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Libraries continue to sign Transformative Agreements while becoming increasingly convinced that they do not represent the desired transformation. Peter Barr explains why this happens.
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The ORCID US consortium, managed by Lyrasis, is five years old in 2023 - hear about their progress so far and plans for the future in Alice Meadows' interview with their PID Program Leader, Sheila Raybun
The post The ORCID US Consortium at Five: What’s Worked, What Hasn’t, and Why? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is celebrating its 10-year anniversary, a great opportunity to reflect on how far we have come with open infrastructures for the distribution and discoverability of open access books (monographs, edited collections, and other long-form publications).
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Last month, a school district committee in Utah decided that the Bible should be removed from elementary and middle school libraries.
Amanda Gorman reciting a poem during the inauguration.
A Federal judge's ruling offered a stern rebuke of the Internet Archive's National Emergency Library and its controlled digital lending service, providing a significant victory for the four publishers that had filed suit.
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On Friday, the Internet Archive lost its "controlled digital lending" case on summary judgment. Reactions today from our Chefs Rick Anderson, Joseph Esposito, Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Roy Kaufman, Roger C. Schonfeld, and Karin Wulf.
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Is the OA movement painting itself into a corner with concerns about new OA rules and regulations?
The post The Ivies (Plus) Have Concerns about the Nelson OSTP Memo appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
Alan Harvey from Stanford University Press discusses their evolving strategy in turbulent times.
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In my latest newsletter, I wrote about becoming obsessed with Roget’s Thesaurus, after realizing that every thesaurus I’d ever picked up was alphabetical, and alphabetizing a thesaurus basically destroys the meaning behind what Roget was trying to do.
“We tend to think of a thesaurus as a collection of synonyms and antonyms,” writes Roget’s biographer, Joshua Kendell. “But Roget’s is essentially a reverse dictionary. With a dictionary, the user looks up a word to find its meaning. With Roget’s, the user starts with an idea and then keeps flipping through the book until he finds the word that best expresses it.”
Read it here.
A visit to another of the world's fascinating archives, this time to Australia's Library of Air.
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In preparation for a presentation, Curtis Kendrick tried ChatGPT to see what it (they?) had to say. The results at first seemed credible, but where ChatGPT failed miserably was in the non-existent citations it provided.
The post Guest Post — The Efficacy of ChatGPT: Is it Time for the Librarians to Go Home? appeared first on The Scholarly Kitchen.
Two Colorado libraries – one in Boulder and one in the Denver suburb of Englewood — have had to temporarily close down within the last month to scrub away methamphetamine contamination. Meth residue "exceeded state thresholds," said a city spokesperson, and was found on surfaces in the libraries' restrooms and elsewhere, including in the ducts, on walls, and on countertops. — Read the rest
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