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October 1, 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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Digital Science Rolls Out ReadCube Pro, Featuring an Artificial Intelligence Assistant
Digital Science shared the following:Digital Science announces ReadCube Pro, an AI-powered expansion of ReadCube, offering researchers new tools to simplify and accelerate literature management and literature monitoring workflows. The new AI Assistant and Literature Monitoring in ReadCube—an award-winning leader in literature management and full-text document delivery—transform the way research teams access, organize, review and monitor scholarly literature by providing them with enhanced search capabilities while helping to significantly reduce time spent on manual work. … ReadCube’s new AI Assistant and Literature Monitoring offer users the ability to: - Integrate AI seamlessly with existing literature workflows
- Search all 145+ million publications in the Dimensions database, including full-text
- Transform natural language queries into hyper-specific searches through AI Assisted query builder
- Refine and narrow search results with smart AI filtering
- Receive highly relevant, AI-curated email notifications about new additions to ReadCube libraries.
For more information, read the news item.
IFLA Looks to the Future
IFLA published its 2023 Annual Report, stating, “With a strong focus on sharing stories of our impact, as well as other key facts and figures around our work, this provides a great snapshot of what our Federation is all about.” The same day, IFLA unveiled its 2024–2029 strategy, which “provides a structure and reference for the work of IFLA, including of course its roughly 60 volunteer groups. As our survey work for its preparation has underlined, it can also be a tool and stimulus for IFLA’s members in preparing their own plans.” The strategy “underlines strongly the role [IFLA] see[s] libraries as having in the world: Sustainable futures for all through knowledge and information.”IFLA created a survey “to understand the work already taking place in [library] associations and relevant agencies” around “supporting and promoting intellectual freedom.” The results will help inform IFLA’s development of “a collection of examples of tools, documents, policies and more that can help build capacity and activity around intellectual freedom globally.” The deadline to respond is Nov. 8, 2024.
Sage Updates Its Free Collection of Research on Academic Freedom and Censorship
Sage announced the following to its email list:With academic censorship and book bans on the rise in the U.S., Sage has updated its collection of free-to-read research highlighting the effects of academic censorship on democracy, social-emotional learning, higher education, and more. Categories in the collection include: - academic freedom
- banned content
- cultures in the classroom
- intellectual freedom
- social emotion learning
Sage is also shedding light on issues surrounding academic freedom by launching a survey for faculty and librarians in higher ed to share how legislation across the US is impacting their work. Survey results will be shared in 2026. Other Sage initiatives include the following:
IEEE Partners With GetFTR
Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) shared that IEEE “joined its growing network of organizations. … This partnership further enhances IEEE’s ability to help their customers find and access trusted content, thereby improving their overall research experience” while boosting engagement with IEEE content.GetFTR explains, “When researchers discover content through a tool or platform integrated with GetFTR—whether directly or via the GetFTR Browser Extension—they will see a GetFTR indicator signaling that the content is available to them. This includes subscription, open access or free content. This streamlined access to trusted full text plays an important role in improving the researcher journey.” For more information, read the announcement.
IMLS Shares Recovery Resources for Museums and Libraries Impacted by Hurricane Helene
IMLS states that it “participates in the Heritage Emergency National Task Force, a partnership of 62 national service organizations and federal agencies created to protect cultural heritage from the damaging effects of natural disasters and other emergencies.” It links to rapid damage assessment forms for cultural institutions, arts organizations, and individual artists and performing groups and shares other resources pertaining to the National Heritage Responders team.For more information, read the bulletin.
Research Solutions Overhauls Its Brand Identity to Center Artificial Intelligence
Research Solutions, Inc. unveiled “a new brand and product suite. The new identity reflects the company’s deep integration of AI capabilities into their platform and its strategy to support the evolving needs of researchers in every industry. Research Solutions’ new look and feel represents a commitment to accelerating progress through advancing the world’s knowledge.”In addition, “Research Solutions is combining and enhancing their industry-leading discovery, access, management, and analysis tools into a comprehensive product family supporting each stage across the research workflow. Building on an unmatched foundation of document delivery services, Research Solutions is adding new capabilities and integrations to create a next-level experience for researchers. This includes AI-powered search functionality, contextualized citation insights, customizable data dashboards, collaboration tools, and advanced analytics.” For more information, read the press release.
Frontiers Enters Into OA Partnership With Chinese Science and Tech Institutions
Frontiers shared the following:Frontiers, a leading publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals, is pleased to announce a new partnership with China’s National Science and Technology Library (NSTL). … Effective from January 1, 2025, this landmark agreement will provide a discount on Article Processing Charges (APCs) for authors affiliated with nine of China’s most prestigious research institutions when publishing in any of Frontiers’ Neuroscience portfolio journals. … This is Frontiers’ first institutional partnership of this scale in China, and it aligns with its mission to make science open and accessible to all, ensuring that researchers can collaborate better and innovate faster. By reducing the financial barriers to publishing, this agreement will empower Chinese researchers to share their groundbreaking work with the global scientific community, accelerating advancements in neuroscience and related fields. For more information and the list of participating Chinese institutions, read the press release.
CyberRisk Alliance Publishes an AI in Cybersecurity Report and Starts a New Video Series
CyberRisk Alliance “released its latest Cybersecurity Buyer’s Intelligence Report (CBIR) for September 2024, titled ‘AI in Cybersecurity: Secret weapon or hidden threat?’ This report covers the growing interest and concerns surrounding the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) within cybersecurity practices, based on a survey of 192 security and IT professionals across North America.” For more information, read the press release and the report (registration required).In addition, CyberRisk Alliance is launching Founder Stories, “a new video series that provides a platform for the leaders behind emerging cybersecurity technologies. Produced by SC Media and CyberRisk TV, and hosted by Allan Alford, the series offers viewers and listeners an in-depth look at the experiences and insights of cybersecurity company founders.” Episodes feature exclusive interviews with cybersecurity company founders, who will discuss “their professional background, the challenges they sought to address, and the technology they developed in response to current security concerns.” For more information, read the press release.
Library of Congress Digitizes NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Documents
The Library of Congress announced that “[a] major portion of the processed records of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund are now available online for the first time. … Spanning the years 1915–1968, with most dating from 1940 to 1960, these records document the organization’s work as it combated racial discrimination in the nation’s courts, establishing in the process a public interest legal practice that was unprecedented in American jurisprudence.”The Library of Congress shares the following collection highlights: - Correspondence about Josephine Baker’s treatment at the Stork Club in New York in 1951
- Letters from 1955 between Thurgood Marshall and Simeon Booker, Washington bureau chief for Jet magazine, about witnesses for the Emmett Till trial
- A letter from Langston Hughes to Henry Lee Moon about his poem, “The Ballad of Harry Moore,” from 1952
- Documents related to the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education
For more information, read the press release.
Library of Congress Awards Teaching With Primary Sources Grants
The Library of Congress announced the following:The Library of Congress Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives Office, under the Center for Learning Literacy and Engagement, has awarded Teaching with Primary Sources grants to 23 first-time and 19 continuing grantee organizations located in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The current grants awarded in September provide one year of funding, with the possibility of two additional one-year grants, contingent upon successful delivery of Teaching with Primary Sources educational projects based on Library of Congress digitized materials. New grantees represent a diversity of organizational types, geographic locations and project emphases. They will use Library of Congress primary sources to deliver educational projects focused on civics, economics, disability history, law, writing, local and place-based history, media literacy, data visualization, state archives holdings, Congressional centers activities and supporting student inquiry. For more information and the list of grantees, read the news item.
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