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From the Knight Foundation: Book challenges and restrictions in U.S. public schools have increased dramatically since 2021. Yet research on public awareness, attitudes and engagement in these activities is limited. In an effort to fill this critical knowledge gap in the national dialogue, Knight Foundation partnered with Langer Research Associates to survey a random national sample […]
The article linked below was recently publishing by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Title ChatGPT as Research Scientist: Probing GPT’s capabilities as a Research Librarian, Research Ethicist, Data Generator, and Data Predictor Authors Steven A. Lehr Cangrade Aylin Caliskan University of Washington Suneragiri Liyanage Harvard University Mahzarin R. Banajii Harvard University Source Proceedings of the […]
From Iowa Public Radio: Last year, an Iowa law that required schools to remove books that contain a depiction of a ‘sex act’ was put on pause by a temporary injunction, but an appeals court decision has cleared the way for the law to go into effect. A decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals […]
Conference Paper: “Curation is Communal: Transparency, Trust, and (In)visible Labour”
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|The paper linked below was presented at the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC24) and recently published in the International Journal of Digital Curation(IJDC). Title Curation is Communal: Transparency, Trust, and (In)visible Labour Authors Halle Burns Princeton University Sandi Caldrone University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Mikala Narlock Data Curation Network / University of Minnesota Source International […]
Linked Data: OCLC Creates Uniform Resource Identifiers For Dewey Decimal Classification Numbers
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|From OCLC: OCLC is unlocking the power of the Dewey Decimal Classification system to build an increasingly robust linked data infrastructure by creating uniform resource identifiers (URIs) for Dewey numbers. As the foundation for “concept” entities, this Dewey linked data provides subject classifications to Works entities in WorldCat Entities, creating a layer of new relationships for knowledge graphs […]
Journal Article: “Academic Publishing is a Business Interest’: Reconciling Faculty Serials Needs and Economic Realities at a Carnegie R2 University”
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|The article linked below was recently published by Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (JLSC). Title “Academic Publishing is a Business Interest”: Reconciling Faculty Serials Needs and Economic Realities at a Carnegie R2 University Authors Rachel E. Scott Illinois State University Anne Shelley Iowa State University Chad E. Buckley Illinois State University Cassie Thayer-Styes Willoughby-Eastlake […]
ARL: New Library Cohort Joins Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative
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|From an Association of Research Libraries Post by Shawna Taylor: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is delighted to announce the new set of institutions joining the Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative, a research project aimed at understanding and addressing the complexities and costs associated with managing and sharing data from funded research. The […]
Roundup: Has Your Paper Been Used To Train an AI Model? Almost Certainly; Three (and a Half) Strategies to Help Academic Libraries Achieve Student Success; & More
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|AI Has Your Paper Been Used To Train an AI Model? Almost Certainly (via Nature) Academic Libraries Three (and a Half) Strategies to Help Academic Libraries Achieve Student Success (via IFLA) Repositories COAR Joins as Signatory of the Barcelona Declaration Yale University Library Digital Collections Objects From 200-Plus Yale University Library Special Collections are New […]
The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Evaluating Research Quality with Large Language Models: An Analysis of ChatGPT’s Effectiveness with Different Settings and Inputs Author Mike Thewall University of Sheffield Source DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2408.06752 Abstract Evaluating the quality of academic journal articles is a time consuming but critical task for national research evaluation […]
From an Upstream Article by Adam Buttrick (California Digital Library): Our community and tools rely on high-quality DOI metadata for building connections and obtaining efficiencies. However, the current model – where improvements to this metadata are limited to its creators or done within service-level silos – perpetuates a system of large-scale gaps, inefficiency, and disconnection. […]