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• New Editorial: “The Role of Librarians in Data Science: A Call to Action”

  28-04-2016 16:49 via infodocket.com
  The following editorial appears in the Journal of eScience Librarianship.
  Title
  The Role of Librarians in Data Science: A Call to Action
  Author
  Elaine R. Martin
  University of Massachusetts Medical School
  Source 
  Journal of eScience Librarianship
  Vol 4, No 22015Posted Online: April 26, 2016
  Abstract
  Many academic institutions and their libraries have developed research data services, but sometimes institutional objectives, professional organizations, and librarians’ current and fu
  
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• New Report: Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025

  09-12-2025 21:33 via infodocket.com
  From Pew Research:Young people turn to a variety of platforms, but YouTube stands out for being used by nearly all teens. Roughly nine-in-ten report ever using it.
  Teens widely use three other platforms:About six-in-ten or more say they use TikTok and Instagram.
  A somewhat smaller share say they go on Snapchat (55%).Fewer use Facebook (31%) and WhatsApp (24%). And no more than about one-in-five say the same of Reddit or X 
  
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• Apply Now: NLM Data Science & Informatics Scholars Program

  08-12-2025 20:18 via nlm.nih.gov
  The NLM Data Science & Informatics (DSI) Scholars Program is now accepting applications! This summer internship supports and engages undergraduate and graduate students who have an interest in careers in computational biology and biomedical informatics. Interns will contribute their skills & perspectives to computational research projects in the biological sciences. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting January 15, 2026. The application period will close February 25,
  
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• COUNTER Releases Draft: Best Practice Guidance For Reporting AI Usage; Feedback Welcome

  08-12-2025 15:01 via infodocket.com
  From COUNTER:As many of you know, our Advisory Committee has been building some best practice guidance for generative and agentic AI usage metrics. Today we’re sharing the results of that work with you.
  The challenge
  We developed Release 5.1 of the Code of Practice before to the public availability of generative and agentic artificial intelligence. In this consultation we have built on the patterns in the Code to create mechanisms for reporting on this new type of usage. The new
  
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• Journal Article: The Importance of Inclusive and Balanced Collections in Libraries and Archives

  07-12-2025 19:27 via infodocket.com
  The article linked below was recently published by Insights.
  Title
  The Importance of Inclusive and Balanced Collections in Libraries and Archives
  Author
  Gali HaleviCLOCKSS
  Source
  InsightsVol. 38, 2025
  DOI: 10.1629/uksg.701
  Abstract
  This article examines the differences in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts between library collection development and archival practices, highlighting the unique challenges faced by archives, including dark archives, in achieving inclusive and balanced col
  
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• Research Tools: New Tracker From Tow Center for Digital Journalism “Monitors Developments Between News Publishers and AI Companies”

  04-12-2025 15:47 via infodocket.com
  From the Columbia Journalism Review Article by  Klaudia Jaźwińska:
  How, whether, and how much publishers will be compensated are some of the major existential questions facing the news industry in the “AI era.” Today, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism is releasing a tracker that monitors developments between news publishers and AI companies—including lawsuits, deals, and grants—based on publicly available information.Direct to AI Deals and Law
  
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• Consulting: Impelsys Acquires Delta Think

  04-12-2025 14:57 via infodocket.com
  The acquisition was announced this morning. The full text of the announcement is found below and is also available here.
  Impelsys, a global technology services company, today announced the acquisition of Delta Think, a leading consultancy in scholarly communications. Together, the two companies will offer clients a powerful combination of strategy and technology expertise across publishing, education, and healthcare.
  Since 2005, Delta Think has partnered with publishers, associations, and servic
  
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• The Public Interest Corpus Releases Principles and Goals

  03-12-2025 20:07 via infodocket.com
  From a Blog Post (via Authors Alliance):Today, we are pleased to release The Public Interest Corpus Principles and Goals. This release builds on the recap of our final planning workshop and anticipates release of our final deliverable later this month.
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  The Public Interest Corpus works with a growing coalition of stakeholders to develop a service that advances the library community’s ability to support the responsible use of their collections for AI research and develo
  
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• NIH Researcher Celebrated with Best Paper Award from The Menopause Society

  03-12-2025 06:00 via nlm.nih.gov
  National Library of Medicine is proud to announce that its research team, led by Dr. Clem McDonald, has been awarded the Menopause Best Paper Award by The Menopause Society. This award recognizes the most outstanding paper published in Menopause in 2024, selected by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal.
  
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• Roundup: New AI-Related Research and News Reports

  02-12-2025 20:07 via infodocket.com
  All of the items listed below were published/posted in the past day or two.ChatbotsPoetry Can Trick AI Chatbots Into Ignoring Safety Rules, New Research Shows
  Source: EuronewsCopyrightCreative Grey Zones: Copyright in the Age of Hybridity
  Source: The Alan Turing InstituteCultural HeritagePublishing Cultural Heritage Data in the Age of AI
  Source: Europeana/Open Future FoundationWritingEstimating the Prevalence of LLM-Assisted Text in Scholarly Writing (preprint)
  Source: arXivRetractionsPerformanc
  
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• Colorado: “Former Middle School Dean Who Objected to Book Removals Sues Elizabeth School District”

  02-12-2025 14:58 via infodocket.com
  From Chalkbeat Colorado:A former middle school administrator in the Elizabeth School District filed a lawsuit Sunday against the rural Colorado district, alleging that she was fired after she objected to the removal of 19 titles from school libraries last year.
  LeEllen Condry, who served as dean of students at Elizabeth Middle School, said she was terminated after three months because she’s “a Black woman who dared to speak out against the discriminatory book ban,” according to
  
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• Journal Article: “Book Club Programs in United States Academic Libraries: A Survey”

  02-12-2025 13:27 via infodocket.com
  The article linked below was published today by The Journal of Academic Librarianship.
  Title 
  Book Club Programs In United States Academic Libraries: A Survey
  Author
  Mary KamelaUniversity of Buffalo
  Source
  The Journal of Academic LibrarianshipVolume 52, Issue 1, January 2026, 103162
  DOI: 10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103162
  Abstract
  In the United States, book clubs are typically associated with the work of public or school librarians, due to their focus on extracurricular programs and rec
  
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• Rage Bait is the Oxford Word of the Year For 2025

  01-12-2025 01:32 via infodocket.com
  From Oxford University Press (OUP):After three days of voting in which more than 30,000 people had their say, we have chosen rage bait as our official Oxford Word of the Year for 2025.
  With 2025’s news cycle dominated by social unrest, debates about the regulation of online content, and concerns over digital wellbeing, our experts noticed that the use of rage bait this year has evolved to signal a deeper shift in how we talk about attention—both how it is given an
  
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• New Report: Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Publishes “Strategic Analysis of the Scholarly Communications Environment”

  27-11-2025 15:48 via infodocket.com
  From a COAR Announcement:This report presents a brief overview of the socio-political landscape for scholarly communications and describes some of the major forces that could significantly impact the repository ecosystem in the coming years. The aim is to provide COAR members with a synopsis of current trends that may affect repositories as well as to inform the development of the next COAR Strategy to be published in December 2025.
  The analysis was developed based on input from a survey of COAR
  
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• Listen Online: New PALABRA Archive Recordings Released for Digital Streaming

  27-11-2025 15:29 via infodocket.com
  From LC:
  In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, which was celebrated from September 15 to October 15, the Latin American, Caribbean, and European Division (LACE) has released a new batch of unpublished recordings from the PALABRA Archive for online streaming.
  The PALABRA Archive is a collection of audio recordings of 20th and 21st century poets and writers from Luso-Hispanic and U.S. Latino communities reading from their works. The collection now has now close to 900 r
  
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• Media Roundup: “Supreme Court Leaves Copyright Official Targeted by Trump in Place For Now”

  27-11-2025 00:05 via infodocket.com
  From Reuters:
  The U.S. Supreme Court postponed on Wednesday a decision on whether to let Donald Trump remove the government’s top copyright official, leaving her in place for now in the latest battle over the Republican president’s targeting of federal officials.
  The justices declined to immediately resolve the Justice Department’s request to lift a lower court’s ruling that had blocked Trump’s firing of Shira Perlmutter as the U.S. register
  
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• Repositories: arXiv Receives $7 Million in Gifts and Grants From Schmidt Sciences and NASA

  25-11-2025 14:17 via infodocket.com
  From an arXiv Announcement:We are pleased to announce that Schmidt Sciences and NASA have generously awarded arXiv $7 million in gifts and grants, respectively, to allow arXiv to complete its technology migration project and to explore ways to improve the arXiv experience through personalized and fair discovery of new preprints.
  arXiv began its cloud migration and code modernization project in 2023 with support from the Simons Foundation. This additional funding from Schmidt Sciences will allow
  
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• Digital Resources: Charles Darwin’s Personal Address Book Available Online For the First Time

  23-11-2025 23:41 via infodocket.com
  From the National University of Singapore:
  The Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) publishes for the first time today: Charles Darwin’s personal Address Book. It offers an astonishingly personal glimpse into the life and work of the great scientist.
  Charles Darwin’s Address Book is a small brown leather notebook, with “VISITS” and “ADDRESSES” printed on its spine (photo 1) and index-letter tabs in alternating
  
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• Research Paper: Toward Integrating AI Chat and Search: A User-Centered Perspective Across Age Groups

  23-11-2025 14:44 via infodocket.com
  The article linked below was recently made available (full text) by the ACM Digital Library.
  Title
  Toward Integrating AI Chat and Search: A User-Centered Perspective Across Age Groups
  Authors
  Chen HeUniversity of Helsinki
  Michiel SpapeUniversity of Macau
  Khadijatul KobraUniversity of Helsinki
  Robin WelschUniversity of Helsinki
  Giulio JacucciUniversity of Helsinki
  Source
  ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
  DOI: 10.1145/3777486
  AbstractPeople face challenges with complex search tas
  
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• Report: “Oxford University Library Launches Its Own Gin For Sale”

  21-11-2025 19:47 via infodocket.com
  From the Oxford Mail:Sky Wave Distillery at Bicester Motion has produced a premium London Dry gin for the world-famous Oxford University library.
  Distillers say the gin has been inspired by the intricate ceiling carvings of the majestic Divinity School, and the rich woody aromas of the shelves and leather aromas in Duke Humfrey’s Library.
  Andrew Parsons, Sky Wave co-founder and Master Distiller, said: “It was a great honour to work with one of the world’s oldest libraries, and
  
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• Report: OpenAI Sued For Infringing OverDrive’s ‘Sora’ Trademark

  20-11-2025 23:47 via infodocket.com
  From Reuters:
  Digital library app maker OverDrive has sued OpenAI in Ohio federal court, alleging that the artificial intelligence startup’s Sora video-generation app violates its trademark rights in the “Sora” name.
  OverDrive said in a lawsuit,  filed on Wednesday that OpenAI’s app will cause consumer confusion with its own Sora app, which provides e-books and other digital library materials to students.
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  If immediate steps are not taken to protect children fr
  
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• Authors Alliance: An Interview with Kate McCready (BTAA) and Charles Watkinson (UM) About the Big Ten Open Books Program

  20-11-2025 15:54 via infodocket.com
  Dave Hansen, Executive Director of the Authors Alliance, interviews Kate McCready (BTAA) and Charles Watkinson (University of Michigan Press) about the Big Ten Open Books Program that launched in  2023 and released a their second collection in August.
  From the Interview:
  Authors Alliance has had a longstanding interest in helping authors see their older books reinvigorated with new life by making them available online for free on an open access basis. One of the most exciting initiatives wo
  
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• Harvard Law School Library Releases First Complete Set of Digitized Nuremberg Trials Records

  20-11-2025 12:51 via infodocket.com
  From Harvard Law SchoolBeginning today, the Harvard Law School Library is making available online the first complete, fully searchable, digitized collection of official evidentiary documents and trial transcripts in English from all 13 Nuremberg Trials, at https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/.
  On the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the first trial on November 20, 1945, researchers, scholars, and learners around the globe for the first time have open access to a fully searchable digital archiv
  
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• AI + Google Scholar: Say Hello to Scholar Labs

  18-11-2025 19:00 via infodocket.com
  UPADTE: Aaron Tay takes Scholar Labs for a spin in this Substack post.
  —–End Update—–
  If you’ve been wondering if or when Google would begin offering AI technology with Google Scholar, so have we.
  As of this hour (1pm EST) you don’t have to wonder any longer.
  A new experimental feature (as of today available to a limited number of logged-in users, waitlist for others…including me), Scholar Labs, is now live. Details below.
  Does Google Scholar do it bett
  
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• AI + Google Scholar: Say Hello to Google Scholar Labs

  18-11-2025 19:00 via infodocket.com
  If you’ve been wondering if or when Google would begin offering AI technology with Google Scholar, so have we.
  As of this hour (1pm EST) you don’t have to wonder any longer.
  A new experimental feature (as of today available to a limited number of logged-in users, waitlist for others), Google Scholar Labs, is now live. Details below.
  Does Google Scholar do it better or differently than similar tools? Stay tuned.
  Regardless, for many people Google Scholar is the one and only academic r
  
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• Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence Releases (AI2) DR-Tulu: “An Open, End-To-End Training Recipe For Long-Form Deep Research”

  18-11-2025 18:16 via infodocket.com
  From an Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) Announcement:Deep research is about building agentic systems that can plan, search, and synthesize information from diverse sources to produce in-depth, well-attributed answers to complex questions. Done well, these capabilities could accelerate scientific discovery and allow students and professionals to explore unfamiliar domains with expert-level rigor, backed by transparent citations and reasoning traces.
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  To address these chall
  
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• Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2)Releases DR-Tulu: “An Open, End-To-End Training Recipe For Long-Form Deep Research”

  18-11-2025 18:16 via infodocket.com
  From an Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) Announcement:Deep research is about building agentic systems that can plan, search, and synthesize information from diverse sources to produce in-depth, well-attributed answers to complex questions. Done well, these capabilities could accelerate scientific discovery and allow students and professionals to explore unfamiliar domains with expert-level rigor, backed by transparent citations and reasoning traces.
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  To address these chall
  
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• Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2) Releases DR-Tulu: “An Open, End-To-End Training Recipe For Long-Form Deep Research”

  18-11-2025 18:16 via infodocket.com
  From an Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) Announcement:Deep research is about building agentic systems that can plan, search, and synthesize information from diverse sources to produce in-depth, well-attributed answers to complex questions. Done well, these capabilities could accelerate scientific discovery and allow students and professionals to explore unfamiliar domains with expert-level rigor, backed by transparent citations and reasoning traces.
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  To address these chall
  
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• Report From UK: “Libraries Coordinate on Book Disposal to Safeguard Rare Texts”

  18-11-2025 14:24 via infodocket.com
  From Times Higher Education (THE):Plans to ensure that at least seven copies of every scholarly book are kept across UK libraries will help enrich research resources and safeguard rare texts rather than push institutions to downsize their collections, librarians have insisted.
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  To address these worries over space and the disposal of potentially valuable rare texts, libraries have been invited to join a new initiative, known as the UK Print Book Collection (UK PBC), to help coordinate libra
  
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• Center for Open Science (COS) Awarded Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Preserve and Safeguard Publicly Funded Scientific Data

  18-11-2025 00:20 via infodocket.com
  Here’s the Full Text of the COS Announcement:The Center for Open Science (COS) has been awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to develop a community-driven strategic plan for ensuring the long-term preservation, accessibility, and usability of federally-funded scientific data.
  COS has long championed policies and practices that increase the openness, integrity, and trustworthiness of research. The success of the open science movement relies on the integrity, sustai
  
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