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HuMetricsHSS Develops Values-based Scholarly Measures
What would it look like if measures for assessing scholarship embodied humane values like equity, openness, collegiality, quality, and community? Across disciplines, incentives and reward structures in academia are widely...
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DataBridge Prepares Students for Careers in Data Science
The University Libraries at Virginia Tech is helping students develop skills to succeed in the fast-growing field of data science. DataBridge, an undergraduate research program offered by the libraries, provides...
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Data Curation Network Makes More Research Data Available to All
Research data has the most impact when other researchers and the public can find it and use it to build upon the original researcher’s findings. Researchers struggle with sharing their...
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Demonstrating Impact in the Social Sciences — and Thinking Like a Social Scientist
Guest blog post by Judy Ruttenberg, director, Scholars and Scholarship, ARL “I am more than my H-Index,” is a popular laptop sticker in the open science community, where the index—a...
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Opportunities for Libraries in the AI Ecosystem
Guest post by Cynthia Hudson-Vitale, head, Research Informatics and Publishing, Penn State University Libraries Artificial intelligence (AI) for data discovery and reuse was the topic of a recent conference sponsored...
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Marrakesh Treaty Enters Into Force in the United States
Today, May 8, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) administered Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled enters...
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Scientist Aims to Optimize Science through Data Analysis
Why would a school of information science have a biologist and physicist on its faculty? Jevin D. West, assistant professor at the University of Washington iSchool and co-director of the...
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TOME Brings Scholars’ Books to Wider Audience
What good is a book if people can't read it? Calvin L. Warren, assistant professor at Emory University, studies “concerns of black existence, such as justice, anti-black violence, and black...
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Libraries Open World of Knowledge for People with Visual Disabilities
On April 23, 2018, World Book and Copyright Day, Gulnaz Juzbaeva made history by borrowing a book. “One of the main obstacles I’ve encountered in school and university is the...
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Coalition Partners
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