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From the Idaho Capital Sun: National book publishers, authors, the Donnelly Public Library, and a handful of Idaho parents and students sued the Idaho officials on Tuesday to block the state’s library materials law. [Plaintiffs include: Penguin Random House; Hachette Book Group; Harpercollins Publishers; Macmillan Publishing Group; Simon & Schuster; Sourcebooks; The Authors Guild; Donnelly Public Library District;  & Others] […]

From Nature: Using artificial intelligence (AI) tools for processes such as preparing manuscripts, writing grant applications and peer review will become widely accepted within the next two years, suggests a survey of nearly 5,000 researchers in more than 70 countries by the publishing company Wiley. The survey asked researchers how they are currently using generative AI […]

From a Joint Release: The Research Data Alliance-United States (RDA-US) and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced today their intent to collaborate in the development of an ANSI/NISO standard for a US national Persistent Identifier (PID) strategy. The Working Group formed to achieve this goal will operate within NISO’s standards development structure. Persistent identifiers, or […]

From 404 Media: Low quality books that appear to be AI generated are making their way into public libraries via their digital catalogs, forcing librarians who are already understaffed to either sort through a functionally infinite number of books to determine what is written by humans and what is generated by AI, or to spend […]

From UMD Today: Indigenous researchers often face significant barriers when seeking records of their communities: outdated catalog systems, inaccessible descriptions and limited access to materials of deep cultural and historical significance. The University of Maryland is taking a groundbreaking step to address these challenges with a new $3.6 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. The […]

From JISC: Jisc has today published open data about research management: a landscape review, outlining the current status of open data about research management in the UK. The report emphasises the potential of open data to increase efficiency, reduce administrative burdens and improve the potential for innovation across UK research. The bureaucracy review digital working […]

Arkansas Arkansas Senator Seeks to Abolish Atate Library and PBS Oversight Boards (via Arkansas Advocate) Fired Library Director Sues Central Arkansas County, Alleging Retaliation and First Amendment Breach (via Arkansas Advocate) California Radio Program: The Battle Against Book Bans in San Diego County(via KPBS) Digital Preservation As the Trump Admin Deletes Online Data, Scientists and […]

The article (approved for publication manuscript) linked below was recently posted by the journal, Pain Medicine. Title Building Community Through Data: The Value of a Researcher Driven Open Science Ecosystem Authors Meredith C B Adams, MD, MS, et al. (17 co-authors) Source Pain Medicine DOI 10.1093/pm/pnaf003 From the Article Exponential scientific data growth presents challenges […]

From The Verge: OpenAI has revealed another new agentic feature for ChatGPT called deep research, which it says can operate autonomously to “plan and execute a multi-step trajectory to find the data it needs, backtracking and reacting to real-time information where necessary.” Instead of simply generating text, it shows a summary of its process in a […]