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Day in Review (July 15-18)

Last Updated on July 16, 2024, 3:24 pm ET

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Monday, July 15

Top o’ the Review

CC Is Refreshing Its Strategy. Here’s Why Your Voice Matters.
(CC: Creative Commons)

CMU Launches New Initiative for Human-Centered AI
(Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Libraries)

EBSCO Industries Announces Annie Callanan as New CEO of EBSCO Information Services
(EBSCO)

Empowering Inclusive Workplaces: ASERL’s New Accessible Hiring Conversation Guide
(ASERL: Association of Southeastern Research Libraries)

Generative AI in Higher Education: Seeing ChatGPT Through Universities’ Policies, Resources, and Guidelines (preprint)
(arXiv)

IATUL Strategic Directions Action Plan 2024–2028
(IATUL: International Association of University Libraries)

New Research Excellence Framework Released by Canadian Institutes of Health Research
(RoRI: Research on Research Institute)

Overview of US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Guidelines for Research Security Programs at Covered Institutions
(COGR)

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Open Data: Legal and Policy Challenges
(EU: European Union)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Artists’ Books Blend the Line Between Artwork and Written Text
(University of Miami Libraries)

Empowering Research: The Evolution & Progress of Ohio University Libraries’ Research Services Department
(Ohio University Libraries)

Empowering Research: UC’s Open Source Initiative: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant Aids Multi-campus Effort to Build a Network of Open Source Program Offices
(UC San Diego Library)

Free for All: How the Library Assists Faculty with Open Educational Resources
(University of Virginia Library)

New Research Data Management Guide Launched to Support Researchers and Students
(University of Waterloo Library)

PUL Launches Princeton Data Commons Research Data Repository
(Princeton University Library)

Upcoming Online Lecture: One Love and Venceremos—Celebrating the Correspondence of Austin Clarke and Andrew Salkey (Thursday, July 25)
(McMaster University Library with British Library)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Net Neutrality Rules Reinstatement Temporarily Halted by US Appeals Court
(Reuters)

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

AI for All: Addressing Bias, Discrimination, and Ethics in Artificial Intelligence
(University of Ottawa)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Can You Spot the Bot? Identifying AI-Generated Writing in College Essays
(International Journal for Educational Integrity)

ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, SciSpace, and Wolfram Versus Higher Education Assessments
(Australasian Journal of Engineering Education)

 

Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian


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Tuesday, July 16

Top o’ the Review

Defining the Roles of Research Software (Version 2)
(Upstream, FORCE11)

Event Report: “AI and the Digital Humanities” Session at CILIP’s 2024 Conference
(Digital Scholarship Blog, British Library)

G20 Research and Innovation Scorecard 2024
(Clarivate)

Microsoft Unveils Software That Allows LLMs to Work with Spreadsheets
(Tech Xplore)

Navigating New Horizons: A Global Foresight Report on Planetary Health and Human Wellbeing
(ISC: International Science Council)

Open Access Loses Share—Market Sizing 2024 Sneak Peek
(Delta Think)

Opinion: What Teachers Call AI Cheating, Leaders in the Workforce Might Call Progress
(The Hechinger Report)

R/PRAC Receives Three Year, Million Dollar Grant from the Mellon Foundation
(R/PRAC: Rutgers/Puerto Rico Archival Collaboration)

The Limits of GenAI Educators
(HBR: Harvard Business Review)

Workshop Paper: This Reference Does Not Exist: An Exploration of LLM Citation Accuracy and Relevance
(Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing via ACL Anthology)

 

ARL Member Libraries

A View from the Vault: Rutilated Quartz from John Ruskin’s Collection
(University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press)

The Power of Usability Testing and Subtle Design Changes to Improve UX
(University of Michigan Library)

UCSB Library Receives the Papers of Nobel Laureate Herbert Kroemer
(University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Library)

UMD Announces Major New Gift to the International Piano Archives at Maryland
(University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries)

With a Snip of the Scissors, the L&B Room Officially Reopened, to a Round of Applause
(Yale Library)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Making AI More Open Could Accelerate Research and Tech Transfer
(UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

New FPF Report: Confidential Computing and Privacy: Policy Implications of Trusted Execution Environments
(FPF: Future of Privacy Forum)

 

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Bias and Fairness in Large Language Models: A Survey (preprint)
(arXiv)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Cutting Through the Clutter: The Potential of LLMs for Efficient Filtration in Systematic Literature Reviews (preprint)
(arXiv)

New Book: “Achieving Global Open Access”
(RoRI: Research on Research Institute)

 

Curated by Gary D. Price, MLIS
Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
Librarian


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