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Monday, May 15
Top o’ the Review
Announcing COPIM’s “Good, Better, Best” Practices Guide for the Small Monograph Press
(COPIM: Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs)
ChatGPT CEO Heads to Congress as Lawmakers Face AI Explosion
(The Hill)
Note: A live video stream of the hearing along with prepared statements will be available on the US Senate Judiciary Committee website
Crafting Your Institution’s Strategy for Instructional Support: Announcing a New Program
(Ithaka S+R)
Principles of Diamond Open-Access Publishing: A Draft Proposal
(cOAlition S)
Upcoming Hybrid Event (Wednesday–Thursday, May 17–18): Advancing Anti-racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEMM Organizations: Report Release Workshop
(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
ARL Member Libraries
Changing Views on Motherhood
(University of Ottawa Library)
CRL and East View Release Two New In-Copyright Open-Access Collections
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries)
Library Unveils Revamped Digital Repository
(Georgia Tech Library)
The MIT Press to Launch Open-Access Journal “Imaging Neuroscience”
(The MIT Press)
Third Edition of Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Still-Image Digitization Guidelines Finalized
(Library of Congress)
Upcoming Virtual Event (Tuesday, May 23): Ukraine One Year Later: Librarians and Libraries Revisited
(UC Berkeley Library)
Higher Ed
The College-Going Gap between Black and White Americans Was Always Bad. It’s Getting Worse
(Hechinger Report)
Advocacy & Public Policy
President Biden Announces Intent to Nominate Dr. Monica Bertagnolli as Director of the National Institutes of Health
(The White House)
Note: Statements about nomination from American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association of American Universities, and Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Results from the COGR Survey on the Cost of Complying with the New US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Data Sharing and Management (DMS) Policy
(COGR: An Association of Research Institutions)
Scholars & Scholarship
AI-Detectors Biased against Non-native English Writers
(HAI: Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
Metadata Connects the Global Community—Summary of Our Community Update 2023
(Crossref)
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Tuesday, May 16
Top o’ the Review
AAUP President Irene Mulvey on DeSantis’s Signing of Anti-DEI Bill
(AAUP: American Association of University Professors)
Association Joins in Supporting Ukrainian Publishers
(AUPresses: Association of University Presses)
Coastal Cities Priced Out Low-Wage Workers. Now College Graduates Are Leaving, Too.
(New York Times)
From ChatGPT Bans to Task Forces, Universities Are Rethinking Their Approach to Academic Misconduct
(UA: University Affairs)
IIIF Consortium Announces New Extensions for Working with Digitized Maps
(IIIF: International Image Interoperability Framework)
Impact of War on Editors of Science Journals from Ukraine: Results of a Survey
(ESE: European Science Editing)
ARL Member Libraries
Health Sciences Library Building Closing for Library Renovation
(University of Missouri Libraries)
Jeanine A. Irons Joins as Director of Institutional Culture and Employee Experience
(Syracuse University Libraries)
2023 CRL Annual Council of Voting Members Meeting in Review
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries)
University Archives Part of Multidisciplinary Team Awarded Battelle Engineering, Technology, and Human Affairs (BETHA) Grant to Explore Architecture of Underground Railroad
(The Ohio State University Libraries)
Video: What to Wear? UW Libraries Explores Age-Old Question
(University of Washington Libraries)
Libraries—Other
A Pilot Study to Locate Historic Scientific Data in a University Archive
(ISTL: Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship)
Five Tips for Rapid Metadata Assessment
(DLF: Digital Library Federation)d
Advocacy & Public Policy
Upcoming Webinar (Tuesday, June 6): Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information: What’s New in Draft SP 800-171, Revision 3
(NIST: US National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Scholars & Scholarship
Audit AI Search Tools Now, Before They Skew Research
(Nature)
Books in a Bubble: Assessing the OAPEN Library Collection
(JLIS.it: Italian Journal of Library, Archives, and Information Science)
Generative AI: Implications and Applications for Education (preprint)
(arXiv)
Reviewer-Assignment Problem: A Scoping Review (preprint)
(arXiv)
Videos: Keynotes, Presentations, and Talks from Force2023 Conference
(Force11 YouTube channel)
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Wednesday, May 17
Top o’ the Review
Collective Web-Based Art Preservation and Access at Scale
(Internet Archive)
G7 Science and Technology Ministers Commit to Open Science
(Ministry of Higher Education and Research, Government of France)
OpenAI Stumps in Washington
(POLITICO)
Note: A keyword-searchable video of the hearing is available via C-SPAN. The prepared testimony of all witnessescan be accessed via the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
PEN America, Penguin Random House File Lawsuit against Florida School District over Unconstitutional Book Bans
(infoDOCKET)
Practical Guide on Open Science Is Available
(OpenAccess.nl)
Teaching Open and Reproducible Scholarship: A Critical Review of the Evidence Base for Current Pedagogical Methods and Their Outcomes
(Royal Society Open Science)
ARL Member Libraries
Celebrating UC San Diego’s Mass Contributions to HathiTrust
(UC San Diego Library)
Iowa State University Digital Press Wins 2023 Publishing Practice Award
(Iowa State University via LPC: Library Publishing Coalition)
OU Researchers Win Prestigious US National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant to Develop Indigenous Media Portal
(The University of Oklahoma Libraries)
Video: Event Rebroadcast: In Conversation with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden
(Library of Congress via The Pew Charitable Trusts YouTube channel)
Libraries—Other
Opening the Future at Central European University (CEU) Press: An Update on Progress
(Opening the Future)
Higher Ed
Class of 2023 Graduates Can Expect to Work In Person or Hybrid
(NACE: National Association of Colleges and Employers)
New German Research Foundation (DFG)–Funded Research Unit CORE Investigates Students’ Critical Use of Online Information
(Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
Upcoming Virtual Event (Monday, June 12): White House Listening Session on Open Science Possibilities for Training and Capacity Building: Perspectives from the Early-Career Researcher–Supporting Community
(The White House)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Artificial Intelligence: Key Practices to Help Ensure Accountability in Federal Use
(GAO: US Government Accountability Office)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
APLU Releases Powered by Publics Equity Roundtable Guide
(APLU: Association of Public and Land-grant Universities)
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace
(Pew Research Center)
New Tool Launches: “Undocumented Student Communities of Practice” Network and Directory
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
Scholars & Scholarship
The Politics of Rights Retention
(Publications)
In Other News
AI Threatens Humanity’s Future, 61% of Americans Say: Reuters/Ipsos Poll
(Reuters)
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Thursday, May 18
Top o’ the Review
More than 150 Organizations Urge Congress to Pass the College Transparency Act
(IHEP: Institute for Higher Education Policy)
PrivateGPT Is a Local Chatbot for Your Private Files
(The Decoder)
US Supreme Court Decisions Today:
Supreme Court Avoids Ruling on Law Shielding Internet Companies from Being Sued for What Users Post
(AP: Associated Press)
Note: Full text of opinion available from Supreme Court
Supreme Court Rules against Warhol Foundation in Copyright Fight over Prince Images
(NBC: National Broadcasting Company)
Note: Full text of opinion available from Supreme Court
Supreme Court Shields Twitter from Liability for Terror-Related Content and Leaves Section 230 Untouched
(CNN: Cable News Network)
Note: Full text of opinion available from Supreme Court
Video: Sustainability–A Call to Action for the Library Community
(OCLC YouTube channel)
ARL Member Libraries
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 18, 2023):
Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day
(Duke University Libraries)
If Your Digital Content Isn’t Accessible, You Could Be Leaving Behind Up to a Billion Users
(The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Libraries)
LC Connecting Communities Digital Initiative Announces Next Round of Award Opportunities for Libraries, Archives, Museums, Higher Education, and Artists/Scholars in Residence
(LC: Library of Congress)
To Travel or Not to Travel? UBC Library Asks the Question
(The University of British Columbia Library)
UC Berkeley University Librarian Jeff MacKie-Mason Announces Retirement Plans
(UC Berkeley Library)
UMD Libraries Extends Agreement with Elsevier ScienceDirect
(University of Maryland Libraries)
Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois May Receive a New Name for Its New Mission
(Illinois Public Media)
Libraries—Other
Shogan Assumes Office as 11th Archivist of the United States
(NARA: US National Archives and Records Administration)
Higher Ed—Members
Changed by Our Journey: Engaging Students through Interpersonal Acknowledgment
(Penn State via EDUCAUSE Review)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Knowledge & Cultural Institutions Defend Net Neutrality in EU
(CC: Creative Commons)
Montana Bans TikTok for All Residents
(POLITICO)
Scholars & Scholarship
How to Organize Engaging Online Conferences and Escape the Zoom Rectangle
(CHI EA ’23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems via ACM Digital Library)
In Other News
Wikimedia Foundation Announces Latest Transparency Report
(Diff, Wikimedia Foundation)
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