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Day in Review (June 6–9)

Last Updated on August 9, 2022, 4:22 pm ET

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Monday, June 6

Top o’ the Review

A New Approach to Understanding War through Television News: Introducing the TV News Visual Explorer and the Belarusian, Russian & Ukrainian TV News Archive
(Internet Archive)

Special Report: Artificial Intelligence: Where Are We Now?
(EDUCAUSE Review)

Ensuring More Inclusive Hiring Processes (preprint)
(portal: Libraries and the Academy)

Global Potential of Internet Remains Largely Untapped, Says UN Agency for Digital Technology
(International Telecommunication Union)

OpenAIRE Announces Launch of OpenPlato, an Open Science e-Learning Training Platform for the Community
(OpenAIRE)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Emory Digital Collections Update for Spring 2022
(Emory University Libraries)

How UBC Library Is Rethinking Problematic Indigenous Representations in Children’s Literature
(The University of British Columbia Library)

UC Berkeley Library Announces New Director of the Bancroft Library, Associate University Librarian for Special Collections
(UC Berkeley Library)

University Libraries Releases Guide to Conscious Editing for Finding Aids and Catalog Records
(UNC University Libraries)

 

Libraries—Other

Assessment Guidelines for Open Access Publishers
(Canadian Research Knowledge Network)

 

Higher Ed—Members

KU Hosting Public Digital Humanities Institute for Scholars across the Country
(The University of Kansas)

Princeton University Will Name Building in Honor of Laura Wooten, Who Was Recognized as Longest Serving US Poll Worker
(Princeton University)

 

Higher Ed—Other

Announcing a New Partnership with the Kessler Scholars Collaborative
(Ithaka S+R)

Student Pathways through Postsecondary Education, 2011 to 2019
(Statistics Canada)

Survey: The Majority of Faculty Keen to Use Technology
(Diverse: Issues in Higher Education)

To Recruit Workers, Big Employers Team with Historically Black Colleges
(The Washington Post)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Higher Ed’s Future May Lie in Its Past
(Association of Public and Land-grant Universities)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Open Data: The Building Block of 21st Century (Open) Science
(Data & Policy)

 

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Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET
Information Industry Analyst
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Tuesday, June 7

Top o’ the Review

Apple Just Killed the Password—for Real This Time
(WIRED)

DataWorks! Prize–Incentives for Building a Culture of Data Sharing and Reuse
(US National Institutes of Health)

Measuring the Developmental Function of Peer Review: A Multi-Dimensional, Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of Peer Review Reports from 740 Academic Journals
(PeerJ)

OER Resources to Help Equip Growing Field of ScholComm Librarianship
(SPARC)

Video Playlist: Presentations from the COAR 2022 Annual Meeting
(Confederation of Open Access Repositories)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Connecting Communities Digital Initiative Announces Second Round of Grant Opportunities for Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Higher Education Institutions
(US Library of Congress)

Hootie & the Blowfish Collection Comes to UofSC Libraries
(University of South Carolina)

SAGE Publishing and the University of California Announce a Transformative Agreement to Expand Reach of UC Research
(Office of Scholarly Communication, University of California

 

Libraries—Other

ACRL National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Information Literacy Module Review Task Force
(ACRL Insider)

JMIRx Med: First Preprint Overlay Journal Accepted in the Directory of Open Access Journals
(JMIR Publications)

Save the Date: Rescheduled IFLA ARL Webinar Series on Research Ethics in an Open Research Environment
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)

 

Higher Ed—Members

Addressing Graduate Students’ Anxieties: Measuring the Impact of Individual Development Plans
(University Affairs)

Race and Racism at U-M Is Inclusive History Project’s Initial Focus
(University of Michigan)

 

Higher Ed—Other

Data Brief: Why Are Foundation Courses and Early GPAs Important?
(American Association of State Colleges and Universities)

Iowa’s Public Universities Eye Expanding Online Education
(The Gazette)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Canada: Federal Government Spending on Science and Technology, 2020/2021 (Actual), 2021/2022 (Preliminary), and 2022/2023 (Intentions)
(Statistics Canada)

LCA Joins Amicus Brief: Valancourt Books, LLC v. Merrick B. Garland et al.
(Library Copyright Alliance)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

National Academies Release New Report on Ontologies in the Behavioral Sciences
(Consortium of Social Science Associations)

 

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Wednesday, June 8

Top o’ the Review

20th LIBER LAG (Architecture Working Group) Seminar 2022: “Designing for Learning and Scholarship: A Challenge for Librarians, Architects, and All” (event report)
(Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche)

E-learning Is a Burden for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
(Scientific Reports)

Educating Researchers about DOIs
(LYRASIS)

Measuring the Influence of Non-scientific Features on Citations
(Scientometrics)

Statement by AAC&U and PEN America regarding Recent Legislative Restrictions on Teaching and Learning
(American Association of Colleges and Universities)

 

ARL Member Libraries

Big Ten Academic Alliance Announces Support for LYRASIS Open Access Community Investment Program
(Big Ten Academic Alliance)

Farewell Q&A with Elaine L. Westbrooks
(UNC University Libraries)

Rebuilding Rare Books in a Virtual Space: A Conversation with Curator Dot Porter
(Penn Libraries)

 

Libraries—Other

Developing Research Impact Services–Perspectives from Three OCLC Research Library Partnership Institutions (video)
(OCLC Research)

Value and Importance of GIS Librarianship at Universities
(Directions Magazine)

 

Higher Ed—Members

UNC Press Initiative Aims to Tame the Soaring and Burdensome Cost of Textbooks
(NC Policy Watch)

 

Higher Ed—Other

Do Americans Value Higher Education? (podcast)
(American Council on Higher Education)

 

Advocacy & Public Policy

Standard Technical Measures Require Technology and Consensus That Do Not Exist
(Re:Create Coalition)

US Treasury Announces First Capital Projects Fund Awards to Increase Access to Affordable, High-Speed Internet
(US Department of the Treasury)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Accelerated Peer Review and Paper Processing Models in Academic Publishing
(Publishing Research Quarterly)

 

In Other News

Service Annual Survey Shows Continuing Decline in Print Publishing Revenue
(US Census Bureau)

 

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Thursday, June 9

Top o’ the Review

Academic Libraries’ Streaming Media Trends in the US and Canada: New Survey Results Available
(Ithaka S+R)

Development and Governance of FAIR Thresholds for a Data Federation
(Data Science Journal)

HathiTrust Copyright Review Passes 1 Million Milestone
(HathiTrust)

Theme for Open Access Week 2022: Open for Climate Justice
(SPARC)

US Copyright Office Releases Report on Women in the Copyright System
(US Copyright Office)

 

ARL Member Libraries

2022 CRL Annual Council of Voting Members Meeting
(Center for Research Libraries)
And in other news…CRL Implements New Library Service Platform and Catalog

FADGI Publishes Revision to Influential Still Image Digitization Guidelines
(US Library of Congress)

Guylaine Beaudry Appointed Next Trenholme Dean of Libraries
(McGill University)

Rebuilding Rare Books in a Virtual Space: A Conversation with Curator Dot Porter
(Penn Libraries)

Syracuse University Becomes First Library to Preserve Government Collections as They Are Published
(US Government Publishing Office)

The Libraries Collaborates with the ASPCA to Digitize Over 150,000 Pages of Historical Animal Welfare Archival Material
(NC State University Libraries)

 

Libraries—Other

Iconic Red Phone Box Begins a New Life at Cambridge University Library
(University of Cambridge)

OASPA Announces Launch of New Supporter Membership Category
(Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association)

 

Higher Ed

Capturing the Scientific Impact of Social Media
(Physics)

Preparing Graduate Students for the Ethical Challenges of Big Data
(Council of Graduate Schools)

Using Campus 5G Networks, Researchers Aim for the Next Big Innovation
(University Affairs)

 

Scholars & Scholarship

Identifying and Correcting Invalid Citations Due to DOI Errors in Crossref Data
(Scientometrics)

Retractions and Rewards in Science: An Open Question for Reviewers and Funders
(bioRxiv)

 

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

http://infoDOCKET.com
@infodocket

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