(28 May 2024) Over the past year, Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) has been conducting a rigorous investigation into the State of Open Infrastructure, including characteristics of open infrastructure, funding, governance, adoption, and policy development. Today we are proud to share the results of that work. The report provides exclusive data and analysis from this…
(29 May 2024) Some of the most infamous so-called shadow libraries have increasingly faced legal pressure to either stop pirating books or risk being shut down or driven to the dark web. Among the biggest targets are Z-Library, which the US Department of Justice has charged with criminal copyright infringement, and Library Genesis (Libgen), which was sued by…
(30 May 2024) Textbook prices have almost tripled over the past four decades, turning these books into financial burdens. Moving from print to digital college textbooks was supposed to address the problem. But it seems to create more problems than it was expected to solve. Find out more here.
(24 May 2024) LIBER is pleased to announce the launch of the Citizen Science guide for research libraries Open Science Meets Citizen Science edited by Bastian Greshake Tzovaras of The Alan Turing Institute. This is the third section of the guide series Citizen Science for Research Libraries. The guide series is brought to you by the LIBER Citizen Science Working Group. This…
(30 May 2024) Auckland Libraries will no longer print identifiable names on paper slips due to privacy concerns. The largest library network in the country changed its hold pick-up process to an anonymized collections system this week. Holds are now placed on numbered shelves in the pick-up area of every Auckland library. Customers will…
(28 May 2024) A digital learning object (DLO) on the effective and responsible use of AI tools in research was jointly developed by Singapore Management University (SMU) Libraries and Temasek Polytechnic (TP) Library. Launched in the last quarter of 2023, this DLO served to fill a then-immediate gap in 2023 when AI tools such as…
(24 May 2024) More than three-quarters of researchers use some form of artificial intelligence (AI) tool in their research, despite having concerns about data security, intellectual property rights and AI’s effectiveness, a new report finds. An Oxford University Press (OUP) survey released Thursday found that 76 percent of the 2,345 respondents use an AI tool when conducting…
(22 May 2024) As the competition between artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots intensifies, researchers in China are making progress on building Chinese-language AI models. The leading Chinese offerings include ChatGLM, which comes close to ChatGPT on some capabilities and outperforms it in Chinese, according to its developers. “Basically, ChatGLM is a ChatGPT alternative,” said Jie Tang,…
(28 May 2024) Over the weekend, the AI Overviews that Google announced at its developer conference made international headlines — but not for the reasons the company hoped for. Across Threads, Bluesky, and X, users encountering the company’s AI-generated summaries atop search results found over and over again that Google was hallucinating or worse. …
(24 Apr 2024) Since the Great Recession, librarians have learned as best they can to manage an annual serials subscription model that inevitably outpaced flat or declining collection budgets. Many librarians lauded the development of Open Access (OA) publishing models, which offered, at least initially, to help solve the problem of an unsustainable and inequitable scholarly…