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Preprint: “Estimating Global Article Processing Charges Paid to Six Publishers For Open Access Between 2019 and 2023”
Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Elsevier, Frontiers, Libraries, News, Open Access, PLOS, Publishing, Scholarly Communications, Springer Nature
|The preprint linked below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Estimating Global Article Processing Charges Paid to Six Publishers For Open Access Between 2019 and 2023 Authors Stefanie Haustein School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa Scholarly Communications Lab Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie (CIRST) Eric Schares Scholarly Communications Lab […]
Milestones: “One-Million Issues in the Texas Digital Newspaper Program”
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Reports
|From the University of North Texas Libraries: The Texas Digital Newspaper Program on The Portal to Texas History has reached a huge milestone of over one-million newspaper issues openly available! These one-million newspaper issues comprise 11,256,533 pages, contributed by 226 partners from across Texas, and representing 210 counties. [Clip] The staff in the Digital Newspaper […]
The article linked below was recently published by Science Advances. Title Anonymization: The Imperfect Science of Using Data While Preserving Privacy Authors Andrea Gadotti Imperial College London University of Oxford Luc Rocher Imperial College London University of Oxford Florimond Houssiau Imperial College London Alan Turing Institute Ana-Maria Creţu Imperial College London Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye Imperial […]
Report: “Academic Authors “Shocked” After Taylor & Francis Sells Access to Their Research to Microsoft AI”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, News, Publishing
|UPDATED POST (July 23, 2024) An Academic Publisher Has Struck an AI Data Deal with Microsoft—Without Their Authors’ Knowledge (The Conversation) —End Update— From The Bookseller: Authors have expressed their shock after the news that academic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge, had sold access to its authors’ research as part of an Artificial […]
From the U.S. Dept. of Justice: FOIA.gov, the government’s central resource for information about the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) now includes additional functionality to help users locate commonly requested law enforcement and related records. The FOIA.gov Search Tool was updated to add a “Law Enforcement records” pre-defined user journey that helps the public more quickly locate […]
Publishing: Association of American Publishers (AAP) Releases May 2024 StatShot Report: Overall Publishing Industry Up 10.9% for Month of May, and Up 5.5% Year-To-Date
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|From AAP: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released its StatShot report for May 2024 reflecting reported revenue for Trade (Consumer Books), Religious Presses, Higher Education Course Materials, PreK-12 Instructional Materials and Professional Publishing. Total revenues across all categories for May 2024 were up 10.9% as compared to May 2023, coming in at $1.1 […]
EveryLibrary Partners with Take Your Child to the Library Day for Awareness Building Training Initiative; FCC Announces Schools and Libraries Cybersecurity Pilot Program Webinar on July 23; & More Headlines
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|AI Chatbot Snapshot: How State, Local Government Websites Use AI Assistants (via StateScoop) American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) ACLS Launches 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award Competition Authors Guild Statement: Alabama Censorship Bill Would Allow Criminal Prosecution of Librarians (via AG) EveryLibrary EveryLibrary Partners with Take Your Child […]
FCC Announces Date For Schools and Libraries Cybersecurity Pilot Program Webinar; Defining the Roles of Research Software (Version 2); & More Headlines
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|AI Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI (via Proof News, WIRED) STM Statement Regarding Unlicensed Use of STM’s Members’ Content in the Training, Development, and Operation of AI Models ||| Infographic (both items via STM) Dictionaries Aussieness: New Australian English Additions to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (via Oxford […]
Publishing: “Open Access Loses Share – Market Sizing 2024 Sneak Peek” & “Microsoft Unveils Software That Allows LLMs to Work with Spreadsheet” & More News Headlines
Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Open Access, Public Libraries, Publishing
|AI Microsoft Unveils Software That Allows LLMs to Work with Spreadsheets (via TechExplore) Opinion: What Teachers Call AI Cheating, Leaders in the Workforce Might Call Progress (via The Hechinger Report) The Limits of GenAI Educators (Harvard Busisiness Review) Ontario London Library Eyes Digitization to Rescue Local History From Deteriorating Microfilm (via CBC) Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Libraries […]
From CMU Libraries: Carnegie Mellon is launching the Open Forum for AI (OFAI), a new initiative that will build capacity and understanding for a human-centered AI to move toward augmented intelligence. Leveraging CMU’s AI expertise, OFAI includes a key group of partners that offer a range of complementary skills necessary for collective action for AI strategy […]