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Monday, May 22
Top o’ the Review
AUPresses 2023 Annual Report
(AUPresses: Association of University Presses)
Book Removals May Have Violated Student Civil Rights, US Education Department Says
(Washington Post)
CARL Releases National Advocacy Framework for Open Educational Resources (OER)
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Do Scientific Meetings Matter? Turning Up for Talks Brings Surprise Benefits
(Nature)
How Defaulting on the National Debt Could Affect Higher Education
(ACE: American Council on Education)
LAC Helps Preserve Documentary Heritage across Canada by Funding Projects in Communities
(LAC: Library and Archives Canada)
ARL Member Libraries
BPL Publishes “We Are Pride” 2023 Booklist
(BPL: Boston Public Library)
Our Voices: A Guide to Citing Personal Experience and Interviews in Research
(University of Washington Libraries)
The Problem of Colored Lines: Student Debt and Racial Disparities
(Princeton Library)
University Libraries Open Publishing Launches “The Future of Foster Care”
(Penn State)
Higher Ed
EDUCAUSE and WCET QuickPoll Results: Current Trends in Microcredential Design and Delivery
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Advocacy & Public Policy
President Biden Announces Federal Communications Commission Nominees
(The White House)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Examining the Racial and Ethnic Diversity of Adults and Children
(US Census Bureau)
See also: Valuable New Datasets on Race and Ethnicity from the US Census Bureau
Scholars & Scholarship
Gold Open-Access Output and Expenditures in the United States in the Past Decade (preprint)
(STI 2023: 27th International Conference on Science, Technology, and Innovation Indicators)
In Other News
EU Hits Meta with Record €1.2B Privacy Fine
(POLITICO)
New York City’s Public Schools Reverse Their Ban on ChatGPT—Admitting It Had Been “Knee-Jerk Fear”
(Business Insider)
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Tuesday, May 23
Top o’ the Review
A Look at CC’s Open Culture Roundtable in Lisbon
(CC: Creative Commons)
CNI’s May Pre-recorded Project Briefing Series Is Live
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
College Is Remade as Tech Majors Surge and Humanities Dwindle
(Washington Post)
Fully Open Access Journals—Size Does Matter
(Delta Think)
New ACE Brief, Search Tool Outline Effective Mentoring Programs and Practices for Graduate Education
(ACE: American Council on Education)
European Union: Transparent Research Communication
Open Science: Stakeholders Welcome European Efforts towards Publicly Owned and Not-for-Profit Scholarly Communication
(cOAlition S)
New Draft EU Council Conclusions Ratified—STM Responds
(STM)
ARL Member Libraries
Advertising Dictionaries
(Indiana University Bloomington Libraries)
Upcoming Hybrid Event (Wednesday, June 7): Centering Community in Museums, Libraries, and Archives
(Emory University Libraries)
Libraries—Other
Check Out “ASERL Insider” for May 2023
(ASERL: Association of Southeastern Research Libraries)
Upcoming Webinar (Wednesday, May 31): Critical Perspectives on Generative Artificial Intelligence
(IATUL: International Association of University Libraries)
Higher Ed—Members
A New Effort Aims to Ensure That the Future of Information Serves the Common Good
(John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Georgetown University)
University of Chicago Joins Global Partnerships to Advance Quantum Computing
(The University of Chicago)
Higher Ed—Other
Webinar Recording: Insights from SCUP’s Spring 2023 Trends in Higher Education Report: Trends That Impact Higher Education Planning
(SCUP: The Society for College and University Planning)
Advocacy & Public Policy
New EPIC Report Sheds Light on Generative AI Harms
(EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
DEI: A Strategic Priority for the AAMC and Academic Medicine
(AAMC: Association of American Medical Colleges)
Scholars & Scholarship
From Declaration to Global Initiative: A Decade of DORA
(DORA: Declaration on Research Assessment)
LinkedIn Use by Academics: An Indicator for Science Policy and Research? (preprint)
(STI 2023: 27th International Conference on Science, Technology, and Innovation Indicators)
Upcoming Webinar Series (Begins Friday, May 26): The WorldFAIR Project: Presenting Project Outputs
(CODATA: Committee on Data, International Science Council)
In Other News
Google to Experiment with Ads That Appear in Its AI Chatbot in Search
(TechCrunch)
New AI Research Lets You Click and Drag Images to Manipulate Them in Seconds
(The Verge)
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Wednesday, May 24
Top o’ the Review
A Majority of Americans Have Heard of ChatGPT, but Few Have Tried It Themselves
(Pew Research Center)
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning
(US Department of Education)
Coalition for Canadian Digital Heritage Publishes Strategic Framework
(CCDH: Coalition for Canadian Digital Heritage)
Funding News
- Mellon Foundation Awards $3.3 Million to ACLS to Continue Its Digital Justice Grant Program
(ACLS: American Council of Learned Societies) - National Archives Awards $6.5 Million in Grants for Historical Records Projects
(NARA: US National Archives and Records Administration via infoDOCKET) - National Endowment for Arts Announces Second Round of Grants for FY 2023
(NEA: US National Endowment for the Arts)
Making AI Generative for Higher Education
(Ithaka S+R)
UKRI Updates Guidance for Open Access Policy
(UKRI: UK Research and Innovation)
ARL Member Libraries
Integrating Preservation into Librarian Workflows
(UC Davis Library via Insights: The UKSG Journal)
Online Legal Reports Collection Surpasses 4,000 Historical and Contemporary Reports
(Library of Congress)
2023 CRL Call for Service
(CRL: Center for Research Libraries)
Libraries—Other
Introducing the Cambridge University Library Research Institute
(University of Cambridge University Library)
Investigating the Uses of AI In Libraries and for Humanities Research
(Jisc)
Higher Ed
(National Student Clearinghouse Research Center)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law
(CRS: US Congressional Research Service)
National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan 2023 Update
(OSTP: Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
(US Department of Education)
Scholars & Scholarship
Upcoming Online Event (Wednesday, May 31): RDA for Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) Community Cross-Fertilization Workshop
(RDA: Research Data Alliance)
Wikipedia and Open Access (preprint)
(arXiv)
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Thursday, May 25
Top o’ the Review
Enter the Dragon: China and Global Academic Publishing
(Learned Publishing)
EPUB 3.3 Becomes a W3C Recommendation
(W3C: World Wide Web Consortium)
Express Interest in Serving on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Libraries & Archives (IDEAL) Conference 2024 Planning Task Force and Working Groups
(ARL: Association For Research Libraries)
For the First Time, State Funding to Public Colleges Exceeds Per-student Funding Levels Seen Prior to the Great Recession
(SHEEO: State Higher Education Executive Officers Association)
Upcoming Event (Wednesday, June 7): CARL Inclusion Perspectives Webinar Series: Sixth Panel Featuring Library Colleagues with Intersectional Identities
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
WHO Releases data.who.int: The New Digital Destination for Open Health Data
(WHO: World Health Organization)
ARL Member Libraries
Dig into History: Search the More Than 140 Years of Yale Daily News Now Online
(Yale University Library)
Diversity in the Stacks: The Open Access Pilot for Latin American Monographs
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
Jordan Sly Elected University of Maryland Senate Chair-Elect
(University of Maryland Libraries)
Let’s Get to Work: Exploring the Intricacies behind Newly Created Roles in Librarianship
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign via Journal of New Librarianship)
Librarian Awarded Grant from National Archives to Make Women’s History Materials More Accessible
(J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah)
South Florida Holocaust Survivors Honored at University Libraries Exhibit
(University of Miami)
Higher Ed—Members
Expanding the Reach: The Collective Impact of HBCUs, PBIs, and Other Universities on Black AI Education
(CSET: Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University)
Higher Ed—Other
Undergraduates Apparently Undeterred by the Pandemic
(Humanities Indicators Project, American Academy of Arts & Sciences)
Advocacy & Public Policy
(The White House)
See also: US Department of Education Launches Anti-Semitism Awareness Campaign
Data & Analytics
(US Census Bureau)
Scholars & Scholarship
Global Open Access Initiative, SCOAP3, Drives Dramatic Increase in Reach and Readership of Taylor & Francis Books
(Taylor & Francis and SCOAP3)
Using AI in Peer Review
(Research Professional News)
Want to Improve Young Scientists’ Mentoring Experience? Train Their Mentors in Cultural Awareness
(Science)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
