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From a LIBER Announcement: LIBER is pleased to announce that Martine Pronk has been appointed as Interim Executive Director, for the period 22 May-1 September 2023. Martine will take over the role from current Executive Director Astrid Verheusen, who will leave LIBER in May to begin a new role as Managing Director and CIO at RKD (Netherlands Institute […]

Here’s the Full Text of an Announcement From Lancaster University: A new project that works to increase access to valuable research is to receive more than £5.8 million [$7.15 Million/USD] in funding. Led by Lancaster University [a list of partners is found below], the Open Book Futures (OBF) project will develop and support organisations, tools […]

Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) Call for Working Group Proposals 2023 (via RDA) Envisioning Together: A Report of Session 803 (SAA 2022) (via DLF) NISO’s Draft Content Profile/Linked Document Standard Now Open for Public Comments Japan: New National Cataloging Platform for Libraries is Launched Using OCLC’s Syndeo (via OCLC) Project Muse Journal Publishers Offer […]

From the The Ministry of Higher Education and Research, Government of France: The Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes the results of the French Open Science Monitor for 2022. The rate of French scientific publications in open access has increased for the fourth consecutive year. Thanks to an innovative methodology, the Monitor has been […]

From a Post on the Programme On Democracy & Technology (DemTech), Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) Website: Several members of our research team will be attending the 2023 International Communication Association conference in Toronto, where they will be presenting their latest research and engaging with other experts in the field of communication. [Clip] The […]

From Governing:  At a time when many states dispute whether accurate history should be taught in schools, Connecticut Historical Society is celebrating $1 million in federal funding to digitize its documents dating back to the colonial and Revolutionary War era. [Clip] The digitization project will primarily focus on items from the colonial and Revolutionary era. […]

From an arXiv Blog Post: arXivLabs, a framework for enabling the arXiv community to contribute to arXiv, continues to grow. We recently rolled out two new integrations—DagsHub and Influence Flower—to provide our users with access to data, code, and other materials underlying research and present a map of influence for individual articles on arXiv, respectively. Through its […]

From Bard College: The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) today announced that acclaimed curator Robert Storr has donated major selections of his library and archive, an intensely comprehensive research collection that significantly enhances CCS Bard’s campus resources. Consisting of over 25,000 volumes, the library deepens CCS Bard’s holdings to include publications spanning […]

ACRL Acquires Threshold Achievement Test for Information Literacy (TATIL) Chat-Based Search and Discovery: Perplexity AI For iOS App Released & AI Search Startup Raises $26 Million To Offer Rival To Google (via Bloomberg) Harry Ransom Center Acquires Archive of Poet James Fenton (via Ransom Center) Elon Musk and Top AI Researchers Call for Pause on […]