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From the City of Pittsburgh: The Records Management Division of the Office of the City Clerk and City Council is pleased to announce the launch of a City Archives Digital Collections website, where extensive material from the archives will be made available to the public to browse and research online: https://pittsburgharchives.access.preservica.com/. The website features recently […]

From the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) AI Special Interest Group: The purpose of this working document is to set out considerations relevant for libraries developing a strategic response to Artificial Intelligence. The text is organised around developing a set of questions that prompt reflection and action (section 4). It is hoped […]

From a scite Blog Post: We’re excited to enter a new phase of our journey at scite by coming together with Research Solutions. The motivation behind this decision was our desire to further our mission of introducing the next generation of citations and better serve our users, publishers, and the scholarly ecosystem for the long term. […]

Association of Research Libraries ARL Annual Salary Survey 2022 Reports Data on Professional Positions in Member Libraries Citations Mendeley Shares “The Most Popular Citation Styles” DORA: Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)  DORA Welcomes New Co-Chairs and Vice Chair Language Authentic is the Merriam-Webster 2023 Word of the Year (via M-W.com) Public Libraries A Look Inside […]

From a NOAA Release: NOAA’s National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) launched a new data visualization tool, which will provide free and easy-to-access information on the status of U.S. coral reefs. It is the first tool focusing on shallow tropical coral reef data to be hosted on the NOAA GeoPlatform, which is NOAA’s central hub for […]

From the Associated Press: A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked them out. Here are the facts… Direct to Full Text Article See Also: More “Not Real […]

From the National University of Singapore: On the 164th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s magnum opus, all known surviving pages of the rough draft of Origin of species have been published online. Three recently rediscovered pages from Darwin’s draft of Origin of Species have been published for the first time together with all the other known surviving pages in a new […]

Academics Can We Identify Prominent Scholars Using ChatGPT? (via Scientometrics) Bias ChatGPT Replicates Gender Bias in Recommendation Letters (via Scientific American) Datasets ChatGPT Generates Fake Data Set To Support Scientific Hypothesis (via Nature) LLMs Large Language Models Pose Risk to Science With False Answers, Says Oxford Study (via OII) Scientific Publishing Analyzing the Impact Of […]

Academics Can We Identify Prominent Scholars Using ChatGPT? (via Scientometrics) Bias ChatGPT Replicates Gender Bias in Recommendation Letters (via Scientific American) Datasets ChatGPT Generates Fake Data Set To Support Scientific Hypothesis (via Nature) LLMs Large Language Models Pose Risk to Science With False Answers, Says Oxford Study (via OII) Scientific Publishing Analyzing the Impact Of […]