ARL releases its annual salary survey for 2023
(20 Nov 2024) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2023, which analyzes salary data for professional staff working in 126 of the 127 ARL…
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New data shows AI companies love ‘premium publisher’ content
(11 Nov 2024) OpenAI, Google, Meta and Anthropic all rely deeply on content from premium publishers to train the large language models, or LLMs, at the heart of their AI efforts, even as…
20 things you didn’t know about Google Scholar – Celebrating 20 years of its birth
(18 Nov 2024) Google Scholar, a tool used by researchers around the world, was founded by two researchers. We started Scholar in 2004, physically delivering hard drives to the office,…
Could AI help catalog thousands of digital library books?
(19 Nov 2024) Catalog records are key to storing and finding digital library materials. As the volume of digital materials continues to grow rapidly, the Library of Congress is exploring whether…
Researchers propose ethical framework to guide use of LLMs in academic writing
(14 Nov 2024) Researchers from a group of prestigious universities have devised guidelines for using large language models (LLMs) in academic writing. As LLMs become more common and easier to…
Evaluating generative AI resources: Choice’s tips on how to evaluate AI tools
(13 Nov 2024) Choice has a mission to help collection development librarians in higher education choose the best titles for their collections. Students and library vendors are pushing AI adoption…
Embracing the Metaverse: A Survey of VR and AR practices at the United States’ Top 100 university libraries
(1 Nov 2024) From the abstract: The purpose of this study is to learn more about virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) practices at the United States’ top…
Report: SEALG conference and annual meeting, Frankfurt am Main 2024
(7 Nov 2024) The conference and annual general meeting of the Southeast Asia Library Group (SEALG) took place at the Bibliothek Sprach & Kulturwissenschaften (BSKW), J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on…
Manga Library Z to cease operations soon
(7 Nov 2024) Manga Library Z announced it is going to bring to an end its online operations on November 26, 2024; the website SiliconEra reported. The company said they were having…
The Thwarted progress of open access in Indonesia
(14 Nov 2024) Four years ago, Indonesia was one of the top producers of open-access documents. As a result, Indonesian academics have many Indonesian-written open access journals to submit to.…
STM Report: Trusted Identity in academic publishing
(31 Oct 2024) Traditionally, academic publishing has relied on an open trust model, where minimal verification—often just a working email address—is required for researchers to participate in the peer-review and…
Taylor & Francis announces ‘collective funding’ pilot to support OA publishing
(13 Nov 2024) A new Taylor & Francis pilot aims to support open access (OA) publishing using a combination of existing funding sources, enabling authors of every article type to choose…
Annual Reviews launches Katina Magazine for librarians, publishers, and vendors
(12 Nov 2024) Nonprofit organization Annual Reviews is pleased to announce the launch of Katina, a new digital publication that addresses the value of librarians to academia and wider society and…
Flinders University is hiring Senior Librarian (Research Engagement)
(11 Nov 2024) About the Role: This exciting opportunity to take on a senior role in the Library at Flinders University will give you the chance to be part of…
What does generative AI mean for scholarly publishing?
(30 Nov 2024) In a report published today, with funding from STM Solutions and six of its member organizations, we explore how key stakeholders—publishers, technology disruptors, librarians, and scholars—think generative AI…
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