(17 Sep 2026) The National Library of Korea is releasing 38.33 million AI learning datasets, processed from the library’s national document collection, to the public for the first time. The library announced that, starting September 17, it will make available via the “Gongyoo Seojae” platform a total of 3,974 text datasets, 21,485 image datasets—including…
(29 Sep 2026) Library and influencer: two words you’d probably never expect to see together. But today’s libraries and librarians are turning to social media to connect with their community in direct – and often hilarious – ways. Unexpected stars include a 72-year-old rare books librarian in Queensland and a career librarian in suburban Adelaide, both…
(21 Sep 2026) The National Library of Malaysia (PNM) could establish a ‘Repositori Digital Cerita Malaysia’ (Digital Repository of Malaysian Stories) as a national digital archive to ensure that stories shaping the country’s identify are preserved and passed down to future generations. National Unity Minister Datuk Aaron Ago Dagang said the repository could systematically compile…
(22 Sep 2026) A series of photos and videos of a giant ‘library’ in Ho Chi Minh City have gone viral on social media in recent days, drawing crowds of visitors eager to check in. Many were left disappointed after discovering that the space was actually a real estate model used to showcase and promote…
(14 Sep 2026) The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has released a new issue paper, Large Scale Digitization in the AI Era: Issues and Model Terms for Libraries and Their Partners, addressing the growing number of proposals to digitize library collections at scale for potential use in commercial artificial intelligence and other proprietary services. Large-scale…
(22 Sep 2026) Hundreds of academic journals that launched as free to publish in and free to read have ended up switching to a fee-charging model, according to a study that examined the fate of titles using the diamond open-access (OA) model. The analysis, published as a preprint earlier this year1, identified 440 titles that…
(21 Sep 2026) The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Institute of Science & Technology Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP) announced on September 20 that they had prepared the “National R&D AI Research Ethics Guide,” which includes these provisions. The guide targets principal investigators, co-researchers, and student researchers participating in national research and development (R&D).…
(28 Sep 2026) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched Linked Discoveries, an experimental tool designed to help researchers better understand how individual scientific findings connect to the broader body of biomedical evidence. The platform allows users to explore networks of related publications directly from articles indexed in PubMed, including studies that replicate or build…
(16 Sep 2026) CABI has published its first artificial intelligence‑ready datasets on Hugging Face, a global platform for sharing machine learning models, datasets, and AI resources. The datasets were developed under the Generative AI for Agriculture (GAIA) project, which aims to make agricultural knowledge more accessible to developers building AI tools. The GAIA project…
(16 Sep 2026) PREreview was launched in 2017 as a resource for the collaborative review of preprints. Its mission today is “to bring greater openness and equity to research peer review by empowering all researchers and experts to participate in reviewing preprints and other research outputs with the tools and community support they need to…