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ARL Releases Two New Reports: “Making Research Data Publicly Accessible: Estimates of Institutional & Researcher Expense” & “Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative: Research Methodology 2022–2023 Surveys and Interviews”
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|From the Association of Research Libraries (ARL): In 2021 the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and six academic institutions involved in the Data Curation Network (DCN) were awarded a US National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER grant to conduct research, develop models, and collect costing information for public access to research data across from funded researchers […]
New York: Previewing the Rochester Public Library’s New Archive of Black History & Culture; AI Perceptions at the University of Baltimore; & More Headlines
Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Publishing
|AI White Paper: AI Perceptions at the University of Baltimore ||| Blog Post about the Paper From Ithaka S+R Kentucky Video: Louisville’s Western Library Holds More Than a Century of History (via WAVE) New York Previewing the Rochester Public Library’s New Archive of Black History & Culture (via WXXI) Pennsylvania Philadelphia: “Mayor Parker’s Social Media […]
Research Tools: UMD-LinkUp Announce World’s First AI-Powered Job Mapping Tool to Track the Creation of AI Jobs
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|From the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland UMD-LinkUp, a collaboration between the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, LinkUp Job Market Data, and Outrigger Group, introduced the world’s first tool for mapping the creation of jobs requiring artificial intelligence skills: UMD-LinkUp AI Maps. AI Maps leverages LinkUp’s […]
Elton John and Bernie Taupin to Receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
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|Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Library of Congress Release : Elton John and Bernie Taupin, one of the great songwriting duos of all time, will be the 2024 recipients of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today. The prize is named for another legendary songwriting […]
From Science: For two decades, advocates of open access in scientific publishing have offered a fundamental justification: Making papers immediately free for anyone to read would speed the dissemination of findings and accelerate research progress. Now, after years of little conclusive evidence to support these assertions, researchers report that open-access papers have a greater reach than paywalled ones […]
Digital Collections: University of Pennsylvania Libraries Will Provide Comprehensive Access to American Institute of Indian Studies Image Collection, Initial Batch of Images Now Available Online
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|From Penn Libraries: The University of Pennsylvania Libraries has launched a project to make the full American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Image Collection available and discoverable online. The collection documents a range of Indian art through black and white photography, with an emphasis on premodern temple architecture and sculpture. An initial batch of 2,300 images—featuring […]
The article (preprint) linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title AI Hallucinations: A Misnomer Worth Clarifying Authors Negar Maleki University of South Florida Balaji Padmanabhan University of South Maryland Kaushik Dutta University of South Florida Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2401.06796 Abstract As large language models continue to advance in Artificial Intelligence (AI), text generation […]
Report: “Science’s Fake-Paper Problem: High-Profile Effort Will Tackle Paper Mills”
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|From Nature: A high-profile group of funders, academic publishers and research organizations has launched an effort to tackle one of the thorniest problems in scientific integrity: paper mills, businesses that churn out fake or poor-quality journal papers and sell authorships. In a statement released on 19 January, the group outlines how it will address the problem through measures […]
Journal Article: “Quality Assessment of Research Comparisons in the Open Research Knowledge Graph: A Case Study”
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|The article linked below was published online today by JLIS.it: Italian Journal of Library, Archives and Information Science. Title Quality Assessment of Research Comparisons in the Open Research Knowledge Graph: A Case Study Authors Jennifer D’Souza TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology Julia Evans TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology Lars […]
From NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology): The complex formulas in physics, math and engineering papers might be intimidatingly difficult reading matter for some, but there are many people who have trouble merely seeing them in the first place. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a tool that makes these […]