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Monday, February 5
Top o’ the Review
American Library Association Opposes Proposed Georgia Legislation
(ALA: American Library Association)
Biden-Harris Administration Marks the Anniversary of OSTP’s Year of Open Science
(The White House)
Generative AI for Education (GAIED): Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges
(arXiv)
Library Publishing through the IFLA Global Lens
(IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Section Blog, IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
The Teaching and Learning Workforce in Higher Education, 2024
(EDUCAUSE)
2024 Library Publishing Forum Registration and Updates
(LPC: Library Publishing Coalition)
ARL Member Libraries
A New Library Services Platform Is Coming to Kent State and OhioLINK
(Kent State University Libraries)
Center for Black Digital Research, Library of Congress Forge New Partnership
(Penn State University Libraries and Library of Congress)
New USC Libraries Dean Receives Official Trojan Welcome at Installation Ceremony
(USC: University of Southern California)
The Election Year, Discernment, and BC Libraries
(Boston College (BC) Libraries)
University Libraries Welcome Jay I. Kislak Chair and Curator
(University of Miami Libraries)
Wiley and Vanderbilt University’s Heard Libraries Sign Agreement to Publish More Open-Access Research
(Vanderbilt University Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries)
Libraries—Other
Draft Certified Service Provider (CSP) Criteria for Discovery Systems Available for Public Comment
(ORCID)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Department of Education Moves Forward with Title IX Final Rule
(CUPA-HR: College and University Professional Association for Human Resources)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Institutional Research Data Management Strategies: A Contributive Justice Approach
(IJOL: International Journal of Librarianship)
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: Introducing the eLife Global South Committee for Open Science
(eLife)
SCONUL and Copim: Exploring Practical Problems and Potential Strategies to Fund Equitable OA Book Publishing
(Copim and SCONUL: Society of College, National and University Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
Indiana University Joins Forces with Research Data Alliance (RDA)–US to Advance Open-Science Standards
(Indiana University)
Preparing Publicly Engaged Scholars
(ACLS: American Council of Learned Societies)
In Other News
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Tuesday, February 6
Top o’ the Review
American Library Association Updates Core Values
(ALA: American Library Association)
Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges with Generative AI
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Facilitating Library Support for Student Veterans: The Libraries and Veterans Toolkit
(College & Research Libraries (C&RL) News)
How Does Generative Artificial Intelligence Impact Student Creativity?
(Journal of Creativity)
See also: Blog post about the research by the lead author
(University of South Carolina)
Upcoming Virtual Event: Making Collections Accessible and Diverse: Current Approaches to Audience Engagement—Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries Series (Friday, February 23)
(RLUK: Research Libraries UK)
What Role Should Universities Play in Revitalizing Indigenous Languages?
(UA: University Affairs)
ARL Member Libraries
Tenille Campbell Indigenous Storyteller in Residence
(University of Saskatchewan University Library)
UBC Library Supports First Folios Compared Project
(The University of British Columbia (UBC) Library)
UGA Libraries Seed Grants Support Scholarship in the Humanities
(University of Georgia (UGA) University Libraries)
UofL Librarians Help Researchers Create a Better World through Data
(University of Louisville (UofL) Libraries)
Higher Ed—Members
CU President, Faculty Assembly Discuss Degree Value, Funding, Climate Action
(CU: University of Colorado Boulder)
Higher Ed—Other
Recruiters, Students Have Differing Views of New Grads’ Career Readiness
(NACE: National Association of Colleges and Employers)
Unveiling AI in Academia: Insights from the University of Baltimore’s Study
(Ithaka S+R)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Bill Summary: Roadmap to College Student Success
(ACE: American Council on Education)
How Risky Is ChatGPT? Depends Which Federal Agency You Ask
(FedScoop)
Scholars & Scholarship
C4DISC January Community Call Recording Now Available
(C4DISC: Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications)
Detecting LLM-Assisted Writing in Scientific Communication: Are We There Yet? (preprint)
(arXiv)
Leadership Changes at cOAlition S
(cOAlition S)
Structured Peer Review: Pilot Results from 23 Elsevier Journals (preprint)
(bioRxiv)
In Other News
Hugging Face Launches Open-Source AI Assistant Maker to Rival OpenAI’s Custom GPTs
(VentureBeat)
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Wednesday, February 7
Top o’ the Review
Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, and Reshapes Journalism and the Public Arena
(Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University; Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
Call for SCOSS Expressions of Interest 2024: Open Science Infrastructure and Services Are Invited to Apply for Funding
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
Community-Wide, Cross-Institutional Impact Provided by the Catalyst Fund
(Lyrasis)
Student Privacy in the Datafied Classroom: Facilitating Conversations with Campus Stakeholders (preprint)
(College & Research Libraries (C&RL) News via OSF)
Toward a 21st-Century National Data Infrastructure: Managing Privacy and Confidentiality Risks with Blended Data
(NAP: National Academies Press)
ARL Member Libraries
Rare Book and Manuscript Library Acquires First Edition of Plato’s Works in Greek
(University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2023: IU Libraries Year in Review
(Indiana University Bloomington Libraries)
Libraries—Other
Collection of Papers by Elijah E. Cummings Bequeathed to Morgan State University Library
(Journal of Blacks in Higher Education)
CRKN and the University of Regina Add 200 Issues of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Quarterly to Canadiana Collection
(CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network)
Higher Ed—Members
Can ChatGPT Accelerate Social Science Research?
(Yale Insights, Yale School of Management)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Expanding Federal TRIO Programs Eligibility to Undocumented Students
(Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration)
LIBER Joins European Research and Higher Education Organizations to Call on European Commission Not to Neglect Their Needs in Lawmaking
(LIBER: Association of European Research Libraries)
Top White House Aide to Lead AI Safety Institute
(The Hill)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
In All Languages? How Minority Languages Are Excluded from Scholarly Publishing
(Insights: The UKSG Journal)
Scholars & Scholarship
ISR Roundtable 2023: The Future of Preserving the Integrity of the Scholarly Record (ISR) Together
(Crossref)
LIS Journals’ Lack of Participation in Wikidata Item Creation
(KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies)
Missing Institutions in OpenAlex: Possible Reasons, Implications, and Solutions (abstract only)
(Scientometrics)
New Nonpartisan AI Nonprofit TrueMedia, Led by Oren Etzioni, Is Making a Political Deepfake Detector
(GeekWire)
In Other News
AI Helps Scholars Read Scroll Buried When Vesuvius Erupted in AD79
(The Guardian)
Hello OLMo: A Truly Open LLM
(AI2: Allen Institute for AI via Medium)
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Thursday, February 8
Top o’ the Review
Biden-Harris Administration Announces First-Ever Consortium Dedicated to AI Safety
(US Department of Commerce)
How (and Why) the University of Michigan Built Its Own Closed Generative AI Tools
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Six Dangerous Bills That Would Censor Speech on Campuses across the Country
(PEN America)
Teaching an Old Repository New Tricks: Developing a Human Participant Data Policy
(DCN: Data Curation Network)
Youngsuk “YS” Chi, Chairman of Elsevier and Director of Corporate Affairs for RELX, Elected Chair, AAP Board of Directors
(AAP: Association of American Publishers)
ARL Member Libraries
A Milestone for Deep Blue Data
(University of Michigan Library)
Call for Applications: Southeast Asian Archive Anne Frank Visiting Researcher Award
(University of California, Irvine (UCI) Libraries)
Information Science Scholars Studying Cultural-Record Preservation at Minority-Serving Institutions
(University of North Texas)
New Saul Steinberg, Langston Hughes Materials Added to Library’s Digital Collections
(Yale University Library)
See also: Preserving Democracy, One Record at a Time: US Archivist Colleen Shogan Returns to Yale (Yale University Institution for Social and Policy Studies)
Supporting Open Access Book Publishing at UC Berkeley: Spring 2024 Update
(University of California (UC), Berkeley Library)
“To Sing Very Soon”: 100-Year-Old Book Donated to Andersen Horticultural Library
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
University of Kansas Joins HELIOS Open to Advance Open Scholarship
(The University of Kansas Libraries)
Libraries—Other
Report: Lawsuit Accuses Anna’s Archive of Hacking WorldCat, Stealing 2.2 Terabytes of Data
(infoDOCKET)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Maine Could Have Strongest Data Privacy Law in Nation if Bill Passes
(StateScoop)
Video, Written Statements: US Congressional Hearing: Federal Science Agencies and the Promise of AI in Driving Scientific Discoveries
(Joint Research & Technology and Energy Subcommittee, US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Video: ACRL Presents—Cultural Proficiencies for Racial Equity (CPRE): Engaging the CPRE Framework in Your Racial Equity Efforts
(ACRL: Association of College and Research Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
Biomedical Research and Generative AI: Announcing an International Survey
(Ithaka S+R)
DataCite Annual Member Survey 2023
(DataCite)
Google Scholar is Manipulatable (preprint)
(arXiv)
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Information Industry Analyst
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