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OpenAIRE and Alien Intelligence Announce Partnership to Bring AI Agents to the OpenAIRE Graph
From an OpenAire Post: …AI is changing how research is discovered and used. A newer generation of systems, often called agentic AI, can reason across sources, plan tasks, follow relationships between entities, and support decisions based on structured evidence. For open scholarly infrastructures, this raises a clear question: can the systems that increasingly interpret scientific […]
Association of American Publishers (AAP) Releases StatShot Report For First Quarter, 2026: Overall Industry Was Up 0.9%; Professional & Scholarly Publishing Up 5.7%
From the Association of American Publishers (AAP): Today, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) released its StatShot report covering the first three months of 2026 reflecting reported revenue for Trade (Consumer Books), Education (combines PreK-12 Instructional Materials and Higher Education Course Materials), and Professional & Scholarly Publishing. Total revenues across all categories for the first […]
New From Ithaka S+R: US Library Survey 2025: Under Pressure
US Library Survey 2025: Under Pressure was published today (May 14, 2026) by Ithaka S+R. The report was written by Ellen Carroll, Tracy Bergstrom, and Ioana G. Hulbert, From the Executive Summary: Key Findings Leaders are operating under sustained financial and staffing constraints. Mirroring previous cycles, the majority of respondents cite a lack of financial resources as […]
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New Report From EveryLibrary Institute: “Library Patron Privacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”
From EveryLibrary Institute: As libraries across the United States rapidly adopt artificial intelligence tools and digital services, longstanding assumptions about patron confidentiality are being tested in new and urgent ways. “Library Patron Privacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” is an analysis examining how existing state library privacy laws intersect with emerging AI technologies, third-party data […]
Report From Dagstuhl Seminar 25381: Open Scholarly Information Systems: Status Quo, Challenges, Opportunities
Event Page Title Open Scholarly Information Systems: Status Quo, Challenges, Opportunities Authors Hannah Bast, Guillaume Cabanac, Paolo Manghi, Jian Wu, and Marcel R. Ackermann Source Dagstuhl Seminar DOI: 10.4230/DagRep.15.9.38 Abstract Over the past 30 years, a rich ecosystem of scholarly information systems has developed that openly provide their services to the scientific community. These systems […]
Report: “One in 277 PubMed-Indexed Papers In 2026 Shows Fabricated References, Says Analysis”
From Retraction Watch: Fabricated citations in the biomedical literature have increased 12-fold in two years, according to an audit of nearly 2.5 million papers published as a letter to The Lancet today. The analysis of articles indexed in PubMed found that about one in 277 papers published in the first seven weeks of 2026 referenced a paper that didn’t […]
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The Guardian: “‘Things Were Going Dark Left and Right’: The Race to Save US Government Datasets Before They’re Deleted”
From The Guardian: André is part of a group of “data rescuers” who’ve banded together during Trump’s second term. They’ve been quietly racing to save hundreds of critical government datasets before they’re no longer available. Now known as the Data Rescue Project, it’s a grassroots network of more than 800 people around the world who spend […]
Just Announced: “The Cost of Knowledge” is the Theme For International Open Access Week 2026
From a SPARC Announcement: We create and share knowledge in order to advance human understanding and the common good. We recognize that accessing and sharing knowledge is a human right. Yet, the costs to access and share knowledge continue to increase, often dramatically. Why? Who benefits? Increasing consolidation and commercial control over all aspects of […]
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Journal Article: Publications Produced and Services Offered by Library Publishing Programs in the United States and Canada: A Data-Driven Analysis
The article linked below was published today by the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. Title Publications Produced and Services Offered by Library Publishing Programs in the United States and Canada: A Data-Driven Analysis Authors Johanna Meetz The Ohio State University Jeff Story| Intel Corporation Source Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 14(1), eP20194 (2026) […]
“Harnessing the Data Renaissance for Scientific Discovery” (Video Recording of Closing Plenary; Coalition For Networked Information (CNI) Spring 2026 Membership Meeting)
Here’s the video recording of the closing plenary talk (recorded at the Spring 2026 CNI Membership Meeting in Salt Lake City) by Manish Parashar, Executive Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute; Inaugural Chief AI Officer; Presidential Professor, University of Utah. Manish is introduced by Kate Zwaard, CNI Executive Director The current data renaissance, accelerated by advances […]
