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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 […]

From a Science Article by Jeffery Brainard: Nearly two dozen journals from two of the fastest growing open-access publishers, including one of the world’s largest journals by volume, will no longer receive a key scholarly imprimatur. On 20 March, the Web of Science database said it delisted the journals along with dozens of others, stripping […]

Here’s the Full Text of an ALA Statement (March 27, 2023): The American Library Association (ALA) condemns—in the strongest terms possible—the violence, threats of violence and other acts of intimidation that are increasingly taking place in America’s libraries, including last week’s bomb threats to Hilton Central District Schools in New York, which put the lives […]

From HathiTrust: The world has changed dramatically in the 15 years since HathiTrust’s creation and even more so in the 5 years since we adopted our 2019-2023 Strategic Directions. Despite the global disruption and changes of recent years — as well as 47% membership growth — we have followed the course laid out in that plan. […]