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From an EFGAMP (European Federation of Video Game Archives, Museums and Preservation) Post: Our new member GOG has produced first time a video showcasing key milestones and efforts to preserve games in 2024. It includes insights from some of the most respected voices in the industry: • Frank Cifaldi (The Video Game History Foundation) • Andrew Borman […]
Journal Article: “On the Readiness of Scientific Data Papers for a Fair and Transparent Use in Machine Learning”
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Journal Articles, News
The article linked below was recently published by Scientific Data. Title On the Readiness of Scientific Data Papers for a Fair and Transparent Use in Machine Learning Authors Joan Giner-Miguelez Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Barcelona Supercomputing Center Abel Gómez Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Jordi Cabot Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology University of […]
DataCite Celebrating the Second Cohort of DataCite Global Access Fund Awardees! DPLA (Digital Public Library of America) Recommitting to DPLA’s Mission in a Year of Transition eLife eLife appoints Timothy Behrens as Editor-in-Chief Library of Congress How to Browse All Digitized Titles in Chronicling America Make Data Count Advancing Data Metrics in 2025! MIT Press […]
From the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas: Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of Saturday Night Live, has donated his archive to the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin. The Lorne Michaels Collection documents Michaels’s career in television from his earliest writing for Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show up […]
Journal Article: “Thema and World Needs: Exploring Bibliodiversity Through Open Access Book Subjects”
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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 […]
A Collective Commitment to Strengthen Open Research Europe and Amplify Its Impact in Scholarly Publishing; Navigating Artificial Intelligence in Postsecondary Education; & More Headlines
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AI AI Agents Are Here. How Much Should We Let Them Do? (via WIRED) AP Signs AI Licensing Deal with Google Navigating Artificial Intelligence in Postsecondary Education: Building Capacity for the Road Ahead (via Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education) Share of Teens Using ChatGPT For Schoolwork Doubled From 2023 to 2024 (via […]
New Resource From ARL: “e-Resource Licensing Explained: An A–Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries”
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From Association of Research Libraries (ARL): ARL is pleased to publish e-Resource Licensing Explained: An A–Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries, a practical tool to empower librarians who license electronic resources (e-resources). The guidebook includes easily digestible legal explanations and pragmatic strategies for preserving rights that users already have under US copyright law, particularly in the face […]
From Billboard: The Pacific Palisades fire destroyed the building housing Belmont Music Publishers, the exclusive publisher of physical works by early 20th century composer Arnold Schoenberg. The fire consumed Belmont’s entire inventory of sales and rental materials, including manuscripts, scores and other printed works, the publisher said. “For a company that focused exclusively on the […]
National Endowment For the Humanities (NEH) Announces $22.6 Million For 219 Humanities Projects Nationwide
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From NEH: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $22.6 million in grants for 219 humanities projects across the country. Among these are grants that will establish protocols for the stewardship and voluntary return of unethically acquired archaeological and ethnographic artifacts to their communities of origin; enrich K–12 educators’ understanding and teaching of […]
From the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries: HADES consists of advertisements from health sciences journals covering the disciplines of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, hospital management, laboratory management, and the allied health sciences from 1923 to 2007. From small quarter page ads to full page drug ads, which often include the pharmaceutical indications, these advertisements offer a window into […]
