"Evaluating the Efficacy of ChatGPT-4 in Providing Scientific References across Diverse Disciplines"


This work conducts a comprehensive exploration into the proficiency of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 in sourcing scientific references within an array of research disciplines. Our in-depth analysis encompasses a wide scope of fields including Computer Science (CS), Mechanical Engineering (ME), Electrical Engineering (EE), Biomedical Engineering (BME), and Medicine, as well as their more specialized sub-domains. Our empirical findings indicate a significant variance in ChatGPT-4’s performance across these disciplines. Notably, the validity rate of suggested articles in CS, BME, and Medicine surpasses 65%, whereas in the realms of ME and EE, the model fails to verify any article as valid. Further, in the context of retrieving articles pertinent to niche research topics, ChatGPT-4 tends to yield references that align with the broader thematic areas as opposed to the narrowly defined topics of interest. This observed disparity underscores the pronounced variability in accuracy across diverse research fields, indicating the potential requirement for model refinement to enhance its functionality in academic research. Our investigation offers valuable insights into the current capacities and limitations of AI-powered tools in scholarly research, thereby emphasizing the indispensable role of human oversight and rigorous validation in leveraging such models for academic pursuits.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09914v1

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MS Digital Library Coordinator at University of Southern Mississippi


The MDL Coordinator is responsible for the curation, management, and promotion of MDL collections, ensuring the accessibility and discoverability of valuable cultural and historical resources. The coordinator collaborates with partner institutions, contributes to digitization efforts, manages metadata, and contributes to the overall growth and impact of the MDL.

https://tinyurl.com/5xp8cu88

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"The Value of a Diamond: Understanding Global Coverage of Diamond Open Access Journals in Web of Science, Scopus, and OpenAlex to Support an Open Future"


Diamond OA journals present a publishing model that is free for both authors and readers, but their lack of indexing in major bibliographic databases such as Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus presents challenges in assessing the usage of these journals. This paper provides a global picture of the coverage of diamond OA journals from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in three data sources. Results show their low coverage in WoS and Scopus and higher coverage in OpenAlex, as well as the generally smaller and local scope of diamond OA journals.

https://tinyurl.com/2mt9sydd

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Digital Asset Specialist at Smith College


The Digital Asset Specialist supports the creation, collection, organization, and use of digital assets, including images, videos, 3D models, web content, data visualizations, and other related materials for teaching and scholarship. Working as part of a collaborative team in the Imaging Center, they manage daily operations of digital asset production and instruction while stewarding the lifecycle of existing collections. They support campus-wide pedagogical use of digital assets through collaborations with the Art Department, Art Museum, College Libraries and others.

https://tinyurl.com/2p9y9a9k

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"Open(ing) Access: Top Health Publication Availability to Researchers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries"


Introduction: Improving access to information for health professionals and researchers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is under-prioritized. This study examines publication policies that affect authors and readers from LMICs.

Methods: We used the SHERPA RoMEO database and publicly available publishing protocols to evaluate open access (OA) policies, article processing charges (APCs), subscription costs, and availability of health literature relevant to authors and readers in LMICs. Categorical variables were summarized using frequencies with percentages. Continuous variables were reported with median and interquartile range (IQR). Hypothesis testing procedures were performed using Wilcoxon rank sum tests, Wilcoxon rank sum exact tests, and Kruskal-Wallis test.

Results: A total of 55 journals were included; 6 (11%) were Gold OA (access to readers and large charge for authors), 2 (3.6%) were subscription (charge for readers and small/no charge for authors), 4 (7.3%) were delayed OA (reader access with no charge after embargo), and 43 (78%) were hybrid (author’s choice). There was no significant difference between median APC for life sciences, medical, and surgical journals ($4,850 [$3,500–$8,900] vs. $4,592 [$3,500–$5,000] vs. $3,550 [$3,200–$3,860]; p = 0.054). The median US individual subscription costs (USD/Year) were significantly different for life sciences, medical, and surgical journals ($259 [$209–$282] vs. $365 [$212–$744] vs. $455 [$365–$573]; p = 0.038), and similar for international readers. A total of seventeen journals (42%) had a subscription price that was higher for international readers than for US readers.

Conclusions: Most journals offer hybrid access services. Authors may be forced to choose between high cost with greater reach through OA and low cost with less reach publishing under the subscription model under current policies. International readers face higher costs. Such hindrances may be mitigated by a greater awareness and liberal utilization of OA policies.

https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.3904

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Director of Digital and Scholarly Initiatives at Texas A&M University


The Librarian Director will direct the development and implementation of library data and scholarly initiatives, programs, and services supporting faculty and students at Texas A&M University Colleges, Schools, and Agencies. In addition, this position will direct the dissemination of new scholarly communication information, data visualizations, repository opportunities and changes to key performance indicators (KPIs). The Librarian Director will lead in training and staff development on scholarly and data related methods and policies using a variety of information tools, software applications, resources, copyright, data management, and maintaining a strong repository and digital presence.

https://tinyurl.com/twm8ztc2

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"Scholarly Recommendation Systems: A Literature Survey"


A scholarly recommendation system is an important tool for identifying prior and related resources such as literature, datasets, grants, and collaborators. A well-designed scholarly recommender significantly saves the time of researchers and can provide information that would not otherwise be considered. The usefulness of scholarly recommendations, especially literature recommendations, has been established by the widespread acceptance of web search engines such as CiteSeerX, Google Scholar, and Semantic Scholar. This article discusses different aspects and developments of scholarly recommendation systems. We searched the ACM Digital Library, DBLP, IEEE Explorer, and Scopus for publications in the domain of scholarly recommendations for literature, collaborators, reviewers, conferences and journals, datasets, and grant funding. In total, 225 publications were identified in these areas. We discuss methodologies used to develop scholarly recommender systems. Content-based filtering is the most commonly applied technique, whereas collaborative filtering is more popular among conference recommenders. The implementation of deep learning algorithms in scholarly recommendation systems is rare among the screened publications. We found fewer publications in the areas of the dataset and grant funding recommenders than in other areas. Furthermore, studies analyzing users’ feedback to improve scholarly recommendation systems are rare for recommenders. This survey provides background knowledge regarding existing research on scholarly recommenders and aids in developing future recommendation systems in this domain.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-023-01901-x

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Supervisory Information Technology Specialist at Library of Congress


This position will assist in the development and implementation of technical strategy to develop and sustain a reliable set of production systems supporting critical functions of the Digital Library Services (DLS) platform. DLS is a suite of tools used by a variety of users both internal and external to the Library to ingest, manage, store, and provide access to the Library’s digital collections. This position will lead a team of technicians developing new system features supporting content management, reporting, workflow, metadata, and web/API access to the Library’s collections. They will lead their team in maintaining and supporting existing applications implemented in both on-premises and cloud platforms with integrations across multiple systems.

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/731246500

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Head of Systems & Service Development at King’s College London


You will lead the Systems & Service Development team to develop and manage various systems and digital services (e.g. access to digital collections) and to facilitate continuous improvement and service development. With the Associate Director for Service Design & Delivery, you will collaborate with IT colleagues to drive forward our plans to enable strategy through technology.

https://tinyurl.com/54pwh7ky

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Scholarly Podcasting Why, What, How?


Featuring interviews with 101 podcasting academics, including scholars and teachers of podcasting, this book explores the motivations of scholarly podcasters, interrogates what podcasting does to academic knowledge, and leads potential podcasters through the creation process from beginning to end. With scholarship often trapped inside expensive journals, wrapped in opaque language, and laced with a standoffish tone, this book analyses the implications of moving towards a more open and accessible form.

https://tinyurl.com/mr3b9bew

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"European Lawmakers Vote to Adopt EU AI Act"


European Union lawmakers have passed the EU AI Act that will govern use and deployment of artificial intelligence technology within the EU. . . . Changes introduced by MEPs to the original commission draft act include some top-level regulation of general-purpose AI tools such as ChatGPT. These foundation models will require mandatory labelling for AI-generated content and the forced disclosure of training data covered by copyright. . . . . Other changes include a fine-tuned list of prohibited practices, extended to include subliminal techniques, biometric categorisation, predictive policing, and internet-scraped facial recognition databases.

https://tinyurl.com/nhet5ckd

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Digital Imaging Manager at Stanford University


This position will lead, develop, and execute digital media production assignments requiring advanced level skills from original concept through final implementation with limited oversight. Partner with internal and external clients including senior leaders and faculty regarding digital media projects and services. Serve as an in-house digital media expert for a school/unit with time contribution split between project leadership and as a technical contributor.

https://tinyurl.com/yn5nuzmj

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ACRL: "2022 Academic Library Trends and Statistics Data Now Available"


Key findings include:

  • Of the libraries that have sought to hire new employees in the past year, 56% report that the candidate pool is smaller than pre-Covid levels, while only 30% say it is the same size or larger.
  • 60.7% of library employees have the option to work remotely in some capacity, whether it be full-time, hybrid, a compressed work week or flexible hours and locations.
  • Since 2017, the average number of digital/electronic book titles in library collections has changed from 315,213 to 619,805, an increase of 96.6%.
  • The average number of FTE libraries has remained steady in the last three years. In both 2020 and 2021 the average was 11, while the 2022 average is 12.

https://tinyurl.com/53a6pw6v

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Digital Imaging Specialist at The Library of Congress


Manages projects, designs and executes plans and methodologies; leads other staff assigned to projects; documents results and makes resulting recommendations. Suggests improvements to workflows for a wide variety of content streams and identifies risks and challenges to implementation. Establishes priorities and time-frames in coordination with management and stakeholders. Independently implements approved plans by scheduling and coordinating work, including determining division of work amongst specialists and technicians assigned to a project.

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/730002000

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Japanese Preprint Server: "Guest Post — A Year of Jxiv — Warming the Preprints Stone"


However, this anomaly was corrected with the launch in March 2022 of Jxiv — the first fully-fledged Japanese-born preprint server — by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), one of the largest public funders of research in the country that sits under the administrative and policy behemoth, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). . . . JST also manages J-STAGE, the national online platform for Japanese journals launched in 1999, which hosts more than 3,500 journals containing almost 5.38 million articles, as well as J-STAGE Data launched in 2020.

https://tinyurl.com/388vd3y3

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Associate Head, Data & Visualization Services at NC State University


The Associate Head, Data & Visualization Services shares management responsibility for the department, helping to set departmental goals and objectives and to foster a collaborative, motivating, and creative work environment. They oversee, promote, and directly participate in the department’s instruction program and workshop series, including teaching sessions in collaboration with course faculty and Libraries colleagues. In addition, the Associate Head supervises at least one staff member, while also offering training and guidance to all members of the DVS team on relevant areas of expertise.

https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/185272

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University of Hawaii at Manoa: Needs Assessment for Data Management and Sharing Training Courses


Data management is an increasingly fundamental skill for graduate students and researchers in the biomedical sciences, especially as National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other funding agencies are now beginning to require data management and sharing plans as part of research. Since the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) Library provided little support for this area and existing data management and sharing instructional content are either out of date or fail to address the unique needs of the UHM research community, the UHM Library took steps to establish data management and sharing instruction services to meet the specific needs of the UHM research community.

https://hdl.handle.net/10125/104944

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Director, Digital Libraries and Preservation at Virginia Tech


Under the general direction of the Assistant Dean & Director of IT, the Director of Digital Libraries and Preservation is responsible for the strategic management and development of Virginia Tech’s comprehensive digital libraries and preservation program. They work collaboratively with stakeholders to plan and design the future of digital libraries and preservation services. The Director ensures efficient execution of technology-based projects, considering emerging trends and advancements, including the impact of AI, to advance cutting-edge digital libraries and preservation services.

https://tinyurl.com/bdf85d6m

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"Should Academic Libraries Worry about Futureproofing?"


The what and how are at the heart of a new question we introduced in the latest cycle of the 2022 Ithaka S+R Library Survey. Nestled among questions about value proposition and strategic prioritization, we asked library deans and directors to indicate their level of agreement with the statement that their "library has a clear vision for futureproofing that takes into account technological and socio-political trends."

Sixteen percent of respondents indicated a high level of agreement with this statement (ratings 8-10). Sixty-four percent neither strongly agreed or disagreed (ratings of 4-7), and 20 percent strongly disagreed (ratings of 1-3). Figures 1 and 2 below show that there aren’t any particularly stark differences across Carnegie class, or sector.

https://tinyurl.com/229wsnvs

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"The Platformisation of Scholarly Information and How to Fight It"


The commercial control of academic publishing and research infrastructure by a few oligopolistic companies has crippled the development of open access movement and interfered with the ethical principles of information access and privacy. In recent years, vertical integration of publishers and other service providers throughout the research cycle has led to platformisation, characterized by datafication and commodification similar to practices on social media platforms. Scholarly publications are treated as user-generated contents for data tracking and surveillance, resulting in profitable data products and services for research assessment, benchmarking and reporting. Meanwhile, the bibliodiversity and equal open access are denied by the dominant gold open access model and the privacy of researchers is being compromised by spyware embedded in research infrastructure. This article proposes four actions to fight the platformisation of scholarly information after a brief overview of the market of academic journals and research assessments and their implications for bibliodiversity, information access, and privacy: (1) Educate researchers about commercial publishers and APCs; (2) Allocate library budget to support scholar-led and library publishing; (3) Engage in the development of public research infrastructures and copyright reform; and (4) Advocate for research assessment reforms.

https://doi.org/10.53377/lq.13561

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Systems Administrator at Michigan State University


Reporting to the Library Systems Manager III, the Systems Administrator will be responsible for Linux server administration, which includes the provision, configuring and deployment of Linux server environments; application administration, which includes configuring, deployment, and maintaining of server-based applications, as well as providing support for and troubleshooting system hardware and software issues; and customer support.

https://tinyurl.com/3nftfs3k

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"DataChat: Prototyping a Conversational Agent for Dataset Search and Visualization"


Data users need relevant context and research expertise to effectively search for and identify relevant datasets. Leading data providers, such as the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), offer standardized metadata and search tools to support data search. Metadata standards emphasize the machine-readability of data and its documentation. There are opportunities to enhance dataset search by improving users’ ability to learn about, and make sense of, information about data. Prior research has shown that context and expertise are two main barriers users face in effectively searching for, evaluating, and deciding whether to reuse data. In this paper, we propose a novel chatbot-based search system, DataChat, that leverages a graph database and a large language model to provide novel ways for users to interact with and search for research data. DataChat complements data archives’ and institutional repositories’ ongoing efforts to curate, preserve, and share research data for reuse by making it easier for users to explore and learn about available research data.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18358

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Digital Preservation Archivist at Southern Methodist University


Reporting to the Digital Preservation Librarian/Institutional Repository Manager, the Digital Preservation Archivist will be responsible for processing and cataloging born-digital material that has been donated and/or acquired by SMU Libraries and its special collection subunits, as well as digital assets created by SMU Libraries’ Norwick Center for Digital Solutions and housed in SMU Scholar, SMU’s institutional repository and ContentDM, SMU’s digital collections repository. They will support the development and adoption of digital preservation workflows and technology.

https://tinyurl.com/25athxt3

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"Is Googling Risky? A Study on Risk Perception and Experiences of Adverse Consequences in Web Search"


Search engines, such as Google, have a considerable impact on society. Therefore, undesirable consequences, such as retrieving incorrect search results, pose a risk to users. Although previous research has reported the adverse outcomes of web search, little is known about how search engine users evaluate those outcomes. In this study, we show which aspects of web search are perceived as risky using a sample (N = 3884) representative of the German Internet population. We found that many participants are often concerned with adverse consequences immediately appearing on the search engine result page. For example, 45.2% of respondents are concerned about retrieving incorrect information. In contrast, consequences with a delayed impact are rarely perceived as a risk. Moreover, participants’ experiences with adverse consequences are directly related to their risk perception. Our results demonstrate that people perceive risks related to web search. In addition to our study, there is a need for more independent research on the possible detrimental outcomes of web search to monitor and mitigate risks. Apart from risks for individuals, search engines with a massive number of users have an extraordinary impact on society; therefore, the acceptable risks of web search should be discussed.

https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24802

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Head of Technology Services, University Libraries at University at Buffalo


The Head of Technology Services will serve in a strategic planning and leadership capacity in directing the planning and development of the University at Buffalo Libraries’ digital collection and repository infrastructure. This includes supporting and overseeing information technology operations related to end user services, network operations, information security, library network monitoring, and library systems. The Head of Technology Services will also be responsible for the oversight of the core library operations such as the integrated library Alma-Primo system, the interlibrary loan application OCLC ILLiad, and customized applications for Discovery, Delivery and E-Resources.

https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/43204

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