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
Ed. Note: Many thanks to Sage for honoring our request and removing the paywall to this article. Title Citizen Science In Libraries Worldwide: A Systematic Review Authors Dolores Mumelaš National and University Library, Zagreb, Croatia Ivana Matijević National and University Library, Zagreb, Croatia Tomislav Ivanjko National and University Library, Zagreb, Croatia Source Journal of Librarianship […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET
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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
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
What is the stereotype of Japanese animation? Inevitably, and even now too frequently, it is still “Japanese pornographic animation” – the phrasing Susan Napier used for the title of her chapter as far back as 2000, in the essay collection Word and Image in Japanese Cinema. Thinking about this “locally situated transcultural media form” (using […] The post Highlighting New Publications – The Hentai Streaming Platform Wars appeared first on Anime and Manga Studies. The post Highl...| Anime and Manga Studies
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 Rare Book School (University of Virginia): “Collecting Daily Life in Early American Manuscripts” — The 2024 NEH-SHARP Living American History in Primary Documents Lecture by Ashley Cataldo was recorded on July 31, 2024 in Charlottesville, VA. Description The is no doubt the early American manuscript is collectible. From autographs of the Founders to writings […]| Library Journal infoDOCKET