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Monday, April 3
Top o’ the Review
Government of Canada Provides Interest-Free Loans for Students, Effective April 1
(Government of Canada)
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) Publishes First Accessibility Plan
(Government of Canada)
PKP Joins £5.8 Million Project for Open-Access Books: Open Book Futures (OBF)
(PKP: Public Knowledge Project)
Political Polarization Is Sorting Colleges into Red and Blue Schools
(Washington Post)
Strategic Visioning: HathiTrust in the Future
(HathiTrust)
ARL Member Libraries
ClinicalTrials.gov Is Modernizing to Serve You Better
(NLM: US National Library of Medicine)
University of Arizona (UA) Launches Archive of Detained Migrants’ Stories
(Arizona Daily Star)
University of Delaware Joins OLH Library Partnership Subsidy (LPS) Model
(OLH: Open Library of Humanities)
Upcoming Virtual Event (Wednesday, April 12): Institute for Information Literacy at Purdue (IILP) Annual Symposium
(Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies)
Values in Practice: Holding Our Vendors Accountable for Accessibility
(University of Washington Libraries)
VCU Libraries Joins Academic Preservation Trust Consortium to Better Support Our Digital Future
(VCU Libraries)
Libraries—Other
Call for Nominations: CFLA Intellectual Freedom Award
(CFLA: Canadian Federation of Library Associations)
Mellon Foundation Grants $595,000 to Support Coko Development
(Coko Foundation)
Higher Ed
New Carnegie Classifications Website Launched
(ACE: American Council on Education)
Taylor & Francis to Pilot First Transparent Peer-Review Model for a Higher Education Research Journal
(Taylor & Francis)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Conversations That Matter: Engaging Library Employees in DEI and Cultural Humility Reflection
(Urban Library Journal)
Scholars & Scholarship
Announcing the 2023 AI Index Report
(HAI: Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
The French Open-Science Monitor 2022: 67% of Publications Open Access; New Indicators for Research Data, Codes, Software
(Ministry of Higher Education and Research, Government of France)
Towards the Future of Responsible Research Assessment: Announcing DORA’s New Three-Year Strategic Plan
(DORA: Declaration on Research Assessment)
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Tuesday, April 4
Top o’ the Review
A Machine with First Amendment Rights
(Lawfare)
Findings from the Most Recent US Library Survey
(Ithaka S+R)
IOI Receives $1M from Mellon Foundation to Scale Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services (COIs)
(IOI: Invest in Open Infrastructure)
Trends in Preprint-, Data-, and Code-Sharing, 2019–2022
(PLOS: Public Library of Science)
Upcoming Webcast (Thursday, April 6): US Repository Network Action Plan Update
(SPARC: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
ARL Member Libraries
A Successful UC Love Data Week Attracts 1,100 Attendees
(UCLA Library)
Check Out Fondren’s 2022 Annual Report
(Rice University Fondren Library)
Clinton Fluker Appointed Emory University Libraries and Museum’s Inaugural Senior Director of Culture, Community, and Partner Engagement
(Emory University Libraries)
Growing Arizona State University (ASU) Library Resources Aim to Demystify Data Science, Improve Accessibility
(The State Press)
Menstrual Equity Pilot Program Launches in Geisel Library
(UC San Diego Library)
Libraries—Other
What Are Library Graduate Students Learning about Disability and Accessibility?: A Syllabus Analysis
(Urban Library Journal)
Higher Ed
Pay Increases for Higher Ed Employees Sharply Improve, but Still Fall Short of Inflation Rate
(CUPA-HR: College and University Professional Association for Human Resources)
Yearly Success and Progress Rates
(National Student Clearinghouse Research Center)
Advocacy & Public Policy
PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel’s Testimony before Congress on Protecting Free Speech on College Campuses
(PEN America)
UN Human Rights Council: 72 Countries Urge Greater Cooperation to Protect Academic Freedom
(Scholars at Risk Network)
Scholars & Scholarship
ORCID Poised to Support Research Institutions in New Era of Public Access and Research Security
(ORCID)
RDA’s 20th Plenary Highlights
(RDA: Research Data Alliance)
UNESCO’s Toolkit Can Help Accelerate the Transition to Global Open Science
(UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
Upcoming Online Event (Thursday & Friday, April 20 & 21): Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books
(COPIM: Community-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs)
Wikipedia Isn’t Yet Ready to Rely on AI for Its Text, but It’s Getting Closer
(The Decoder)
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Wednesday, April 5
Top o’ the Review
Australian Mayor Readies World’s First Defamation Lawsuit over ChatGPT Content
(Reuters)
Statements by IFLA at World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR)
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Toward a 21st-Century National Data Infrastructure: Enhancing Survey Programs by Using Multiple Data Sources
(US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
Note: National Academies to Host Webinar on the Report, Monday, April 24
Upcoming Virtual Event (Wednesday, April 12): Listening Session on NIH Plan to Enhance Public Access to Results of NIH-Supported Research
(NIH: US National Institutes of Health)
US Department of Justice (DOJ) Web Accessibility Regulations Are Imminent
(EDUCAUSE Review)
ARL Member Libraries
“A Century of 16mm” Offers Portal to Indiana’s Past through Film
(Indiana University Bloomington)
Descendants of African American Poet Discover Their Roots in LSU Libraries Special Collections
(LSU: Louisiana State University)
Influential Indigenous Leaders Highlighted in Collaboration with American Indian Resource Center
(The University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library)
McGill Library Launches Missing Voices Website & Lost Voices Podcast
(McGill University Library)
New Cornell Library Acquisitions Advance Academic Distinction, Diverse Scholarship
(Cornell University)
UW–Madison Libraries Announce Generous Gift from Dick Wagner Creating the R. Richard Wagner Pride Archives Fund
(University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries)
Libraries—Other
Evolution of Research Data Management in Academic Libraries: A Review of the Literature
(Information Development)
Higher Ed—Members
Howard University Appoints Stacey Abrams as Inaugural Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics
(Howard University)
Higher Ed—Other
“The Reckoning Is Here”: More Than a Third of Community College Students Have Vanished
(Hechinger Report)
Advocacy & Public Policy
ASAPbio’s Response to the NIH Plan to Enhance Public Access
(ASAPbio)
Canadian Federal Privacy Watchdog Probing OpenAI, ChatGPT following Complaint
(CBC/Radio-Canada)
Scholars & Scholarship
A High-Quality Cloned Journal Has Duped Hundreds of Scholars, and Has No Reason to Stop
(Retraction Watch)
Dark Citations to Federal Resources and Their Contribution to the Public Health Literature
(bioRxiv)
US Repository Network (USRN) Releases Desirable Characteristics for Digital Publication Repositories
(USRN via infoDOCKET)
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Thursday, April 6
Top o’ the Review
ChatGPT Reportedly Made Up Sexual Harassment Allegations against Prominent Law Professor
(Business Insider)
Faculty Compensation Survey (FCS) Reports Third Consecutive Year of Decreasing Wages for Higher Ed Faculty
(AAUP: American Association of University Professors)
Final Governance Work Package (WP4) Report: Governing Scholar-Led Open Access (OA) Book Publishers
(COPIM: Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs)
How and Why Does Official Information Become Misinformation? A Typology of Official Misinformation
(Library & Information Science Research)
2021 ACRL Academic Library Trends and Statistics Survey
(College & Research Libraries News)
Upcoming Community Call (Tuesday, April 11): Linking Canadian Research: The State of PIDs in Canada
(CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
ARL Member Libraries
CU Scholar Repository Receives Notable Certification for Reliability and Trustworthiness
(University of Colorado Boulder University Libraries)
Discover the Library’s Annual Report 2021–2022
(University of Ottawa Library)
Serials Reductions as Part of the Life Cycle
(UC Berkeley Library)
The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection Is Now Available for Research: Providing Pathway for New Scholarship
(Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library via PRNewswire)
Three New Members Join Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Advisory Board
(Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)
Libraries—Other
Recording and Slides for IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Section (ARL) Webinar re: “On Social Justice…”
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Higher Ed—Members
(Gainesville Sun)
Higher Ed—Other
Employers Planning to Hire 9.1% More Interns for Summer 2023 Programs
(NACE: National Association of Colleges and Employers)
Upcoming Webinar (Friday, April 21): Higher Ed Pathways to Immigration: Why It Matters
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
Data & Analytics
Upcoming Webinar (Friday, April 14): Information on SciDataCon and International Data Week
(CODATA: Committee on Data, International Science Council)
Scholars & Scholarship
A Checklist to Publish Collections as Data in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs)
(arXiv)
Exploring Factors Contributing to Plagiarism as Students Enter STEM Higher Education Classrooms
(ISTL: Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship)
In Other News
In GPT Should We Trust?: Advice for Interacting with Generative Language Models
(AI2: Allen Institute for AI via Medium)
Study Sheds Light on the Dark Side of AI
(University of Alberta)
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