of Researcher, Staff and Librarian Perspectives”
The article linked below was recently published by Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research. Title Open Science at the University of Toronto: Exploration of Researcher, Staff and Librarian Perspectives Authors Madelin Burt-D’Agnillo University of Toronto Mindy Thuna University of Toronto Source Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice […]
Research Paper (preprint): “Agent Laboratory: Using LLM Agents as Research Assistants”
The article (preprint) linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Agent Laboratory: Using LLM Agents as Research Assistants Author Samuel Schmidgall AMD Johns Hopkins University Yusheng Su AMD Ze Wang AMD Ximeng Sun AMD Jialian Wu AMD Xiaodong Yu AMD Jiang Liu AMD Zicheng Liu AMD Emad Barsoum AMD Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2501.04227 […]
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AI: The Publisher of the Journal “Nature” is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Work; New Data: Demographics of the Canadian Publishing Industry, 2015-2023; & More Headlines
AI AI and the Struggle for Control Over Research (via Inside Higher Ed) Meta Knew It Used Pirated Books to Train AI, Authors Say (via Reuters) The Publisher of the Journal “Nature” is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Work (via Futurism) Authors Alliance Artificial Intelligence, Authorship, […]
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 […]
