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Bills Introduced in Michigan Senate Look to Restore the State’s School Libraries; Nature Publishes Too Few Papers From Women Researchers — That Must Change; & More News Headlines
Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Open Access, Scholarly Communications, School Libraries
|CORE CORE at Open Repositories 2024 (via CORE) Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) IMLS and Council of American Jewish Museums Partner to Address Antisemitism Michigan Bills Introduced in Michigan Senate Look to Restore the State’s School Libraries (via Michigan Public Radio) Oklahoma Metropolitan Library CEO Larry Nash White Announces Resignation in May (via […]
From an EveryLibrary Institute Blog Post: In “Divisive Politics and Threats to Academic Libraries,” the EveryLibrary Institute hopes to encourage academic librarians to proactively redefine their roles, engage in policy advocacy, and acquire the advanced training needed to lead in an environment that is fraught with legislative and ideological challenges. We have analyzed the situation […]
University of Minnesota Libraries Unveils One of the Largest Public Human Rights Archives
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|From the University of Minnesota Libraries: The University of Minnesota now has one of the largest human rights archives at a public university, and it’s already helping researchers, educators, and human rights advocates across the globe. “With everything that’s happening in the world, if we can highlight aspects of the history of human rights, maybe […]
From an Interesting and Informative Crossref Blog Post by Martin Eve: Crossref holds metadata for approximately 150 million scholarly artifacts. These range from peer reviewed journal articles through to scholarly books through to scientific blog posts. In fact, amid such heterogeneity, the only singular factor that unites such items is that they have been assigned […]
“The Cost and Price of Public Access to Research Data: A Synthesis” (New Paper by Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI))
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|The paper linked from below was recently made available by Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) via Zenodo. Title The Cost and Price of Public Access to Research Data: A Synthesis Authors Gail Steinhart Invest in Open Infrastructure Katherine Skinner Invest in Open Infrastructure Source Invest in Open Infrastructure (via Zenodo) DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10729575 Abstract Beginning on […]
CBC Report: “1 Million Books and 4 Months Later, Toronto’s Library Recovers From a Cyberattack”
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|From the CBC: More than four months after a ransomware attack shut down the Toronto Public Library’s computer systems, staff are finally putting a million stranded books back on the shelves. [Clip] The restoration of its downed services — which includes the return of nearly 5,000 employee and public computers — is a relief to library staff […]
The article (preprint) linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Explaining Relationships Among Research Papers Authors Xiangci Li University of North Texas Jessica Ouyang University of North Texas Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2402.13426 Abstract Due to the rapid pace of research publications, keeping up to date with all the latest related papers is very […]
The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Exploring ChatGPT for Next-Generation Information Retrieval: Opportunities and Challenges Authors Yizheng Huang York University Jimmy X. Huang York University Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2402.11203 Abstract The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has highlighted ChatGPT as a pivotal technology in the field of information retrieval […]
The article (preprint) linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Artificial Intelligence for Literature Reviews: Opportunities and Challenges Authors Francisco Francisco Bolaños The Open University Angelo Salatino The Open University Francesco Osborne The Open University University of Milano Enrico Motta The Open University Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2402.08565 Abstract This manuscript presents a comprehensive […]
From The Guardian: Details of Charles Darwin’s vast personal library, from a paper on epileptic guinea pigs to the Elizabeth Gaskell novel he adored, are being published in their entirety for the first time. The project has involved nearly two decades of painstaking, detective-like work to track down the thousands of books, journals, pamphlets and […]