(12 Aug 2024) The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) is seeking to appoint a Board Director who possesses a robust background in the governance of not for profit organisations, who holds governance qualifications, e.g. Graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors, GAICD, or Chartered Member, CMInstD, and who has a proven track record of strategic oversight to…
Government bans researchers from participating in government-funded projects after accusing them of plagiarising content for research proposals (29 Jul 2024) In July, China’s Ministry of Science and Technology published the names of four researchers from institutions across the country who were found to have used plagiarised content in proposals for government-funded research projects. An additional researcher was also named,…
The explosive uptake of generative artificial intelligence in writing is raising difficult questions about when use of the technology should be allowed. (30 Jul 2024) The rapid uptake of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools — which create text in response to prompts — has raised questions about whether this constitutes plagiarism and under what…
(31 Jul 2024) At Casual Poet Library, opening in August, every shelf is rented to an individual wanting to loan their books for free. Its founder Rebecca Toh wasn’t sure people would embrace the idealism and “impracticality” of a community-funded library – but she was proven wrong. Find out more here.
Copyright Clearance Center’s AI re-use rights offer stands in its Annual Copyright Licenses subscription program for ‘millions of works.’ (16 Jul 2024) Even as lawsuits and tense exchanges go on around unlicensed use of copyrighted content to train their LLMs (large language models), the United States-based Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) today (July 16) has announced a…
(2 Jul 2024) The recording and indexing of research plays a vital role in how it can be found and used, but what happens when the output from a research project is not a written document, but a performance, series of events or an artistic work? Holly Ranger, Jenny Evans andAdam Vials Moore discuss findings from…
(25 Jul 2024) A great opportunity to join the Collection Services team with a key focus on library subscriptions and acquisitions. You may also work in other collection services areas such as eReserve, Inter-library loans, Institutional Repository and metadata. Individuals who have experience in the above areas, with well-developed communication skills, attention to detail and…
(4 Jul 2024) The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has transitioned to open-access information model. The OECD began granting greater access to its data with the launch of its data portal and platform integration in 2014, notably making publications freely available to read online. The introduction of the Creative Commons CC-BY-4.0 licence now…
Martin Gengenbach, Digital Preservation Policy and Outreach Specialist, shares the work and aspirations of the library mahi to preserve digital cultural heritage. (17 Jul 2024) Preserving the digital cultural heritage of Aotearoa New Zealand means taking the long view: thinking about how old, current, and new generations of technology are used to create, and…
(18 Jul 2024) From June 11-13, 2024, 175 persistent identifier (PID) enthusiasts from around the world gathered in Prague for the first PIDfest, with a further 100 joining virtually. Billed as “a three-day international summit of talks, activities and workshops focusing on how persistent identifiers can deliver world-class research infrastructure,” it was also something of a…