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Top o’ the Review
ARL, Other Organizations File Amicus Briefs in Appeal of Publisher Lawsuit, Hachette et al. v. Internet Archive
(infoDOCKET)
CEO Catherine Stihler Leaves Creative Commons
(CC: Creative Commons)
Exploring the Use of Digital Exhibits by Academic ARL Libraries
(JAL: Journal of Academic Librarianship)
New Topical Issue: Open and Equitable Scholarly Communications
(C&RL: College & Research Libraries)
NIST Tool Will Make Math-Heavy Research Papers Easier to View Online
(NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology, US Department of Commerce)
See also: Accessibility Update: arXiv Now Offers Papers in HTML Format (arXiv)
Updated: A Generative AI Primer
(National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education, Jisc)
ARL Member Libraries
Dom Flemons Collection at Heard Libraries Offers “Treasure Trove” for Scholars Exploring African American Influences on Roots Music
(Vanderbilt University Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries)
Jim Mork Selected to Serve as Acting Director of NLM’s Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
(NLM: US National Library of Medicine)
Marriott Library’s New Database Gives Fresh Insight into Slavery in Utah
(The University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library via Daily Utah Chronicle)
Open Book Collective Welcomes McMaster University Library
(McMaster University Library via Open Book Collective)
Tell Us How UC It: A Living Archive for Student Activism at UC San Diego
(UC San Diego Library)
UGA Deputy University Librarian Emily Gore to Serve on SPARC Steering Committee, ARL Advocacy and Public Policy Committee
(University of Georgia (UGA) Libraries)
Video: Ut Prosim: The Heart behind the Cheesy Nights Finals Week Tradition
(Virginia Tech University Libraries)
What We Learned from the 2022 Library Search Benchmarking Survey
(University of Michigan Library)
Libraries—Other
(BLC: Boston Library Consortium)
Higher Ed—Members
SUNY Report Issues New Strategies for Recruitment, Programs, Sustainability
(Buffalo News)
See also: The SUNY report discussed in the Buffalo News article
Scholars & Scholarship
bioRxiv: Celebrating 10 Years of the Preprint Server for Biology
(bioRxiv)
Mapping Bibliographic Metadata Collections: The Case of OpenCitations Meta and OpenAlex
(arXiv)
PNAS Announces New Guidelines for the Retention of Raw Data
(PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
Special Issue: 2023 Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit
(JeSLIB: Journal of eScience Librarianship)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
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Thursday, January 4
Top o’ the Review
IFLA Submits Response to UN Consultation on Information Integrity
(IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
Also new today from IFLA: Digital Public Infrastructure—a Briefing for Libraries
Mid-Career Professionals: Apply to International Library Leaders Programme at British Library, July 3–10, 2024—Deadline Noon GMT Thursday, February 8
(British Library)
More CNI Fall 2023 Meeting Videos Live
(CNI: Coalition for Networked Information)
Number of Countries with Open-Science Policies Has Almost Doubled Since Adoption of UNESCO Recommendation
(UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
Tool without a Handle: Are You Not Trained?
(The Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School)
2024 CRKN Conference Call for Proposals Now Open
(CRKN: Canadian Research Knowledge Network)
ARL Member Libraries
Digitized Images Illuminate US Colonial Period in the Philippines
(Cornell University Library)
Graycliff Donation Expands UB’s Frank Lloyd Wright and Martin Family Collection
(University at Buffalo (UB) Libraries via Buffalo News)
MU Libraries Integral to Research on Kafka
(University of Missouri (MU) Libraries)
New Trends in Digital Librarianship at the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum
(Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries & University Museums)
New York Public Library Continues Its Nationwide “Books for All: Teen Banned Book Club” with All American Boys
(New York Public Library)
UCSB Library Opens New Makerspace
(University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Library)
UH Libraries Highlights from 2023
(University of Houston (UH) Libraries)
Advocacy & Public Policy
DCN Response to US National Science Foundation (NSF) Public Access Plan 2.0
(DCN: Data Curation Network)
US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Releases Data Mining Report after EPIC FOIA Request
(EPIC: Electronic Privacy Information Center)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
AI Gender Bias, Disparities, and Fairness: Does Training Data Matter? (preprint)
(arXiv)
Building Community: Supporting Minoritized Scholars through Library Publishing and Open and Equitable Revenue Models
(C&RL: College & Research Libraries)
Scholars & Scholarship
Police Say AI-Generated Article about Local Murder Is “Entirely” Made Up
(The Byte, Futurism)
The Future of Data in Research Publishing: From Nice to Have to Need to Have?
(HDSR: Harvard Data Science Review)
In Other News
NIST Identifies Types of Cyberattacks That Manipulate Behavior of AI Systems
(NIST: National Institute of Standards and Technology, US Department of Commerce)
Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian
