From the Research Data Alliance (RDA) White Paper: The Research Data Alliance (RDA) organised workshops on 15 and 20 May 2025, to demonstrate the RDA’s policy impact and encourage implementation of RDA recommendations and outputs in different policy contexts. The workshops focused on critical policy areas that form essential research infrastructure including National Persistent Identifier […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
The preprint linked below was recently posted on arXiv. Title DeepScholar-Bench: A Live Benchmark and Automated Evaluation for Generative Research Synthesis Authors Liana Patel Stanford University Negar Arabzadeh UC Berkeley Harshit Gupta Stanford University Ankita Sundar UC Berkeley Ion Stoica UC Berkeley Matei Zaharia UC Berkeley Carlos Guestrin Stanford University Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2508.20033 […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
Ed. Note: For the many Ai2 users already out there: Paperfinder is part of the Asta ecosystem. It’s now the “Find Papers” tool/service. ScholarQA is also part of the Asta ecosystem. It’s the “Summarize Literature” tool/service. From Ai2: Today we announce Asta, our bold initiative to accelerate science by building trustworthy and capable agentic assistants […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
From AAP: Today, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) released the StatShot Annual report covering the calendar year 2024, estimating that the U.S. publishing industry generated a robust $32.5 billion in aggregate publishing revenue for books and course materials across print and digital formats, an increase of 4.1% as compared to $31.3 billion in 2023. “This […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
From Anthropic: The most prominent use of AI, as revealed by both our Claude.ai analysis and our qualitative research with Northeastern, was for curriculum development. Our Claude.ai analysis also surfaced academic research and assessing student performance as the second and third most common uses. In our surveys, Northeastern faculty reported that another common case was […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
From a UC3 Post: At UC3, several of our latest initiatives involve integrating AI tools, with a particular focus on improving metadata and assisting researchers with creating best practice DMPs. [Clip] One key application of AI we are exploring is enhancing the quality and scale of our metadata curation activities, including those for the Research […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
From CNI: We invite you to explore the summer 2025 edition of CNI’s Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series. This collection comprises contributions covering a range of topics, including open infrastructure, digital literacy, identity management, and more. Several sessions report on community-driven efforts to examine how emerging technologies and external pressures are shaping the research and higher education ecosystem. […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
Here’s the Complete Statement From NIH: As part of its ongoing commitment to scientific transparency and responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced plans to implement a new policy that will cap how much publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their research findings publicly accessible. This initiative reflects […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
From a Computers in Libraries Article by Michael Blackwell, Jennie Rose Halperin, Catherine Mason, and Carmi Parker: In 2018, Rebecca Giblin and her colleagues created the E-lending Project, measuring in various studies the availability, license terms, and prices of digital titles in Australia. Additionally, using one library vendor, it internationally compared digital findings to print in […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
The article linked below was published today (June 16, 2025) by Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL). Title Prospects of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for Academic Library Search and Retrieval Authors Ravi Varma Kumar Bevara Department of Information Science, University of North Texas Brady D. Lund Department of Information Science, University of North Texas Nishith Reddy […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
Title Automation of Systematic Reviews with Large Language Models Authors Christian Cao (University of Toronto), Et al. Source medRxiv (June 13, 2025) DOI: 10.1101/2025.06.13.25329541 Abstract Systematic reviews (SRs) inform evidence-based decision making. Yet, they take over a year to complete, are prone to human error, and face challenges with reproducibility; limiting access to timely and […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
From the Associated Press: Nearly one million books published as early as the 15th century — and in 254 languages — are part of a Harvard University collection being released to AI researchers Thursday. Also coming soon are troves of old newspapers and government documents held by Boston’s public library. [Clip] “It is a prudent […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
From a NISO Release (Full Text): Last month, NISO convened two workshops to explore how the scholarly communication community can collectively respond to challenges arising from the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in publishing and content distribution infrastructure. The workshops brought together participants from publishing houses, platform developers, and research technology teams to focus on […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
From an ACRL Announcement: ACRL announces the publication of The Open Science Cookbook, edited by Emily Bongiovanni, Melanie Gainey, Chasz Griego, and Lencia McKee, a collection of lesson plans and activities for supporting openly accessible, reproducible research. [Clip] The Open Science Cookbook provides a wide variety of lesson plans and learning activities for supporting […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
The article linked below was published today the PLOS Global Public Health. Title Gender Pay Gaps and Inequity at Science Publishers Authors Jocalyn ClarkThe BMJ Elizabeth ZuccalaMedical Journal of Australia Source PLOS Global Public Health, 5(6): e0004673 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0004673 From the Article: The world’s largest science publishers wield enormous influence – publishing research and commentary […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
The article (abstract only) linked below was published today by Nature Human Behaviour. Title An Empirical Investigation of the Impact of ChatGPT on Creativity Authors Byung Cheol Lee University of Houston Jaeyeon (Jae) Chung University of Houston Source Nature Human Behaviour (2024) DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01953-1 Abstract This paper investigates the potential of ChatGPT for helping humans […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
From the CBC: A trove of documents detailing more than two centuries of tornado events in Canada is now available to anyone with an internet connection. The files were housed in Environment Canada’s archives, and have been digitized and posted online as part of a multi-year project spearheaded by the Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) at […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET