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Monday, February 12
Top o’ the Review
Higher Education Leaders Convene to Explore Modernizing Hiring, Review, Promotion, and Tenure to Explicitly Reward Open Scholarship
(HELIOS Open: Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship)
Measuring What Matters: Investigating What New Types of Assessments Reveal about Students’ Online Source Evaluations
(Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review)
NIST Releases Version 2.0 of Research Data Framework (RDaF)
(NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology, US Department of Commerce)
Trevor Owens Named as AIP’s First Chief Research Officer
(AIP: American Institute of Physics)
2023 in Review: List of New Developments in Research Assessment
(DORA: Declaration on Research Assessment)
WARC-GPT: An Open-Source Tool for Exploring Web Archives Using AI
(Library Innovation Lab, Harvard University)
ARL Member Libraries
ASU Archivists Hoping to Learn More about Early African American Students
(ASU: Arizona State University)
Heard Libraries’ Digital Lab, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) Collaborate on Update to “Play Nicely” Program Designed to Address Challenging Behaviors in Young Children
(Vanderbilt University Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries)
Teaching at BC Libraries Snapshot, Fall 2023
(Boston College (BC) Libraries)
The MIT Press Launches Second Year of shift+Open to Publish More Open Access Journals
(MIT Press)
Tracing Race Project Receives Second Round of Funding
(Iowa State University Library)
Unlocking Second Chances: Discovering the Power of Pardons at Charles Library
(Temple University Libraries)
What’s in a Digital Archive? An Entire Petabyte of Knowledge Preserved at UGA Libraries
(University of Georgia Libraries)
Higher Ed—Members
UNCF Report Creates Blueprint to Activate HBCU Leadership in Climate Change and Sustainability
(Atlanta University Center via UNCF: United Negro College Fund)
Higher Ed—Other
From Awareness to Action: Addressing Basic Needs Insecurity on Campus
(Ithaka S+R)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Scholars & Scholarship
Additional Experiments Required: A Scoping Review of Recent Evidence on Key Aspects of Open Peer Review
(Research Evaluation)
PLOS and Plan S Price & Service Transparency Framework 2022
(PLOS: Public Library of Science)
The Emergence of Preprints: Comparing Publishing Behavior in the Global South and the Global North
(Online Information Review)
In Other News
The Complete Library of Charles Darwin Revealed for the First Time
(NUS: National University of Singapore)
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Tuesday, February 13
Top o’ the Review
Generating Medical Errors: GenAI and Erroneous Medical References
(HAI: Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
Also from HAI: Hallucinating Law: Legal Mistakes with Large Language Models Are Pervasive
How Universities Can Restore Free Speech and Constructive Conversations
(Boston Globe)
OpenAI Gets Some of Sarah Silverman’s Lawsuit Cut in Mixed Ruling
(Bloomberg Law)
OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Memory
(WIRED)
2024 EDUCAUSE AI Landscape Study
(EDUCAUSE)
2024 LPC Board Election: Candidate Bios and Statements
(LPC: Library Publishing Coalition)
2023 HathiTrust User Support Annual Report
(HathiTrust)
ARL Member Libraries
Digitization Spotlight: Canadian Corporate Annual Reports
(University of Alberta Library)
Getting to Know University Librarian Lorelei Tanji
(University of California, Irvine (UCI) Libraries)
Library Storage Annex Update from UT Knoxville Campus Advisory Board Meeting
(University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville Libraries)
Read, Hot, and Digitized: Italian Poetry, Translated and Sonorized
(University of Texas Libraries)
Libraries—Other
Technology Education in Academic Libraries: An Analysis of Library Workshops (abstract and summary only)
(JAL: Journal of Academic Librarianship)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Enhancing Public Access to the Results of Research Supported by the Department of Health and Human Services: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief
(NAP: National Academies Press)
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Releases Updated Critical and Emerging Technologies List
(OSTP: Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Gender Results Framework: A New Data Table on Workplace Harassment
(Statistics Canada)
Scholars & Scholarship
Checklist and Guidance for Transitional Agreement (TA) Publishers
(Jisc)
INFORMATE: When Are the Data?
(Upstream)
Re-classifying Knowledge: Moving from BIC to Thema
(OAPEN Blog)
In Other News
AI and Cyber Security: What You Need to Know
(NCSC: UK National Cyber Security Centre)
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Wednesday, February 14
Top o’ the Review
Artificial Intelligence for Literature Reviews: Opportunities and Challenges (preprint)
(arXiv)
Between the Stacks: How the Bodleian Libraries Are Embracing Photo Custodianship
(British Journal of Photography)
Discovering Datasets in Unstructured Corpora: Discovering Use and Identifying New Opportunities
(HDSR: Harvard Data Science Review)
OSTP Issues Updated Guidance to Support a Secure and Fair Research Ecosystem
(OSTP: Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House)
Sensus Impact: A New Industry Initiative to Revolutionize Research Reporting
(Silverchair and Oxford University Press)
We Want YOU at IDEAL 2024: Scholarship Deadline Approaching
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
ARL Member Libraries
Celebrating Freedom to Read Week: February 18–24, 2024
(Western Libraries)
Home Improvement with Leon De Valinger
(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press)
KU Libraries Host Journals in Open-Access Space, Making Scholarship Available Worldwide
(University of Kansas (KU) Libraries)
New Book Arts Studio Opens at Hayden Library
(Arizona State University (ASU) Library)
Obama Presidency Oral History Project Documents Presidency through Voices of Administration, Activists, and Everyday People
(Columbia University Libraries via Columbia Spectator)
Open Source Project Office Established with Sloan Foundation Grant
(Syracuse University)
Higher Ed
AI Is Disrupting Professions That Require College Degrees. How Should Higher Ed Respond?
(EdSurge Podcast)
Advocacy & Public Policy
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Warns That “Societal Misalignments” Could Make Artificial Intelligence Dangerous
(AP: Associated Press)
See also: Video of Sam Altman’s comments at World Governments Summit (Reuters via YouTube)
States Are Introducing 50 AI-Related Bills per Week
(Axios)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Online Images May Be Turning Back the Clock on Gender Bias, Research Finds
(Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley)
US Department of Education Releases 2023 Update to Equity Action Plan, Outlines New Commitments to Advance Equity
(US Department of Education)
Scholars & Scholarship
A Scoping Review of ChatGPT’s Role in Healthcare Education and Research
(Nurse Education Today)
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Thursday, February 15
Top o’ the Review
ARL and EDUCAUSE Submit Comments on Proposed Net Neutrality Rule
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries and EDUCAUSE via EDUCAUSE Review)
ARL/CARL Marrakesh Treaty Task Force Issues Final Report, Recommendations to Increase Global Lending of Accessible Materials
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries and CARL: Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
French Ministry of Higher Education and Research Partners with OpenAlex to Develop a Fully Open Bibliographic Tool
(French Ministry of Higher Education and Research)
New CFLA-FCAB Strategic Plan for 2023–2027
(CFLA-FCAB: Canadian Federation of Library Associations)
Public Trust in Science Remains High, but Engagement is Low
(NSB: National Science Board, NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Useful Stats: Trends in Graduate Students and Postdocs by Field of Study
(SSTI: State Science & Technology Institute)
Vendor Offering Citations for Purchase Is Latest Bad Actor in Scholarly Publishing
(Science)
ARL Member Libraries
Behind the Scenes at the Libraries: Interlibrary Loan and Beyond
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
By the Power Vested in Me: Marriage Equality, Kentucky, and the US Supreme Court
(The Wisdom Project Podcast, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries)
George Washington University (GW) Libraries & Academic Innovation Office Forms AI Advisory Council
(GW Hatchet)
UA Libraries’ Digital Archival Project Empowers Voices among US-Mexico Border Communities
(University of Arizona (UA) Libraries via Insight into Diversity)
UW’s Tateuchi East Asian Library Celebrates Recent Renovations, Reopening
(UW: University of Washington)
Higher Ed
State Universities Admit More Out-of-State Students for the Tuition Bump
(Stateline)
Advocacy & Public Policy
AAUP Receives Mellon Grant for Academic Freedom Center
(AAUP: American Association of University Professors)
No Longer Stranded? How New US Department of Education Rule Creates Opportunities for Students and Institutions
(Ithaka S+R)
The Discriminatory Impact of Book Bans and Educational Gag Orders on LGBTQ+ Expression
(PEN America)
Scholars & Scholarship
NIST Researchers Suggest Historical Precedent for Ethical AI Research
(NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology, US Department of Commerce)
ORCID Announces Third Round of Global Participation Fund Recipients
(ORCID)
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