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Monday, October 18
Top o’ the Review
Adapt and Advance: Global Community Leaders Highlight Opportunities to Drive Openness and Equity in Scholarly Publishing at 15th Berlin Open Access Conference
(Office of Scholarly Communication, University of California)
See also: Conference summary, recordings available from OA2020
Developing Research through Podcasts: Circulating Spaces, a Case Study
(Digital Humanities Quarterly)
Future of Scholarly Meetings: Announcing a New Cohort Project Funded by the Sloan Foundation
(Ithaka S+R)
Metrics for Data Repositories and Knowledgebases: Working Group Report
(US National Institutes of Health)
Register for a Conversation with IARLA about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Where We Are, Where We Are Going
(International Alliance of Research Library Associations)
Uplifting Global Voices: A Reflection on Publishing an Edited Book on Academic Libraries and Wikipedia
(Diff blog, Wikimedia)
ARL Member Libraries
Bringing Out Information in Re-cataloging Project
(The University of Iowa Libraries)
Florida State University Libraries Debuts New Digital Project Hosting Service
(Florida State University Libraries)
Government Publications Library Named Library of the Year by US GPO
(University of Minnesota Libraries)
Library Acquires the Papers of Winemaker and Innovator Richard “Dick” Peterson
(UC Davis Library)
OpenOKState Saves OSU Students $500,000
(Oklahoma State University)
UNC-Chapel Hill Joins Project to Investigate Slavery and US Universities through Archival Records
(UNC University Libraries)
Higher Ed
Coming to College Hungry: How Food Insecurity Relates to Amotivation, Stress, Engagement, and First-Semester Performance in a Four-Year University
(Journal of Postsecondary Student Success)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Nondisclosure Agreements, Trade Secrets, and Trademarks Considered Very Important to More US Businesses Than Were Patents or Copyrights in 2017
(US National Science Foundation)
Scholars & Scholarship
Academic Societies Continue Strong Support of arXiv
(arXiv)
Open Science and Data Policy Developments: Virtual SciDataCon 2021 Strand—Tuesday, October 19
(CODATA—Committee on Data, International Science Council)
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Tuesday, October 19
Top o’ the Review
2021 STM Report Highlights Rapid Transformation to Open Access
(Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers)
Census Bureau Data Reveal Decline in School Enrollment for All Age Groups
(US Census Bureau)
Designing a Useful Textbook for an Open Access Audience—Q&A with Filipe Campante, Federico Sturzenegger, Andrés Velasco
(LSE Impact Blog)
Learn Wikidata: Vanderbilt University Library Professionals Provide Guided Tour in Interactive Course
(Diff blog, Wikimedia)
Open-Access Market Sizing Update 2020
(Delta Think)
ARL Member Libraries
Elephantine Chant Book Dates to 1600
(Western University)
Library Marks Advising Milestone
(Cornell University)
Remembering William J. Studer, University Libraries Director 1977–1999
(The Ohio State University Libraries)
Undergraduate Library Update
(University of Illinois Library)
What Books Do You Like to Read? Popular Reading Pilot at Mizzou Libraries
(University of Missouri Libraries)
Libraries—Other
Next Steps for Open Book Collective
(COPIM—Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs)
Repositories in Open Research—Kathleen Shearer (podcast episode)
(Jisc Research Talk podcast)
Search Engine Could Help Researchers Scour Internet for Privacy Documents
(Penn State University)
Advocacy & Public Policy
National Strategic Overview for Research and Development Infrastructure
(US National Science and Technology Council)
Scholars & Scholarship
Navigating Complex Authorities: Intellectual Freedom, Information Literacy, and Truth in Pandemic STEM Information
(IFLA Journal)
Questioning CRAAP: A Comparison of Source Evaluation Methods with First-Year Undergraduate Students
(Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)
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Wednesday, October 20
Top o’ the Review
Bringing Inclusive Language Into IT
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Ensuring Equitable Participation in Open Science—October 21 Webinar
(Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications)
From Vision to Value: Introducing Our 2022–2025 Strategy
(ORCID)
Lawsuit Challenges Classroom Censorship
(American Association of University Professors)
Library Publishing Workflows Project Releases Journal Workflow Documentation
(Educopia Institute)
ARL Member Libraries
Cuban Heritage Collection to Host Fourth New Directions Conference
(University of Miami)
Going the Extra Mile: Library Contributes to Project in Colombian Andes
(J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah)
Michigan Publishing and ScienceOpen Begin New Partnership around University of Michigan Press’s Open-Access Books
(ScienceOpen)
New NLM Tutorial Available: Preprints: Accelerating Research
(US National Library of Medicine)
University of Pennsylvania Libraries Receives Major Gift of Photographic Plates by Edward S. Curtis
(Penn Libraries)
Higher Ed—Members
New Algorithm Searches Historic Documents to Identify Noteworthy People
(University at Buffalo)
UC Adopts Recommendations for Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence
(University of California)
Higher Ed—Other
The Real Price of College Toolkit and Report
(The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Increasing Participation of Women in Climate Change Debate, Including as Leaders, Is Essential for a Carbon-Zero Future
(International Science Council)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
CIHR to Provide Support to SSHRC’s Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative
(Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council)
Employers, Colleges Address Racial Injustice, but Much Work Remains
(National Association of Colleges and Employers)
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Thursday, October 21
Top o’ the Review
Call for Expressions of Interest for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Opportunities
(Canadian Association of Research Libraries)
Not Open for All: Accessibility of Open Textbooks
(Insights: The UKSG Journal)
Promoting and Nurturing Interactions with Open Access Books: Strategies for Publishers and Authors
(COPIM—Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs)
ARL Member Libraries
On Outdated and Harmful Language in Library of Congress Subject Headings
(Columbia University Libraries)
Video Recording and Prepared Statements: Oversight of Library of Congress Modernization Efforts Hearing
(US Senate Committee on Rules and Administration)
Libraries—Other
Making the Digital Shift Visible: Postprint and Its Implications (video recording)
(Research Libraries UK)
Panel Discussion (October 27) on Building Structural Equity in Open Access
(arXiv)
Spotlight on AGUA Development: Enhancing Local Discovery of Shared Collections
(California Digital Library)
Higher Ed
Special Report: Digital Transformation
(EDUCAUSE Review)
Advocacy & Public Policy
Art Is Work: Policies to Support Creative Workers
(American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
FTC Staff Report Finds Many Internet Service Providers Collect Troves of Personal Data, Users Have Few Options to Restrict Use
(US Federal Trade Commission)
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Jim Crow Debt: How Black Borrowers Experience Student Loans
(The Education Trust)
Scholars & Scholarship
Evidence of Research Mastery: How Applicants Argue the Feasibility of Their Research Projects
(Research Evaluation)
In Other News
Second Report from the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence
(Computing Community Consortium)
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