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“Navigating Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Integration in Library and Information Science: Insights from Four National Libraries”

This chapter examines the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and data science in library and information science, using insights from four national libraries: the British Library, the National Library of France, the Royal Library of Belgium, and the Royal Danish Library. . . . This study adopts a qualitative approach, drawing on in-depth interviews with key personnel and analyses of strategic documents to explore the challenges and opportunities posed by AI. The findings highlight critical organizational issues such as resistance to change, cross-departmental collaboration, resource allocation, and the need for skill development.

https://tinyurl.com/2s4ahcta

“Introducing Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Publishing: A Case Study”

[This chapter] shares how this [diamond open access] library publishing service came to be, and what it does, how, and why for two reasons: to inform readers about the practice of library publishing and to help libraries that want to publish books but are unsure how since overviews of similar library publishing services are lacking.

https://tinyurl.com/4cu4k5pm

Reclaiming Academic Ownership of the Scholarly Communication System: Reclaiming Academic Ownership of the Scholarly Communication System

Sharing and publishing research results is a fundamental part of research and knowledge production. This process relies on critical examination and discussion of the fndings. Historically, the primary goals of scholarly communication were to disseminate, exchange and preserve knowledge through the publication of academic journals and books. Today’s scholarly communication system has increasingly diverged from these original purposes and drifted away from the needs of the communities it is meant to serve. It now presents significant flaws and ineffciencies. It ignores bibliodiversity and multilingualism, imposes high costs on researchers and research performing organisations, restricts the rapid and wide dissemination of research results and (through its structure and operation) threatens core academic values such as trust and integrity.

This briefing describes the current status of academic publishing, highlighting the main factors shaping the system and the key challenges faced by the academic community. It also identifies opportunities for universities to play a leading role in shaping the future of scholarly communication. The active engagement of universities and other stakeholders is key to achieving a just scholarly publishing ecosystem that is transparent, diverse, affordable, sustainable, technically interoperable, and steered by the research community, as outlined in the EUA Open Science Agenda 2025.

https://tinyurl.com/325n6swr

Scholarly Communications Librarian at University of Cincinnati

Reporting to the Associate Dean for Research & Instruction, the Scholarly Communications Librarian is responsible for leading library publishing services and developing scholarly communication programs and services to advance open access through sustainable publishing models. This role requires an energetic professional with expertise in scholarly communications, a strong commitment to access to knowledge, and the ability to foster collaborations across stakeholders.

https://tinyurl.com/mu2htxzf

“Managing Retractions and their Afterlife: A Tripartite Framework for Research Datasets”

Retractions serve as a critical, albeit last-resort, post-publication correction mechanism in scholarly publishing, playing an important role in upholding the integrity of the scientific record. By formally retracting flawed or misleading research, the scientific community mitigates the harm caused by errors or misconduct that may have escaped detection during peer review. While retractions of research articles have been extensively discussed across scientific disciplines and are well-integrated into most publishers’ workflows, the retraction of research datasets remains underexplored and rarely implemented. This paper seeks to address this gap by reviewing recent developments in this area, analyzing a sample of publicly available retracted dataset records considering existing recommendations and guidelines, and putting forward a few points for discussion—particularly for cases where datasets have been published and correction is no longer feasible, or when all efforts to amend the dataset have been exhausted. These considerations are framed into three main categories: (1) preventive actions and timely response, (2) purposeful damage control, and (3) community engagement and shared standards. Although still preliminary, this framework aims to help entertain future debates and inform actionable strategies for addressing the unique challenges of managing retracted datasets where scientific rigor has been compromised. By contributing to the discussion on dataset retractions, this work seeks to better equip data curators, repository managers, and other stakeholders with tools to enhance accountability and transparency throughout the data preservation process, while also helping to mitigate the error cascade effect in science.

https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v19i1.1062

Open Strategies Librarian at Northern Kentucky University

This teaching professor faculty position is responsible for leading, sustaining, and developing new course material affordability programs, including an established Open Educational Resource ( OER ) program. As part of the Library Access Services team, the Open Strategies Librarian will cultivate relationships with faculty, staff, and students and participate in projects that support scholarly communication, copyright/intellectual property, and course affordability work of the department.

https://jobs.nku.edu/postings/14912

“The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text”

Large language models (LLMs) are typically trained on enormous quantities of unlicensed text, a practice that has led to scrutiny due to possible intellectual property infringement and ethical concerns. Training LLMs on openly licensed text presents a first step towards addressing these issues, but prior data collection efforts have yielded datasets too small or low-quality to produce performant LLMs. To address this gap, we collect, curate, and release the Common Pile v0.1, an eight terabyte collection of openly licensed text designed for LLM pretraining. The Common Pile comprises content from 30 sources that span diverse domains including research papers, code, books, encyclopedias, educational materials, audio transcripts, and more. Crucially, we validate our efforts by training two 7 billion parameter LLMs on text from the Common Pile: Comma v0.1-1T and Comma v0.1-2T, trained on 1 and 2 trillion tokens respectively. Both models attain competitive performance to LLMs trained on unlicensed text with similar computational budgets, such as Llama 1 and 2 7B. In addition to releasing the Common Pile v0.1 itself, we also release the code used in its creation as well as the training mixture and checkpoints for the Comma v0.1 models.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05209

Research Data Librarian at University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The Research Data Librarian will serve as a major point of contact for students, faculty, and researchers across the University in finding, and utilizing data. This position will serve as liaison to the newly launched School of Data Science, as well as the College of Computing and Informatics and the Geography department. Additionally, they will have the opportunity to collaborate closely with a fantastic team of subject librarians. They will design and teach instructional sessions, create online research guides, and assist with collection development for assigned academic programs. They will also be able to identify projects of interest and areas of growth to support the mission of a recently designated R1-status university.

https://jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/63346

“Request of Endocrinology and Metabolism Journals for Data Sharing Statements in Clinical Trial Reports: A Survey”

Background: To enhance reproducibility and transparency, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) required that all trial reports submitted after July 2018 must include a data sharing statement (DSS). Accordingly, emerging biomedical journals required trial authors to include a DSS in submissions for publication if trial reports were accepted. Nevertheless, it was unclear whether endocrinology and metabolism journals had this request for DSS of clinical trial reports. Therefore, we aimed to explore whether endocrinology and metabolism journals requested DSS in clinical trial submissions, and their compliance with the declared request in published trial reports.

Methods: Journals that were from the category of “Endocrinology & Metabolism” defined by Journal Citation Reports (JCR, as of June 2023) and published clinical trial reports between 2019 and 2022, were included for analysis. The primary outcome was whether a journal explicitly requested a DSS in its manuscript submission instructions for clinical trials, which was extracted and verified in December 2023. We also evaluated whether these journals indeed included a DSS in their published trial reports that were published between December 2023 and May 2024.

Results: A total of 141 endocrinology and metabolism journals were included for analysis, among which 125 (88.7%) requested DSS in clinical trial submissions. Journals requesting DSS had a significantly lower JCR quartile and higher impact factor when compared with those journals without DSS request. Among the 90 journals requesting DSS, 14 (15.6%) journals indeed did not publish any DSS in their published trial reports between December 2023 and May 2024.

Conclusion: Over 10% of endocrinology and metabolism journals did not request DSS in clinical trial submissions. More than 15% of the journals declaring to request DSS from their submission instructions, did not publish DSS in their published trial reports. More efforts are needed to improve the practice of endocrinology and metabolism journals in requesting and publishing DSS of clinical trial reports.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2025.1518399

University Librarian and Andrew H. and Janet Dayton Neilly Dean of the Libraries at University of Rochester

The University Librarian has oversight of the policies and enterprise systems for the UR Libraries, including the Miner Medical Libraries (UR Medical Center), the River Campus Libraries (RCL), the Sibley Music Library (Eastman School of Music), and the Charlotte Whitney Allen Library at the Memorial Art Gallery (MAG). The University Librarian also represents the UR Libraries in the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), where the UR Libraries play an active role.

For the Academic Center, the University Librarian has administrative responsibility for all library divisions, including oversight of an approximately $24 million consolidated operations budget (collections, endowment return) with a total of 115 FTEs. The University Librarian will be a principal fundraiser for the Libraries as the University launches its next comprehensive capital campaign. . . .

The University of Rochester’s library system stands at a critical juncture, balancing exceptional staff dedication and beautiful physical spaces against operational challenges in the current political and fiscal environments. The next University Librarian has significant opportunities to build a transformational vision, leverage existing strengths and continue to address new and ongoing needs in creative research-forward ways.

https://tinyurl.com/3bde3vmk

“Web-Scraping AI Bots Cause Disruption for Scientific Databases and Journals”

This year, the BMJ, a publisher of medical journals based in London, has seen bot traffic to its websites surpass that of real users. The aggressive behaviour of these bots overloaded the publisher’s servers and led to interruptions in services for legitimate customers, says Ian Mulvany, BMJ’s chief technology officer. . . .

The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) reported in April that more than 90% of 66 members it surveyed had experienced AI bots scraping content from their sites — of which roughly two-thirds had experienced service disruptions as a result.

https://tinyurl.com/wva9sx6p

Digitization and Data Coordinator at University of Georgia

The Digitization and Data Coordinator is responsible to the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections ( SCL ) for leading collection digitization and collections as data projects, developing metadata and transcription workflows, managing budgets, and assessing collection use. This position provides strategic leadership in planning and implementing sustainable, efficient workflows for digitization, metadata migration, and access to archival materials.

https://www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/432546

“Open-Science Practices in Two Communication Sciences and Disorders Journals: A Systematic Review”

Open-science practices promote research transparency and efficiency, yet their use in communication sciences and disorders (CSD) is understudied. We reviewed the prevalence of open data, open materials, and preregistration in two CSD journals (2019-2024), assessing whether the adoption of open-science badges in one journal in 2022 increased their use. Among 462 empirical articles reviewed, 19.5% shared materials, 3.0% shared data, and 1.1% were preregistered. There was no evidence of increased open-science engagement after open-science badge implementation. Implications of relatively low levels of open-science practices and recommendations for increasing engagement in open-science practices among CSD researchers are discussed.

https://doi.org/10.35542/osf.io/6habn_v1

Digital Preservation and Digital Collections Archivist at Indiana University Indianapolis

The Digital Preservation and Digital Collections Librarian reports to the Director of Distinctive Collections and works closely with colleagues within Distinctive Collections (Herron Art Library and Ruth Lilly Special Collections & Archives) and across the Library, to ensure the preservation and maintenance of digital content. This content includes, but is not limited to, digitized texts, images, audio-visual material, 3D and VR content, GIS data, research data sets, and born-digital materials.

https://tinyurl.com/4kc7w2kt

“Making the Case for Multilingual Scholarly Communication”

A scholarly communication ecosystem with one dominant language presents numerous inequities. Implementing multilingualism is complex and there is no single strategy to achieve it. Rather, multilingualism can take different forms, and small steps taken by different actors can add up to increase linguistic diversity. This commentary unpacks some of the complexities involved in multilingual scholarly communication and offers some concrete recommendations for moving forward.

https://doi.org/10.5206/cjils-rcsib.v48i1.22292

Digital Archivist at Rice University

The Digital Archivist reports directly to the Head of Special Collections and leads the department’s digital preservation program. This role requires creating goals for the existing digital preservation program, refining and maintaining documented workflows, and leading file transformation and preservation steps. The Digital Archivist collaborates with archivists and special collections librarians in the Woodson Research Center to arrange and describe digital collections and provide reference services for them.

https://tinyurl.com/39wbd58p

“A Platform for AI-Assisted Archival Metadata Generation”

This paper presents our latest work on Computational Linguistics Applications for Multimedia Services (CLAMS), a open-source Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platform for various cultural institutions in the GLAM sector. CLAMS provides a framework for developing and implementing ML-based computational multimedia analysis tools, and optimizes the processing of audiovisual archival material by seamlessly integrating tools across various media types, including text, audio, video, and images. . . [It] provides archivists with an AI-assisted environment for metadata refinement.

https://tinyurl.com/4tcdh9na

“Launch of the UNESCO Open Science Toolkit Resources: Data Policies for Times of Crisis Facilitated by Open Science ”

The UNESCO Toolkit resource package includes the following:

Factsheet: A concise overview of the critical role data policies play in crisis situations and how open science can lead to more resilient, equitable, and coordinated data management in times of crisis.

Guidance Document: A structured framework designed to help stakeholders develop context-sensitive data policies informed by open science principles.

Checklist: A practical tool to support the design of data policies for times of crisis aligned with open science values.

https://tinyurl.com/2wmjvnnp

Paywall: “From Data Lifecycle to Research Activity Model: Research Data Management in Data-Intensive Social Sciences and Humanities Research”

Unmet needs in terms of existing infrastructure (e.g. repositories) and services are affecting the research data management practices in data-intensive social sciences and humanities research, where less common tasks include data sharing and reuse. Based on these perceived requirements, an improved version of the Data Documentation Initiative Lifecycle that includes the support needs required for effectively managing data throughout the research process is developed.

https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-12-2024-0959

Digital Research Collections Co-ordinator at University of Glasgow

To manage and maintain efficient, high-quality workflows, processes and procedures for the delivery of the Digital Research Collections service.

To project manage the development of curated digital collections, ensuring processing activities meet project objectives, professional standards, best practice and institutional priorities.

To contribute to Library Collections service delivery; and to the University Library’s overall service planning and continuous improvement.

https://tinyurl.com/mvycxk7n

Paywall: “A Checklist to Publish Collections as Data in GLAM Institutions”

The purpose of this study is to offer a checklist that can be used for both creating and evaluating digital collections, which are also sometimes referred to as data sets as part of the collections as data movement, suitable for computational use.

https://doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-06-2023-0195

Digital Preservation Archivist at Georgia State University

Establishes and refines policies, procedures, and best practices for the acquisition, long-term preservation and access to permanent digital materials.

Manages and maintains the digital preservation system and Archive It web archiving account.

Collaborates with archivists to identify, capture, and revise web and social media content in accordance with the collection development policy. . . .

Advises faculty archivists, librarians, and content creators on digital content lifecycle issues, strategies for digital content preservation, the use of innovative tools and processes for experimentation and development, and other initiatives related to collections and data.

https://tinyurl.com/dnup6khd

“Maturity Model for Organizational Research Data Management Services”

Developing research data management (RDM) services has become an international trend in response to the movement promoting open science. There is an urgent need to establish support systems for universities and research institutions to strengthen governance. However, the diversity of RDM services and the absence of a universally applicable model create challenges in implementation. To address this, we propose a maturity model for organizational RDM services. By analyzing existing RDM service maturity models, we extract six key dimensions —awareness, data policy, budget, services, user needs, and IT infrastructure—and develop a structured evaluation framework with a five-level rating system. The model is validated through a step-by-step approach: author evaluation, domain evaluation, and practical setting evaluation via a national survey of Japanese institutions. The results demonstrate the model’s applicability across institutions of varying sizes and types, enabling RDM managers to quantitatively assess service maturity and compare progress against national benchmarks. Furthermore, we discuss the potential value and utilization of the framework through two case studies. This study provides an organizational benchmark for RDM services that is applicable to institutions of diverse sizes and natures. It also helps identify issues in the future implementation of organizational RDM services and highlights priority areas for investment.

https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2025-018

Library Application Management and Integration Specialist at University of Notre Dame

Among other projects, we are replacing our current Integrated Library System (ILS) and adopting an open-source, cloud-based solution. The LAM & Integration Specialist will be a key player in ensuring that we successfully integrate this new system with other library applications and external campus and vendor systems.

Proactively manage a wide range of core library applications, both patron and staff-facing, such as the Integrated Library System, Discovery, Inventory Management, or Archival Management systems

Automate workflows, configure and upgrade systems, extract data, and generate reports

Manage and configure core library applications from the unit portfolio, such as the Integrated Library System, Discovery, Inventory Management, or Archival Management systems

https://tinyurl.com/2zfu4h54

“Data Sharing Statements: Impact of Journal Policies Across Clinical Research Disciplines”

Background and Aims

Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of mortality, with significant investments in research to improve treatment and prevention. Data sharing enhances transparency, reproducibility, and collaboration, yet data sharing statement (DSS) inclusion remains inconsistent. This study evaluates DSS prevalence, content, and influencing factors in high-impact cardiology journals, examines journal policy influence, and assesses data sharing feasibility by contacting authors who indicated data availability.

Methods

A cross-sectional analysis was conducted to assess DSS inclusion in top cardiology, selected general medicine, emergency medicine, and orthopaedic surgery journals. A systematic PubMed search identified clinical studies published from 2020 to 2023. Logistic regression models assessed factors associated with DSS inclusion, while thematic analysis categorized DSS content. Corresponding authors who indicated data availability upon request were contacted to evaluate follow-through.

Results

Among 2941 articles, 1004 (34.14%) included a DSS. Data sharing statement prevalence varied by discipline: cardiology (52%), general medicine (96%), emergency medicine (12%), and orthopedic surgery (14%). Policy enforcement drove DSS inclusion, with post-policy articles significantly more likely to contain a DSS. Funding status, study design, article access, and impact factor also influenced DSS presence. Thematic analysis identified conditional availability and gatekeeping as dominant DSS themes. Of authors who stated data were available upon request, only 31% ultimately provided access.

Conclusions

Data sharing statement inclusion in cardiology research remains inconsistent, with journal policies playing a key role in increasing prevalence. However, real-world data-sharing practices often fall short of stated commitments. Addressing logistical and financial barriers will be essential to improving data availability in cardiology research.

https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf359