District of Columbia e-Book Fairness Act Signed by Mayor, Defying Corporate...
From the eBook Study Group: The eBook Study Group (ESG) celebrates a historic milestone for public digital access as District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser has officially signed B26-0490, the...
View ArticleJournal Article: “Academic Journals’ AI Policies Fail to Curb the Surge in...
The journal article linked below was published today by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Title Academic Journals’ AI Policies Fail to Curb the Surge in AI-Assisted Academic...
View ArticleConference Paper: “Hallucinations in Scholarly LLMs: A Conceptual Overview...
The paper linked below appears in the Proceedings of the 2nd AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence). Bridge on Artificial Intelligence for Scholarly Communication. Title...
View ArticleConference Paper: “BookReconciler: An Open-Source Tool for Metadata...
The conference paper linked below was shared on arXiv. Title BookReconciler: An Open-Source Tool for Metadata Enrichment and Work-Level Clustering Authors Matt Miller Library of Congress Dan Sinykin...
View ArticleNow Available: 2025 Association for Library and Information Science Education...
The 2025 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Proceedings were recently posted online. Direct links to all items included in the proceedings are linked below. The 2025...
View ArticleJournal Article: “Comparing Conventional and Alternative Mechanisms of...
The article linked below was recently published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Title Comparing Conventional and Alternative Mechanisms of Discovering and Accessing the...
View ArticleConference Paper: “Research on Artificial Intelligence in Libraries”
The paper linked below was presented at the 3rd International Conference on Communication Networks and Machine Learning. Title Research on Artificial Intelligence in Libraries Authors Meiping Wang...
View ArticleMedia Roundup & Court Filings: “US Copyright Office Director Sues Trump...
UPDATE (May 28, 2025) Judge Declines to Immediately Block Trump’s Effort to Fire Register of Copyrights (via Deadline) A federal judge declined to issue an order that would immediately prevent the...
View ArticleReport: “Historians Use Data Science to Mine The Past”
From a Recently Published Article From PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) by Carolyn Beans: Historians today can perform computational tasks as they...
View ArticleJournal Article: “Evidence of a Social Evaluation Penalty For Using AI”
The article linked below was recently published by PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America). Title Evidence of a Social Evaluation Penalty For Using AI...
View ArticleAI/Copyright Lawsuit Roundup: 1) “AI Company Can Seek Fast Appeal in...
Three entries. 1) AI Company Can Seek Fast Appeal in Copyright Battle With Thomson Reuters, Judge Rules Artificial Intelligence company Ross Intelligence can immediately ask an appeals court to review...
View ArticleJournal Article: Search Engine Results and Confirmation Bias
Title The Narrow Search Effect and How Broadening Search Promotes Belief Updating Authors Eugina Leung Tulane University Oleg Urminsky University of Chicago Source Proceedings of the National Academy...
View ArticleRoundup: Top 15 Librarians in Pop Culture; There’s a Good Chance Your Kid...
AI Artificial Intelligence and Communication Technologies in Academia: Faculty Perceptions and the Adoption of Generative AI (via International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education)...
View ArticleNew From NASEM: “U.S. Research Data Summit: Strengthening Cooperation Across...
The document linked below was published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). Title U.S. Research Data Summit: Strengthening Cooperation Across Organizations and...
View ArticleMeeting Proceedings: “Libraries Bridging Boundaries: Challenges & Strategies...
Ed. Note: Slides For All Presentations and Other Materials are Available Here —- The papers listed below were published online on February 17, 2025. The full text of each paper can be accessed clicking...
View ArticleProceedings of a Workshop—in Brief: Publishing in the Age of Open Science
The document linked below was published online by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). Title Publishing in the Age of Open Science—Proceedings of a Workshop About the...
View ArticleJournal Article: “The Misalignment of Incentives in Academic Publishing and...
The article linked below was recently published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). Title The Misalignment of Incentives in Academic...
View ArticleResearch Paper (Preprint): “Suspected Undeclared Use of Artificial...
The preprint linked to below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Suspected Undeclared Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Academic Literature: An Analysis of the Academ-AI Dataset Author Alex Glynn...
View ArticleSage Acquires GOOD DOCS, Distributor of Film Documentaries; The US Patent and...
Alabama ‘Extremists’: Alabama GOP Chair, Anti-Censorship Group Blast Each Other Over Libraries (via AL.com) AI Microsoft Pitches AI ‘Agents’ That Can Perform Tasks on Their Own (via AP) State...
View ArticleUS Copyright Office Issues Updated DMCA Regulations
UPDATES Librarian of Congress Expands DMCA Exemption for Text and Data Mining (by Katherine Klosek, Association of Research Libraries) Text Data Mining Research DMCA Exemption Renewed and Expanded (via...
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