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Wednesday, March 13
Top o’ the Review
Australia’s Chief Scientist Takes On the Journal Publishers Gatekeeping Knowledge
(The Guardian)
Biden’s Lean Science Budget Could Mean Tough Choices for Agencies
(Science) See also: Congress Is Using More Science, but the Two Parties Rarely Cite the Same Studies
(Science)
Insights from the 2024 ARL President’s Institute, “Embracing Sustainability—Libraries Leading the Way”
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Statement from IMLS on the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget
(IMLS: US Institute for Museum and Library Services) See “Advocacy & Public Policy” section below for statements from other agencies
The State of US Science and Engineering 2024
(National Science Board, NSF: US National Science Foundation)
2024 EDUCAUSE Horizon Action Plan: Unified Data Models
(EDUCAUSE)
ARL Member Libraries
Campus Community Invited to State of the KU Libraries Address to Be Livestreamed (Thursday, March 21)
(KU: The University of Kansas)
Fair Use Rights to Conduct Text and Data Mining and Use Artificial Intelligence Tools Are Essential for UC Research and Teaching
(Office of Scholarly Communication, UC: University of California)
FSU Libraries Announces 2023 Florida Book Awards Winners
(FSU: Florida State University)
How The LINK Elevates Student Learning
(Dartmouth Libraries)
NLM Science, Technology, and Society Lecture—Confronting Race, Gender, & Ability Bias in Tech
(NLM: US National Library of Medicine via YouTube)
Piecing Together the Lives of Formerly Enslaved People
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
The Library Welcomes New Associate Director, Indigenous Initiatives
(University of Waterloo Library)
Upcoming Hybrid Event: Reparative Acts and the Caste of Archival Erasure (Wednesday, March 27)
(The University of Chicago Library)
Wayne McCrory Wins the 2024 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for His Masterful Story about His Journey in the Country of the Tŝilhqot’in People of the Xeni/Tŝilhqot’in
(The University of British Columbia (UBC) Library)
What Brings Gen Z to the Library?
(Purdue University and University of California, San Diego via EdSurge)
Libraries—Other
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Higher Ed
Bring PhD Assessment into the Twenty-First Century
(Nature)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Biden-Harris Administration’s FY 2025 Budget Roundup
- Biden-Harris Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Includes $200.1 Million for NEH
(NEH: US National Endowment for the Humanities) - Statement by Secretary Cardona on the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget
(US Department of Education) - Statement by the NSF Director on the President’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
European Lawmakers Rubber-Stamp EU’s AI Rulebook
(Politico)
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Thursday, March 14
Top o’ the Review
AI Nationalism(s): Global Industrial Policy Approaches to AI
(AI Now)
Consultation on Copyright in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence: CFLA Response
(CFLA: Canadian Federation of Library Associations)
Freedom to Read/Book Challenge Roundup
- American Library Association (ALA) Reports Record Number of Unique Book Titles Challenged In 2023 (ALA)
- International Organizations for Authors, Publishers, Booksellers, and Libraries Call for Key Freedoms to Be Respected (EIBF, IAF, IFLA, IPA, and PEN)
OurResearch Receives $7.5 Million Grant from Arcadia to Establish OpenAlex, a Milestone Development for Open Science
(OurResearch)
State Reproductive Policies Important to Enrollment Decisions
(Gallup)
The Research Data Services Landscape at US and Canadian Higher Education Institutions
(Ithaka S+R)
Also new from Ithaka S+R: An Emerging Framework for Data Services for Indigenous Data
ARL Member Libraries
AU Librarians and Biologists Team Up and Use Big Data to Investigate Open Access Publishing Models
(Auburn University (AU) Libraries)
Avid Collectors Gary and Dawn Prebula Donate More than 75,000 Comics to Penn Libraries
(Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania)
Jennifer Gunter King Named BU’s Associate University Librarian for Special Collections
(Boston University (BU) Libraries)
The Atrium Receives Its 5,000th Thesis/Dissertation Submission
(University of Guelph (UG) Library)
University Libraries Open Publishing Launches Journal of Erie Studies
(Penn State University Libraries)
Where Curiosity Leads: The Duke University Libraries Strategic Plan, 2024–2029
(Duke University Libraries)
Higher Ed
HELIOS Open 2024 Programming and Structures
(HELIOS Open: Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship)
IBM, NASA Team Up to Build Transformer-Based Language Models for Scientific Community
(ExecutiveBiz)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Generative AI’s Privacy Problem
(Axios)
See also: Analyzing Harms from AI-Generated Images and Safeguarding Online Authenticity (RAND)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
DPLA Metadata Working Group Launches New Reparative Description Workshop Series
(DPLA: Digital Public Library of America)
Open Science Policies: What about Equity and Inclusion?
(ZBW Media-Talk)
Scholars & Scholarship
A Review of Transitional Agreements in the UK
(Jisc)
Peer-Replication Model Aims to Address Science’s “Reproducibility Crisis”
(Nature)
What Motivates People to Trust “AI” Systems? (preprint)
(arXiv)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian