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Paywall: "Evaluating the Performance of ChatGPT and Perplexity AI in Business Reference"

The Thomas Mahaffey Jr. Business Library conducted a study to assess the performance of two competing generative AI products, ChatGPT and Perplexity AI, in answering business reference questions. The study used a data set consisting of a sample of anonymized reference questions submitted through the library’s ServiceNow ticketing system between January 2018 and May 2022. The questions were input as prompts to each competing AI. . . . Results showed similar and underwhelming performance between each AI at the composite level. Analysis of scores in each individual scoring dimension showed greater variance in the score distributions between the competing AI. Through the evaluation process, key strengths, weaknesses, and trends emerged between each AI.

https://doi.org/10.1080/08963568.2024.2317534

Digital Scholarship Librarian at University of California, Irvine

Reporting to the Head of Digital Scholarship Services (DSS), the Digital Scholarship Librarian is a collaborative team member within the DSS department, works closely with subject liaison librarians, and engages with faculty, students, and other researchers across campus. The librarian provides broad digital research support through appointments, workshops and tutorials, and direct collaboration with researchers. Areas in which researchers on campus currently see increasing need include statistical analysis, cultural analytics, data visualization, and digital publishing, especially within the social sciences.

https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF08192

Paywall: "Leveraging ChatGPT and Bard for Academic Librarians and Information Professionals: A Case Study of Developing Pedagogical Strategies Using Generative AI Models"

This study focuses on improving pedagogical strategies by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and library databases. Examples from ChatGPT and Bard were used to demonstrate the quality of information. A cross-examination using a research validation template was conducted; it revealed that no artificial hallucinations were produced. However, the information provided by both AI chatbots was slightly outdated based on organizational changes and did not provide an in-depth analysis of the company.

https://doi.org/10.1080/08963568.2024.2321729

Scholarly Communications Librarian at University of Florida

This twelve-month, tenure-track faculty position educates the university community about modes of open access scholarly publication, copyright and intellectual property issues and their impact on scholarly inquiry and instruction. The Scholarly Communications Librarian will form strong collaborations with colleagues across the libraries to provide training and consultant services to strengthen and broaden copyright and publishing competencies within the Libraries. The Scholarly Communications Librarian also provides guidance on repository services and support for researchers’ publication, preservation, and funder compliance needs. This includes advising on the Institutional Repository at the University of Florida (IR@UF) as well as general, funder, and subject-specific repositories. This will include maintenance and outreach supporting the UF Author Rights Policy, implemented in Spring 2022.

https://tinyurl.com/yc6vn2y2

"FAIRness of Research Data in the European Humanities Landscape "

This paper explores the landscape of research data in the humanities in the European context, delving into their diversity and the challenges of defining and sharing them. It investigates three aspects: the types of data in the humanities, their representation in repositories, and their alignment with the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). By reviewing datasets in repositories, this research determines the dominant data types, their openness, licensing, and compliance with the FAIR principles. This research provides important insight into the heterogeneous nature of humanities data, their representation in the repository, and their alignment with FAIR principles, highlighting the need for improved accessibility and reusability to improve the overall quality and utility of humanities research data.

https://doi.org/10.3390/publications12010006

Electronic Resources Librarian at Kansas State University

The individual in this position will work collaboratively with a variety of library stakeholders to deliver innovative solutions for the management and expansion of electronic resources and serials in ways that maximize value and access to content for students, faculty, and staff. Serving as a functional lead for the management of e-resources throughout the entire e-resources lifecycle, the successful candidate will leverage technologies and collaborate with cross-trained staff to solve problems, maintain efficient workflows and ensure proper metadata for e-resource content./blockquote>

https://tinyurl.com/fcbeyb5r

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"A Decade of Progress: Insights of Open Data Practices in Biosciences at the University of Edinburgh"

Our analysis of research data sharing from 2014 to 2022 manually reviewed 193 journal articles against criteria for Openness and FAIRness, including the Completeness of data shared relative to data generated. The findings reveal an uptick in data completeness and reusability, with a clear influence of data type, and genomic data being shared more frequently than image data. Data availability statements (DAS) and preprint sharing show a strong correlation with higher Openness and FAIRness scores. Since 2016, when the FAIR guidelines were published, data Reusability increased along with the inclusion of Data Availability Statements. On the other hand, since the COVID-19 pandemic, we have found a substantial increase in preprint sharing and significant improvements in Completeness, Reusability, and Accessibility scores. This paper documents a local research institute’s journey towards Open Data, addressing the changes and advocating for best practices to nurture this progression.

https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.18.580901

Licensing Analyst at Florida Virtual Campus

As a member of FLVC Library Services, the Licensing Analyst is responsible for license management and negotiation of terms by FLVC on behalf of the State University System (SUS) and the Florida College System (FCS) pursuant to Florida Statute 1006.73. This position interacts with statewide FLVC stakeholders, providing access to library e-resources for more than 1.3 million students, faculty, and staff across all FCS and SUS institutions.

https://tinyurl.com/4abhnwa8

"De Gruyter Brill Begins Here"

De Gruyter and Brill have joined forces to form De Gruyter Brill, a leading academic publisher in the humanities and beyond. To mark the occasion, a new corporate website has been launched today at degruyterbrill.com.

With combined pro forma revenues of approximately €140 million and 750 employees, De Gruyter Brill is uniquely positioned to offer outstanding services and technological infrastructure tailored to the needs of academic authors, librarians, and institutions around the world. Together, De Gruyter Brill publishes well over 3,500 books and 800 journals per year, with a particularly strong focus on the humanities and social sciences, while extending to subject areas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

https://tinyurl.com/27e8szc2

Data Librarian at UConn Health

Providing workshops and instruction for the UConn Health research community (faculty, staff, and students) on data management and sharing topics, including funder requirements, best practices, workflows to improve quality, FAIR Principles (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability), CARE Standards (collective benefit, authority to control, responsibility, and ethics), publication and citation of data, locating relevant data sets for use in research, and ethical and responsible use of sensitive data.

Providing guidance and consultation for researchers in the development of data management plans, development of best practices, selection of data repositories, and preparing data for preservation.

Collaborating with colleagues in Reference Services, the Health Sciences Library, and across the research community to plan and develop research data services.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3n7z8e

"Anthropic Says Its Latest AI Bot Can Beat Gemini and ChatGPT"

Anthropic, the AI company started by several former OpenAI employees, says the new Claude 3 family of AI models performs as well as or better than leading models from Google and OpenAI. Unlike earlier versions, Claude 3 is also multimodal, able to understand text and photo inputs.

Anthropic says Claude 3 will answer more questions, understand longer instructions, and be more accurate. Claude 3 can understand more context, meaning it can process more information.

https://tinyurl.com/yb3dw8u7

Systems and Metadata Librarian at Bard College

Manages and maintains administration of the online library services platform (LSP), OCLC WorldShare Management Services, and discovery tool, WorldCat Discovery

Performs original and complex cataloging of library materials in all formats and a variety of languages; maintains batch processing of metadata for electronic resources. . . .

Develops, initiates, and interprets policies, practices, workflows, and goals relating to bibliographic access and evolving metadata practice

https://tinyurl.com/3d4bkmwb

Artificial intelligence News 03/04/24

"Adobe Is Testing a New AI Tool That Can Create Music From Text Prompts"

"The Best Generative AI Courses Money Can Buy"

"Generative AI Is Challenging a 234-Year-Old Law"

"How to Picture A.I."

"Is ChatGPT Making Scientists Hyper-Productive? The Highs and Lows of Using AI"

"StarCoder Is a Code-Generating AI That Runs on Most GPUs"

"‘Up to 1,000X Faster’: AI Startup Wants to Make GPU Training Obsolete with an Extraordinary Piece of Tech — Meet the Tseltin Machine Which May Come To a Device near You Sooner than You Think"

Scholarly Communication Librarian at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans

Reporting to the Associate Director of Libraries, the Scholarly Communications Librarian provides general and virtual information, research, and reference services. . . . Explores, evaluates, and encourages deployment of emergent technologies into library programs and services. The Scholarly Communications Librarian collaborates closely with staff across the library and initiates activities and special projects, especially those involving new methodologies and scholarly communication practices. The incumbent develops and maintains awareness of scholarly communication initiatives across the disciplines, attending professional meetings, workshops and conferences for training and continuing professional development.

https://tinyurl.com/4u97d853

"Choice of Open Access in Elsevier Hybrid Journals"

Open access articles in hybrid journals have recently increased despite high article processing charges. This study investigated the impacts of grants and transformative agreements on authors’ choice of open and non-open access articles by comparing two article types. The samples were hybrid journals launched independently by Elsevier. The results revealed that the authors who received more grants in countries with transformative agreements were more likely to choose open access articles. By contrast, authors in developing countries were likely to publish non-open access articles. These findings imply that authors’ choices depend on the funding systems and open access policies in individual countries. Consequently, open access may become a barrier to the dissemination of work for researchers who have financial difficulty choosing open access, although it enables everyone to access articles free of charge.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-024-09978-0

Data Librarian at University of Nevada Las Vegas

Facilitate and lead instructional programming related to research data management, data literacy, and open science/research including the design, development, and delivery of instruction through multiple formats to meet stakeholder needs (e.g., in-person, hybrid, synchronous and asynchronous online).

Advise and guide researchers on recommended data management practices throughout the research lifecycle that align with FAIR and CARE data principles, with an emphasis on making data open when possible.

Provide input and guidance to researchers in selecting appropriate data repositories to store and share their data.

https://tinyurl.com/bddapp5w

"The Cost and Price of Public Access to Research Data: A Synthesis"

Beginning on or before 31 December 2025, all recipients of United States federal research funding will be required to make their federally funded scholarly outputs, including scientific data, freely available via public access venues with no delays or embargos. This paper focuses on research data as one of the key scholarly output types impacted by the requirements outlined in the Memorandum on Ensuring Free, Immediate and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research issued by the US Office of Science and Technology Policy ?OSTP?, commonly called the "Nelson memo."

This paper sets out working definitions of four key terms: cost, price, reasonable, and allowable. Using these terms, we describe some of the pathways research data take to final publication, and summarize some of the extensive body of research on the costs of research data curation and sharing. We conclude that, for repositories leveraging sources of revenue other than deposit fees or other revenue streams that do not immediately scale up with increased deposits, sustainability is an important concern.

In the process, we look at cost modelling experimentation in the fields of research data management and digital preservation to consider what might be relevant from their approaches. Labour is the most significant cost for repositories and data curation, particularly in support of ingest and access, although the actual cost of data curation in repositories varies by discipline, characteristics of data, and level of curatorial services provided. If "reasonable” cost is not readily generalizable, greater clarity regarding allowable activities and more transparency in repositories" costs would aid researchers and funders in evaluating whether any deposit, membership, or other form of fees that are charged are appropriate for the services rendered. Where some or all of the effort associated with meeting public access requirements is performed by members of the research team, costs could be properly allocated to research and to publication components of grant budgets.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10729575

Information Technology Librarian at Langston University

Explores emerging technologies that promote maintenance and advancement of library infrastructure; Supports faculty, staff and student library related computer and informational technology needs; Promotes customer service and collegiality as a valued team member; Collaborates with Technical Services Librarian to ensure system functionality.

https://tinyurl.com/3jev8yu3

"What Do We Know about DOIs"

What, though, do we actually know about the state of persistence of these links? How many DOIs resolve correctly? How many landing pages, at the other end of the DOI resolution, contain the information that is supposed to be there, including the title and the DOI itself?. . . .

Let’s talk about the resolution statistics. Other studies, looking at general links on the web, have found a link-rot rate of about 60%-70% over a ten-year period (Lessig, Zittrain, and Albert 2014; Stox 2022). The DOI resolution rate that we have, with 97% of links resolving (or a 3% link-rot rate), is far better and more robust than a web link in general.

Is 3% a good or a bad number? It’s more robust than the web in general, but it still means that for every 100 DOIs, just under 3 will fail to resolve. We also cannot tell whether these DOIs are resolving to the correct target, except by using the metadata detection metrics (are the title and DOI on the landing page, which we could only detect at a far lower rate). It is entirely possible for a website to resolve with an HTTP 200 (OK) response, but for the page in question to be something very different to what the user expected, a phenomenon dubbed content drift.

https://www.crossref.org/blog/what-do-we-know-about-dois/

Lead Developer at University of Greenwich

Lead Developer is an exciting role within our Digital Services team, which manages our website and other key digital proprieties, as well as provide assistance to other departments with digital needs. We are looking for somebody who is highly motivated with proven programming and problem-solving skills and a good understanding of front-end development using HTML/CSS and JavaScript. You will also be familiar with working with structured data in formats such as JSON and SQL. The ideal candidate will be familiar with programming within enterprise CMS systems (In particular Squiz Matrix) and web development languages such as PHP.

https://tinyurl.com/2744x3fd

"eLife’s New Model: One Year On"

On January 31 2023, we launched our new model for publishing, combining the speed and transparency of preprints with the expert scrutiny and evaluation of peer review. We committed to publish everything that we reviewed. We would publish preprints together with public reviews and assessments. By doing so we would reshape the purpose of a journal. . . .

More than 6,200 teams of researchers have submitted their research (fig.1), choosing our journal and publishing model. Our month-on-month submissions have been stable since launch, but this January marks the highest number so far with 615.

At present, 27.7% of submissions (fig. 2) to our new model are sent for review. This is compared to 31.4% of submissions sent for review in our legacy model (from February 1, 2022–January 31, 2023). . . .

Reviewed Preprints help researchers share their peer-reviewed and assessed research faster. For a Reviewed Preprint, the median time from submission to publication of the first version with reviews and eLife assessment is 91 days (fig. 3). This is over two and a half times faster than the median submission to publication time in the legacy model. . . .

By the end of January 2024 we had published 1332 Reviewed Preprints, and this figure rises to 1836 when we include revised versions. These articles have been viewed over 850,000 times by more than 320,000 readers.

https://tinyurl.com/yknkm2fn

Digital Health Humanities Program Coordinator at UC San Francisco (Term)

This Digital Health Humanities (DHH) Program Coordinator will manage the development and day-to-day operations and services of the recently established Digital Health Humanities (DHH) program, including project direction for the two-year NEH-funded Advancing Digital Health Humanities Institute. The goal of the Digital Health Humanities program is to guide and equip researchers in their engagement with digital tools and methods to facilitate interdisciplinary scholarship that will advance understanding of the profound effects of illness and disease on patients, health professionals, and the social worlds in which they live and work. In order to extend the reach and use value of UCSF Archives and Special Collections "archives as data" resources through the practical application of innovative analysis and contextualization methods, the DHH Program Coordinator initiates and sustains constructive relationships with researcher-stakeholders (including faculty, students, and staff) as well as DHH instructors and consultants with expertise in computational research methods and archival health sciences collections.

https://tinyurl.com/2ppmwvrh

"How Open Are Hybrid Journals Included in Transformative Agreements?"

This study presents a novel approach based on open data, which leverages metadata on over 700 agreements and nine million journal articles to estimate the extent to which transformation agreements contribute to the transition of this journal business model. The results highlight a strong growth in open access between 2018 and 2022, driven by an increasing number of institutions that had transformative agreements in place. However, the majority of research literature published in hybrid journals in this five-year period remained behind publisher paywalls. Growth in the adoption of open access in hybrid journals, in particular through transformative agreements, can be largely attributed to three large commercial publishers — Elsevier, Springer Nature, and Wiley — but varies substantially across journals, publishers, disciplines, and country affiliations. Despite the limitations of the data, the findings indicate that the current level of implementation of transformative agreements is insufficient to bring about a large-scale transition to fully open access.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18255

Discovery and Electronic Resources Specialist at Oakland University

To provide leadership, under the direction of the OU Libraries’ Collections Support Services Coordinator, for all activities related to the acquisition, activation, maintenance, accessibility, and assessment of the Libraries’ electronic resources. Configure and provide ongoing support for the Libraries’ discovery service and other database platforms. Develop and maintain processes to ensure data integrity and management leading to the generation of complex reports, dashboards, and other relevant output.

https://jobs.oakland.edu/postings/30417

"Information Accessibility and Knowledge Creation: The Impact of Google’s Withdrawal from China on Scientific Research"

How important is Google for scientific research? This paper exploits the exogenous shock represented by Google’s sudden withdrawal of its services from mainland China to assess the importance of access to information for the knowledge production function of scientific scholars in the field of economics. For economists, a type of scholar with a simple knowledge production function, results from difference-in-difference analyses, which compare their scientific output to scholars located in the neighbouring regions, show that the scientific productivity declines by about 28% in volume and 30% in terms of citations. These results are consistent with the view that information accessibility is an important driver of scientific progress. Considering that the negative effect of the shock is stronger for top scholars located in China, Google’s sudden exit bears the risk that researchers lose touch with the research frontier and persistently lag behind their foreign peers.

https://doi.org/10.1080/13662716.2023.2298293