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Monday, February 6
Top o’ the Review
BitCurator Forum 2023—Registration Open and Program Now Available
(BitCurator Consortium)
ChatGPT: Five Priorities for Research
(Nature)
Identifying Artificial Intelligence Actors Using Online Data
(OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Licensing Challenges Associated with Text and Data Mining: How Do We Get Our Patrons What They Need?
(Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication)
Marrakesh Monitoring Report—February 2023 Update
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Upcoming Event: Nobel Prize Summit on Countering Misinformation and Building Trust in Science to Be Held May 24–26
(US National Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation)
ARL Member Libraries
First Editions Shine in University Libraries’ “Celebrating 250 Years of African American Literature”
(University of South Carolina Libraries)
Introducing the New EPUB Reader for E-books at the Library of Congress
(Library of Congress)
“The Respect They Deserve”: Law Library Fights Intrinsic Bias by Reclassifying Indigenous Materials
(UC Berkeley School of Law)
$2.5 Million Grant Endows New Curator of Religious Collections at IU Lilly Library
(Indiana University Bloomington)
Yale Library Restructuring Will Unify Special Collections, Increase Access for Researchers and Visitors
(Yale University Library)
Libraries—Other
Sustainability 3.0 in Libraries: A Challenge for Management
(Publications)
Video: Internet Freedom: Information Communication, Accessibility, and Archiving
(Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
Higher Ed
Accelerating Action for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—Report of the 3rd IAU Global Survey on Higher Education and Research for Sustainable Development (HESD)
(IAU: International Association of Universities)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Alberta Government Will Require Annual ‘Free Speech Reporting’ from Postsecondary Schools
(Global News)
See also: Official announcement by the Government of Alberta
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Leveraging Data for Racial Equity in Workforce Opportunity
(IBM Center for The Business of Government)
In Other News
AI Models Spit Out Photos of Real People and Copyrighted Images
(MIT Technology Review)
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Tuesday, February 7
Top o’ the Review
Americans Don’t Understand What Companies Can Do with Their Personal Data—and That’s a Problem
(Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania)
Designing Misinformation Interventions for All: Perspectives from AAPI, Black, Latino, and Native American Community Leaders on Misinformation Educational Efforts
(Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review)
HathiTrust Receives $1 Million Mellon Grant to Enhance Core Operations
(HathiTrust)
Microsoft Announces New Bing and Edge Browser Powered by Upgraded ChatGPT AI
(The Verge)
Study: Over 50% of Academics Admit to Pirating Research Papers
(Fast Company)
The Great Resignation and Higher Education Employees
(Ithaka S+R)
ARL Member Libraries
Aid for Türkiye and Syria
(Duke University Libraries)
Dean of York University Libraries Announces Retirement
(York University)
Libraries Advancing Health Equity: A Literature Review
(US National Library of Medicine via Reference Services Review)
New Web Archives from Columbia University Libraries and the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation
(Columbia University Libraries)
Tulane University Libraries Signs Transformative Open Access Agreement with Elsevier
(Tulane University Libraries)
UMass Amherst Libraries Announce Publication of Open-Access Peregrine Falcon Curriculum
(University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries)
(Brown University Library)
VCU Libraries Publishes Open E-book on Health Sciences Collection Development in Libraries
(VCU Libraries)
Libraries—Other
OpenAIRE Linked Open Data (LOD) Services to Be Discontinued
(OpenAIRE)
Higher Ed
New Report Reveals Strategies to Strengthen College and University Leadership during Financial Challenges
(NACUBO: National Association of College and University Business Officers)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Law, Policy, and AI Update: China Requires AI Watermarks, ChatGPT Won’t Make It to US Courtrooms
(HAI: Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Study: Congressional Discussions of Student Loans Avoid Race Almost Entirely
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)
Scholars & Scholarship
Provenance Documentation to Enable Explainable and Trustworthy AI: A Literature Review
(Data Intelligence)
In Other News
ChatGPT “May Make Up Facts,” OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer Says
(Business Insider)
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Wednesday, February 8
Top o’ the Review
Association of American Publishers Announces Finalists and Category Winners for 2023 PROSE Awards
(AAP: Association of American Publishers)
Generative AI and Copyright: An Interview with Jonathan Band
(ARL: Association of Research Libraries)
GPO Director Intends to Adopt Task Force Recommendation on Digital FDLP
(FDLP: Federal Depository Library Program, GPO: US Government Publishing Office)
New from WorldFAIR: Cross-national Social Sciences Survey FAIR Implementation Case Studies Report
(CODATA: Committee on Data of the International Science Council)
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP): Overview and Issues for Congress
(CRS: Congressional Research Service)
Upcoming Report Release and Webinar (Tuesday, February 14): Advancing Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEMM Organizations
(US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)
ARL Member Libraries
Missing Voices Website and Podcast Launch
(McGill University Library)
Provost Scholz Announces Interim Vice Provosts for UW–Madison Libraries
(University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries)
Sidney Lapidus ’59 Gift to Princeton University Library Opens Digital Access to Collection of Rare Revolution-Era Books and Publications
(Princeton University Library)
The Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library Turns 100
(Emory University Libraries)
Upcoming Event (Tuesday, February 28): Music HerStory: Women, Zines, and Punk
(Smithsonian Libraries and Archives)
Libraries—Other
A New JSTOR Fee Model Option to Maximize Access to Knowledge: A Letter from Kevin Guthrie
(JSTOR)
New Focus on Open Textbooks in LIBER Educational Resources Working Group
(LIBER: Association of European Research Libraries)
SAA Council Approves User Experience Section, Updates Strategic Plan Dashboard
(SAA: Society of American Archivists)
Video: Citizen Science and Community Data: Inspiring Engagement between CMU and Local Communities
(Carnegie Mellon University Libraries)
Higher Ed—Members
Kroc Institute Hosts Colombian Digital Archive at the University of Notre Dame
(University of Notre Dame)
Higher Ed—Other
Per-Student Federal Obligations for R&D and Fellowship, Training, and Traineeship Grants at HBCUs and Other Minority-Serving Institutions
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
Advocacy & Public Policy
American Bar Association Adopts New AI Accountability Resolution
(EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Gender-Inclusive Automatic Speech-Recognition Model for the Blind and Elderly
(Mozilla Foundation)
Scholars & Scholarship
Model(s) of the Future? Overlay Journals as an Overlooked and Emerging Trend in Scholarly Communication
(Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science)
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Thursday, February 9
Top o’ the Review
ACP Releases Report on Current State of Diversity in Canadian Publishing Workplaces
(ACP: Association of Canadian Publishers)
Earthquake in Türkiye and Syria
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Immediate Open Access “Should Be EU Default,” Says Presidency
(Research Professional News)
See also: More information, including video (Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union)
Librarians Are Finding Thousands of Books No Longer Protected by Copyright Law
(VICE)
New $60 Million NSF Program Aims to Increase the Speed and Scale of Research Solutions
(NSF: US National Science Foundation)
NIH Preprint Pilot Expands to Include Preprints across NIH-Funded Research
(NIH: US National Institutes of Health)
ARL Member Libraries
Access to Over 350 Previously Canceled Wiley Health Sciences Journals Reinstated through 2024
(University of Missouri Libraries)
Affordable Course Content: A Cross-unit Collaboration to Develop Institution-Wide Strategies at the University of Maryland
(College & Research Libraries News)
Digitally Archiving the Pandemic
(Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries)
Library Acquires Archives of Garth Fagan Dance Company
(Library of Congress)
UC San Diego Library Receives Grant to Digitize Archive for New Poetry Collection
(UC San Diego)
University of Miami Libraries Contains a Treasure Trove of Materials
(University of Miami)
Video: UTK Libraries’ Jargon Blaster Game
(The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Libraries)
Libraries—Other
Project JASPER: A Progress Report
(DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
Higher Ed—Members
Amazon and Howard University Announce Academic Collaboration
(Howard University)
NSF Grant to Make Coding More Accessible for Persons with Physical Disabilities
(USC: University of Southern California)
Data & Analytics
Twitter’s Plan to Cut Off Free Data Access Evokes “Fair Amount of Panic” among Scientists
(Science)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Scholars & Scholarship
NewsComp: Facilitating Diverse News Reading through Comparative Annotation (preprint)
(arXiv)
What Are Researchers’ Needs in Data Discovery? Analysis and Ranking of a Large-Scale Collection of Crowdsourced Use Cases
(Data Science Journal)
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