The final collection of project briefing videos from the CNI Fall 2023 Membership Meeting are now openly available on the CNI website, YouTube, and Vimeo channels. All meeting materials, including selected presentation slides, project briefing videos, the lightning round video, and opening and closing plenary videos are now available.

OECD is working with both CLOCKSS and the Global LOCKSS Network to ensure the long-term preservation of books, journals, datasets and working papers in the OECD iLibrary. OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers, podcasts and statistics and is the knowledge base of OECD’s analysis and data.  2,500 subscribing institutions worldwide put OECD publications at the finger-tips of over 7 million users in more than 100 countries. This content will now also remain accessible for future users.

The British Library began restoring access to its online catalog on 15 January 2024, following a ransomware attack last October.

The loss of the main British Library catalogue has been perhaps the single most visible impact. The online system, for now, will be the only way to see the rarest books, maps, journals and music scores held by the library. The system for taking those physical objects into reading rooms is not yet running again. The majority of the Library’s key special collections – the archives, manuscripts and other unique items, will be accessible in an on-site capacity.

This post discusses seven contexts in which artificial intelligence (AI) is used. This post transitions from the more general AI discussion in earlier posts to one more focused on libraries, before looking more closely at potential library services and responses in an upcoming fourth post. The author concludes that the library discussion is necessarily moving towards forms of engagement, cautiously. For now, extra care and special attention are certainly warranted.

You can read the previous posts:

1. Generative AI and large language models: background and contexts
2. Generative AI, scholarly and cultural language models, and the return of content

This webinar, organized by OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association), was held in November 2023.

For the past decade or so, new jobs have emerged that illustrate an acknowledgment that libraries need to engage with evolutions in scholarly communication. At the same time, the creation of these positions and units strengthens a pressing need to develop new skills and expertise. Several questions were addressed during this webinar about the sense of preparedness of librarians to face the open access world; the role libraries play  in scholarly communication in a context which is not only digital but also OA.

Please find the panelist presentations:  Joanna Ball, Lai Ma, Rachael Samberg, Anna Clements, the responses to attendee questions and the recordings.

This comprehensive review explores the landscape of open science in the Western Balkan Countries (WBCs), offering insights into existing policies, infrastructure, and practices. The review is structured into four sections, each shedding light on crucial aspects of open science: Open Science /Open Access (OS/OA) policies in WBC; OS/OA repositories within the region; OA practices, elucidating the prevalence of national OA scientific journal in Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The final section examines the intersection of OS/OA and public engagement, particularly within the realm of psychology.

This study aims to investigate the attitudes and actions of scientific journal editors in China towards open access. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 17 Chinese editors from various scientific journals during September and October of 2022. The results indicate that the editors generally possess knowledge of open access and have implemented an appropriate open access model for their respective journals. If the Chinese-language journal editors expressed a lack of motivation to adopt open access, unless a policy is imposed, the English-language journal editors acknowledged that they have no other choice but to adopt open access.

Following the success of the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, that took place on 23-27 October in Toluca, Mexico, a concluding statement has now been ratified and released outlining the collective way forward for Diamond Open Access.

Co-organised by Science Europe and their partners – Redalyc, UAEMéx, AmeliCA, UNESCO, CLACSO, UÓR, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR), this event gathered a total of 700 attendees to all three main events – the Redalyc Journal Editors International Conference, the AmeliCA Members Meeting, and the 2nd Diamond Open Access Conference.

COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) launched in 2010 its Facilitation and Integrity subcommittee (F&I). Today, it is one of its most active services. At the beginning, its role was envisaged as dealing with complaints concerning member journals. In this review, COPE describes the work that F&I has dealt with in 2023, and points out some of the new challenges encountered.

In Review, developed by Research Square, the innovative service which integrates early sharing and increased transparency with the journal submission and peer review process, is now available on over 1,000 Springer Nature journals, including the Discover Journals platform. With the service already integrated across its BMC, Nature and Springer portfolios, the latest roll out means In Review is now available on over a third of Springer Nature’s portfolio, enabling more authors to benefit from the service. You can find a list of the participating journals.

Elsevier, a global leader in scientific information and data analytics, has launched Scopus AI – a generative AI product to help researchers and research institutions get fast and accurate summaries and research insights that support collaboration and societal impact.

Scopus AI is based on Scopus’ trusted content from over 27,000 academic journals, from more than 7,000 publishers worldwide, with over 1.8 billion citations, and includes over 17 million author profiles. Scopus content is vetted by an independent board of world-renowned scientists and librarians who represent the major scientific disciplines.

Un précédent dossier en 2017 donnait déjà à voir l’importance des identifiants, les usages d’IdRef hors de l’Abes, et la complémentarité homme/machine dans les tâches de liage des ressources documentaires à des notices d’autorité. En 2023, en dressant les 6 points forts de l’Abes, l’évaluation du Haut Conseil de l’évaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur (Hcéres) saluait « la qualité et la pertinence de l’offre de services, en particulier des référentiels, dont IdRef ».

The ISBD for Manifestation Task Force can now present a first draft of the ISBD for Manifestation (ISBDM) under the form of an online tool.

The ISBDM review phase 1 started already in November 2023 with an ISBD Review Group review. The review will now continue with phase 2, which is an “expert review” where experts from other IFLA bodies, RDA, MAC, and ISSN are invited. Phase 2 will start with an online introductory meeting on 8 February, at 3-5 PM (Paris time) to which 2-4 ISSN Review Group experts are invited.

Please find the ISBDM review phase plan: https://www.ifla.org/g/isbd-rg/isbd-for-manifestation-isbdm/.

COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) begins the Lightning Talk series with an introduction to current issues in artificial intelligence (AI), and some new directions and successes with AI tools in scholarly publishing.

Marie Soulière, Frontiers open access publisher and COPE Council member, and Nishchay Shah, Cactus Communications, will share their expertise.

Registration 

DIAMAS is a consortium of 23 organisations from 12 European countries, well-versed in OA academic publishing and scholarly communication. DIAMAS will present findings from the Institutional Publishing Landscape survey in an online event. Full details and registration

Webinar Highlights:

• Presentation of key survey findings,
• Insights into the implications for Diamond Publishing,
• Engagement with the team behind the survey in a live Q&A session.