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July 18, 2024 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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Clarivate Rolls Out the 2024 G20 Research and Innovation Scorecard
Clarivate published its annual G20 scorecard, which “examines the research and innovation capabilities of each G20 member through dynamic, interactive data visualizations. This year, for the first time, the report includes data for the European Union and the G20’s new permanent member, the African Union.” Key findings include the following:- The African Union (AU) shows a high collaboration rate, collaborations with Mainland China yield higher citation impact than those with the U.S., their leading partner. …
- The European Union is the largest contributor of papers than any other G20 member. …
- Germany has a high number of researchers per capita. …
- India has seen international collaboration increase to just over one-third (35.6%) over the decade (2014 to 2023), the U.S. is its leading collaborator. …
- South Korea’s collaborations with the U.S. have fallen, while those with Mainland China and India are rising. …
For more information, read the news item.
EveryLibrary Marks 100 Fight for the First Campaigns Against Book Bans
EveryLibrary celebrated a milestone: More than 100 communities have launched campaigns against book bans via Fight for the First. “This unique and powerful platform allows library supporters like you to get access to the tools you need to fight against book bans and censorship in your community,” EveryLibrary shares. “We’ve helped communities win in states like California, Nevada, New Jersey, Maryland, Colorado, and many more!”Fight for the First offers free resources such as one-on-one consulting, petition platforms, funding, campaign website design, voter files, and access to professional political tools. For more information, read the news item.
CCC Takes a Big Step in Helping to License Copyrighted Materials in AI Systems
CCC introduced “artificial intelligence (AI) re-use rights within its Annual Copyright Licenses (ACL), an enterprise-wide content licensing solution offering rights from millions of works to businesses that subscribe.” CCC states, “The inclusion of AI re-use rights makes the ACL the first-ever collective licensing solution for the internal use of copyrighted materials in AI systems. The license enables participating rightsholders to fulfill the needs of companies that require an efficient way to legally acquire the rights to use copyrighted materials within AI systems for internal use.”“It is possible to be pro-AI and pro-copyright, and to couple AI with respect for creators,” says Tracey Armstrong, CCC’s president and CEO. “Responsible AI starts with licensing, and in developing this license, CCC enables users to efficiently gain access to a consistent set of rights across many rightsholders and returns royalties to rightsholders as compensation for use of their works.” For more information, read the press release.
Info Industry Job Moves and Awards
The charity Stonewall named Sage one of the U.K.’s most LGBTQ+-inclusive employers, giving the company a Gold Award.Malcolm “Hawk” Hawkins is the new deputy director of operations for the U.S. Copyright Office. He was previously chief of the administrative services division. EBSCO Industries, Inc. appointed Annie Callanan as CEO of EBSCO Information Services, replacing Tim Collins as of Aug. 5, 2024. Callanan was previously CEO of Taylor & Francis. Wiley introduced new leadership too, naming Matthew Kissner president and CEO, following a successful interim period. He has been with Wiley in various roles for more than 20 years. The American Chemical Society (ACS) awarded Frances H. Arnold its highest honor, the Priestley Medal, for her distinguished service to the chemistry field. Arnold is director of the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center at Caltech, among other positions. eLife shared the 10 winners and four runners-up of the 2024 Ben Barres Spotlight Awards, which recognize researchers from traditionally underrepresented groups in biology and medicine and who work in countries with limited research funding.
Thomson Reuters Rolls Out an AI-Focused Future of Professionals Report
Thomson Reuters published the 2024 Future of Professionals report, “an annual survey of more than 2,200 professionals working across legal, tax, and risk & compliance fields globally.” Its findings include the following:- Respondents predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to save them 12 hours per week in the next five years, or four hours per week over the upcoming year—equating to 200 hours annually. …
- The sharp uptick in interest in AI is a major catalyst for innovation across industries. Overall, 77% of professionals now predict AI will have a high or transformational impact on their work over the next five years, up 10 percentage points from last year. In addition, 79% anticipate innovation at their companies will increase.
- This year’s study underscores the overwhelming sense of enthusiasm professionals have for AI. AI, and specifically generative AI (GenAI), solutions for the legal, tax, and risk & compliance sectors have been among the most widely adopted categories of professional-grade AI applications to date. In fact, 63% of those surveyed are already using AI-powered technologies as a starting point for tasks, with research, summarization, and drafting cited as the most common use cases.
For more information, read the press release.
GetFTR Adds an Open Access Indicator Button to Its Integrated Services and Browser Extension
GetFTR announced the following:[W]e are expanding our services for open access publishers. Researchers tell us that they can find it hard to identify open access content in their discovery tools and may be missing out on articles they are entitled to read. GetFTR employs multiple sources to verify user entitlements and has for some time now included all open access content registered at Crossref. This means that open access publishers can automatically enjoy increased discoverability, as their content is signposted as open access right at the point of discovery. … Researchers will see the GetFTR indicator, which indicates access to open access content, in various research and discovery tools integrated with GetFTR, e.g. ReadCube, APA PsycInfo, Dimensions, and SciFinder. For those using the GetFTR Browser Extension, the button will also appear on popular platforms such as PubMed, Google Scholar, Google, Web of Science, and Scopus, as well as library discovery services and more. For more information, read the news item.
The U.S. Copyright Office Plans a Webinar on the Copyright Public Records System
The U.S. Copyright Office is hosting a webinar on Aug. 1, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. EDT titled Level Up Your Copyright Public Records Search. Register to learn how to search copyright public records using the office’s Copyright Public Records System (CPRS). The webinar will feature a demo and tips for leveraging CPRS’s features, as well as information on supplemental research and support services provided by the office and a Q&A.For more information, read the NewsNet issue.
Wiley Signs OA Agreement With Indian Technology Institute
Wiley entered into a new open access agreement with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur that is effective for the full year 2024. “[T]he collaboration aims to enhance access to scholarly resources for IIT Kharagpur, a leading technology institute,” the press release notes. “The partnership with IIT Kharagpur enables scholars and researchers from the institute with reading access to Wiley’s journal portfolio and enable affiliated researchers to publish open access in Wiley’s portfolio of over 1,300 hybrid open access journals.”For more information, read the press release.
Springshare Partners With Brodart to Launch a Reading Recommendation Service for Libraries
Springshare and Brodart introduced Patron Point My Reads, a reading recommendation service. “With this collaboration, users of the Patron Point marketing and automation platform can draw on robust title information provided by Brodart to automatically generate eye-catching monthly newsletters that feature reading lists on specific genres and topics,” Springshare notes. “These newsletters link directly to the library’s online catalog, where patrons can place holds on desired titles or search for additional content.” Patrons can opt in to the newsletter, and each issue is built and sent automatically.For more information, read the press release/blog post.
Clarivate Establishes an Academia AI Advisory Council
Yuval Kiselstein, VP of portfolio innovation for Clarivate, writes the following:At Clarivate, we’ve been partnering with the community to develop a broad range of Academic AI solutions, grounded in authoritative content and leveraging a robust Academic AI Platform. Now, to advance the conversation on these pressing issues, we are excited to announce the formation of the Clarivate Academia AI Advisory Council, first revealed earlier this year. … The council aims to: - Collaborate to promote the responsible application of AI in academia.
- Develop guidelines for using AI to improve research and learning experiences.
- Establish best practices for testing and verifying AI-based services.
- Share knowledge and expertise from AI initiatives across the academic spectrum.
- Explore and prioritize AI use cases for teaching, learning and research processes.
For more information, read the blog post.
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