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From the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA): In a world of digital abundance, and over a million articles being published open access in 2023, vast quantities of scholarly outputs remain locked behind paywalls, and many scholars across the world are blocked by dominant models of open access publishing. Blockers include funding systems that uphold […]

The report linked to below was published by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) from the  Computing Research Association (CRA). Title Future of Information Retrieval Research in the Age of Generative AI Authors James Allan University of Massachusetts Amherst Eunsol Choi University of Texas at Austin New York University Daniel P. Lopresti Lehigh University CCC Hamed […]

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From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress has named Rachael Stoeltje as the new chief of the Library’s National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, which includes the Library’s Packard Campus in Culpeper, Virginia, beginning in January 2025. Stoeltje will oversee the state-of-the-art facility where the Library of Congress acquires, preserves and provides access to the […]

From Science: Last week, the Indian government announced a giant deal with multiple publishers that will allow an estimated 18 million students, faculty, and researchers free access to nearly 13,000 journals, including some top-tier ones, through a single portal. Under the One Nation One Subscription scheme, which kicks in on 1 January 2025, India will […]

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The full-text article linked to below was recently published by Quantitative Science Studies (QSS). Title Open Access Journals Lack Image Accessibility Guidelines Authors Kaitlin Stack Whitney Rochester Institute of Technology Julia Perrone  Kent State University Willard Library of Battle Creek Christie A. Bhalai Kent State University Source DOI: 10.1162/qss_a_00338 Abstract In recent decades, there has […]

From the Library of Congress: The Library of Congress has released a groundbreaking online collection of the National AIDS Memorial Quilt Records, making one of the most poignant symbols of the AIDS epidemic in the United States available to a global audience. As the largest communal art project in the world, the AIDS Memorial Quilt […]

From Digital Science: New analysis suggests that open data practice is now on the edge of becoming a standard, recognised and supported scholarly output, globally. As part of the latest in the State of Open Data series, produced by partners Digital Science, Figshare and Springer Nature, direct author-sharing practices have been analysed from a funder, country and institutional […]