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Monday, January 30
Top o’ the Review
A Watermark for Chatbots Can Expose Text Written by an AI
(MIT Technology Review)
Academic Libraries and Their Legal Obligation for Content Accessibility
(First Monday)
LPC Documentation Month Returns This February
(LPC: Library Publishing Coalition)
NSF’s NCSES Releases Report on Diversity Trends in STEM Workforce and Education
(NCSES: National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, NSF: US National Science Foundation)
SciLake: A Scientific Lake for the Research Ecosystem
(OpenAIRE)
ARL Member Libraries
Boston Public Library Celebrates Black History Month with Annual “Black Is…” Booklist & Special Events
(Boston Public Library)
Hannah Sommers Appointed New Associate Librarian for Researcher and Collections Services
(Library of Congress)
Library Launches Six-Week Digital Scholarship Certificate Program
(UC Riverside Library)
María Estorino Named Vice Provost for University Libraries and University Librarian
(The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Poetry, Mining Hollywood, and Digital Books: Mellon Foundation Grants Will Support Groundbreaking Work at the UC Berkeley Library and Beyond
(UC Berkeley Library)
Upcoming Webinar (Thursday, February 16): The All of Us Researcher Workbench: Access Diverse Data and Tools from the NIH Precision Medicine Initiative
(NLM: US National Library of Medicine)
Libraries—Other
National Archives Publishes Customer Research Agenda
(NARA: National Archives and Records Administration)
The Internet in 2023: Key Issues for Libraries
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Advocacy & Public Policy
The Critical Race Theory Debate
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)
Scholars & Scholarship
Crossref as a Bibliographic Discovery Tool in the Arts and Humanities
(Quantitative Science Studies)
Peer Review in a General Medical Research Journal before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(JAMA Network Open)
Report by the French Committee for Open Science Working Group on Electronic Lab Notebooks
(Committee for Open Science, French Ministry of Higher Education and Research)
Scientific Civility and Academic Performance (preprint)
(bioRxiv)
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Tuesday, January 31
Top o’ the Review
A*CENSUS II: Archives Administrators Survey
(Ithaka S+R)
Annual Report 2022: Highlights from the Data Curation Network
(Data Curation Network)
arXiv Announces New Policy on ChatGPT and Similar Tools
(arXiv)
DataCite Member Survey 2022
(DataCite)
New AI Classifier for Indicating AI-Written Text
(OpenAI)
SPARC Europe Highlights of 2022
(SPARC Europe)
ARL Member Libraries
Iowa Lichtenberger Engineering Library Receives Patent & Trademark Resource Center Designation
(The University of Iowa Libraries)
Library Partners with Artist-in-Residence Tristan Al-Haddad
(Georgia Tech Library)
Open-Access Textbook on the Holocaust Co-edited by Hazleton Sociology Professor
(Penn State University Libraries)
Six Libraries Partner with GPO to Preserve Government Information
(FDLP: Federal Depository Library Program, GPO: US Government Publishing Office)
UK’s Historian, Kentucky’s Keeper of Stories: Terry L. Birdwhistell Passes Away at 72
(University of Kentucky Libraries)
Libraries—Other
Researchers at Participating CRKN Member Institutions Can Now Publish Free Open Access in Select CSP Journals
(CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network and CSP: Canadian Science Publishing)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Envisioning a Federal Student-Level Data Network: Fourth Brief in Series Explores Potential Design Options
(IHEP: Institute for Higher Education Policy)
Privacy Bill Aims to Protect Health Data on Apps and Websites in Washington State
(GeekWire)
Strategies for States and Colleges to Reduce Food Insecurity among Students
(The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, Temple University)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Students of Color and Those from Working Class Backgrounds Struggle to Feel a Sense of Belonging in Elite Universities, Study Says
(Taylor & Francis)
Scholars & Scholarship
A Free Toolkit to Foster Open Access Agreements
(Insights)
eLife’s New Model: Open for Submissions
(eLife)
The “OA Market”—What Is Healthy? Part 1 & Part 2
(OASPA: Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association)
In Other News
W3C Re-launched as a Public-Interest Nonprofit Organization
(W3C: World Wide Web Consortium)
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Wednesday, February 1
Top o’ the Review
Event (Tuesday, February 7): Scanning 3D: Cultural Heritage Preservation, Access, and Revitalization
(CC: Creative Commons)
Introducing ChatGPT Plus
(OpenAI)
More Adults Earning College Degrees, New Federal Data Show
(Lumina Foundation)
Open Science, Closed Doors: The Perils and Potential of Open Science for Research in Practice
(Industrial and Organizational Psychology)
The College Board Revises New AP African American Studies Class after Criticism
(NPR: National Public Radio)
See also: Press release by the College Board
ARL Member Libraries
Library Opens New Web Archive Collection, Features Programs for Black History Month
(Library of Congress)
Read the Beat: Music in Children’s Literature
(Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries)
University Libraries’ Newest Exhibit Highlights What We Find Left behind in Rare Books
(Ohio University Libraries)
UT Libraries Hosts High School Students for BOSS Hands-On STEM Conference
(The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Libraries)
Watch: Archives Alive Talk on Digital Access and Indigenous Histories
(McMaster University Library)
Libraries—Other
Case Study: Psicológica Overlay Journal Workflow
(COAR: Confederation of Open Access Repositories)
DLF Digest: February 2023
(DLF: Digital Library Federation)
ResearchGate and De Gruyter Announce Content Partnership
(ResearchGate and De Gruyter)
Higher Ed
New Vision for Transnational University Collaboration Pioneered under European Degree Label Project
(Una Europa)
Postdocs Need Raises. But Who Will Foot the Bill?
(Science)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Advocacy Forward Look: Opportunities for Libraries, January–July 2023
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Higher Research Productivity = More Pay? Gender Pay-for-Productivity Inequity across Disciplines
(Scientometrics)
Scholars & Scholarship
COVIDScholar: An Automated COVID-19 Research Aggregation and Analysis Platform
(PLOS ONE)
In Other News
Artificial Intelligence Learns to Visualize Extensive Data Sets
(University of Helsinki)
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Thursday, February 2
Top o’ the Review
Annual Grapevine Compilation Shows Initial 6.6% Increase in State Support for Higher Education)
(SHEEO: State Higher Education Executive Officers Association)
Building Campus Strategies for Data Support Services Project Kicks Off
(Ithaka S+R)
Clare Appavoo Reappointed as Executive Director of CRKN
(CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network)
Community-Driven Toolkit for the Development and Delivery of Virtual Reading Rooms (VRRs)
(RLUK: Research Libraries UK)’
Persistent Identifiers – Risks and Trust Related Issues Explored With New Knowledge Exchange Report and Case Studies
(Knowledge Exchange)
SAA Urges Respect and Consideration for Proper Records Management in Government
(SAA: Society of American Archivists)
ARL Member Libraries
An Extraordinary New Acquisition!
(University of Michigan Library)
Announcing the 2021/22 UC Libraries Annual Progress Report: A Year of New Beginnings…
(University of Cincinnati Libraries)
Biomedical Representation: Web Archive Collecting for “All of Us”
(NLM: National Library of Medicine)
UChicago’s Curator of Rare Books Challenges Visitors to Decide in New Choose-Your-Own-Path Exhibition
(University of Chicago)
UD Library, Museums and Press Receives Mellon Grant for Poetry as Activism Project
(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press)
University Libraries Launches Online Bibliography of Western Pa. Fiction, Drama
(Penn State University Libraries)
Libraries—Other
CMU Sustainability Initiative Finds a Permanent Home
(CMU: Carnegie Mellon University)
Exploring the Values of the Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs)
(IOI: Invest in Open Infrastructure)
Higher Ed
New Research: Fall Undergraduate Enrollment Stabilized In 2022
(National Student Clearinghouse Research Center)
STEM Who? The Humanities Mount a Comeback
(Axios)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Is a ‘DARPA For Education’ Finally Happening?
(The Hechinger Report)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Toward Equitable Open Research: Stakeholder Co-Created Recommendations for Research Institutions, Funders and Researchers
(Royal Society Open Science)
Scholars & Scholarship
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