College & Research Libraries News: 2021 ACRL Academic Library Trends and...
Each year, ACRL’s Academic Library Trends and Statistics Survey provides data that can help us understand how academic libraries provide and demonstrate their impact and value to their users,...
View ArticleALA calls for a national day of action to protect the freedom to read,...
The American Library Association (ALA) today announced a national day of action to protect libraries and the freedom to read, designating April 24, the Monday of National Library Week, as Right to Read...
View ArticleHow and why does official information become misinformation? A typology of...
by Hilda Ruokolainen, Gunilla Widén, Eeva-Liisa Eskola Abstract It is important to widen the understanding of misinformation in different contexts. The findings of this qualitative study showed that...
View ArticleWired: The Hacking of ChatGPT Is Just Getting Started
It took Alex Polyakov just a couple of hours to break GPT-4. When OpenAI released the latest version of its text-generating chatbot in March, Polyakov sat down in front of his keyboard and started...
View ArticleEurope’s academic publishing system must become sustainable and equitable
In a statement published on (and dated) April 17, 2023, the Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities has expressed concerns over the unsustainability of the academic publishing system in...
View ArticleBig Ten Academic Alliance and JSTOR announce multi-year agreement for Path to...
The research libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) have entered into a multi-year pilot agreement with JSTOR to support Path to Open, a new cost-effective, sustainable publishing model for...
View ArticleResearch Professional News: EU ready to back immediate open access without...
The EU is ready to agree that immediate open access to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, without authors having to pay fees, and that the bloc should support non-profit...
View ArticleTheme for Open Access Week 2023: Community over Commercialization
“Community over Commercialization” is the theme for this year’s International Open Access Week (October 23-29). This theme encourages a candid conversation about which approaches to open scholarship...
View ArticleKnowledge Unlatched celebrates 10 years of Open Access and announces 2023...
Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the international initiative for Open Access (OA), celebrates a significant milestone as it marks ten years of OA publishing in 2023. To commemorate this achievement, KU is...
View ArticleKnowledge Unlatched announces upcoming regional webinars for librarians; puts...
Knowledge Unlatched (KU) has recently launched a new pledging round. The year 2023 marks a significant milestone for KU as it celebrates ten years of unlatching Open Access (OA) monographs with the...
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