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October 10, 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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Fast Company Looks at the Best Ways to Work Smarter
Stephanie Vozza writes the following in “How to Structure Your Day for Brain Efficiency, According to a Neuroscientist” for Fast Company:It’s no secret that artificial intelligence is changing the way we work. With more and more simpler tasks being automated, humans are left with more high-level cognitive work, such as idea generation. If you want to excel in the new era, you’ll need to radically transform how you work to maximize brain efficiency, says Dr. Mithu Storoni, a neuroscientist and the author of Hyperefficient: Optimize Your Brain to Transform the Way You Work. The problem is that we still follow a psychological and physical infrastructure of work that resembles the era of assembly lines, which doesn’t foster or facilitate the type of work needed today. For more information, read the article.
ALA Spreads the Word About the Freedom to Read Community Day of Action on Oct. 19
ALA and the Unite Against Book Bans campaign announced the Freedom to Read Community Day of Action on Oct. 19, 2024. More than 100 events are already planned by libraries around the country.ALA notes, “Organized in partnership with the Brooklyn, Queens and New York Public Libraries, and the Association for Rural and Small Libraries, the Freedom to Read Community Day of Action is in response to the wave of book banning and censorship that started gathering momentum in 2020. Coordinated attempts to censor reading material continue to impact schools and public libraries nationwide, threatening the First Amendment rights of all Americans.” On a related note, Oct. 7–11 is National Voter Education Week, and ALA is offering the Inspiring Future Voters book list and Reader Voter Ready resources for libraries and community leaders. For more information, read the press release.
ALA Participates in the White House Challenge to Save Lives From Overdose
ALA announced the following:The White House [on Oct. 8] recognized the efforts of libraries to save lives from overdose. [ALA] President Cindy Hohl participated in a discussion of the issue with Administration officials and national leaders. ALA is one of more than 250 organizations and businesses that have made voluntary commitments to the White House Challenge to Save Lives from Overdose. The Challenge, launched earlier this year, is a nationwide call-to-action to stakeholders across all sectors to increase training on, and access to, life-saving opioid overdose reversal medications like naloxone. ALA—led by its division, the Public Library Association—has developed resources to help libraries respond to the overdose crisis, supported by funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. For more information, read the press release and the X post.
GPO Offers 500-Plus Free Congressionally Mandated Reports From Federal Agencies
The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) announced that it “now has more than 500 Congressionally Mandated Reports (CMR) from more than 75 Federal agencies available for free public access on GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. This number has quadrupled since GPO first put CMRs online in December 2023. These reports come to GPO after first being submitted to Congress, committees, or subcommittees.”CMR topics include veterans’ medical care, healthcare coverage and access, marine and coastal resources, land use and conservation, and small businesses. They are browsable by agency or topic, and users can download a searchable table of the reports. They are available at govinfo.gov/app/collection/CMR. For more information, read the press release.
CCC Will Participate in Discussions About Artificial Intelligence at the Frankfurt Book Fair
CCC is hosting Let Licensing Bloom: The Root of Responsible AI on Oct. 17, 2024, during the Frankfurt Book Fair. “Panelists include Arend Kuester, CSIRO Publishing; Josh Jarrett, Wiley; Lui Simpson, Association of American Publishers (AAP); and Sarah Tegen, American Chemical Society (ACS). CCC President and CEO Tracey Armstrong will moderate the session,” CCC shares.Roy Kaufman, CCC’s managing director of business development and government relations, will moderate a panel called Relevant [AI] Policy Around the Globe at the STM Conference on Oct. 15. Visit CCC’s booth at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Hall 4.0, G54. For more information, read the press release.
Taylor & Francis Adds More Journals to ResearchGate
ResearchGate and Taylor & Francis expanded their Journal Home partnership to add a portfolio of biomedical journals and journals from OA publisher PeerJ.“In total, a further 18 journals will now be added to the 400+ titles Taylor & Francis already have in Journal Home,” the press release states, noting that “16 journals, including BioTechniques and Future Oncology, joined Taylor & Francis in December 2023 and form part of the Expert Medicine collection. PeerJ, which joined Taylor & Francis in March 2024, also sees two of its pioneering broad-scope titles, PeerJ Life & Environment, and PeerJ Computer Science, now available on ResearchGate through Journal Home.” For more information, read the press release.
Karger Publishers Expands Its Partnership With Scite to Add Smart Citations to Articles
Research Solutions, Inc. announced the following:Scite, an award-winning platform within the Research Solutions, Inc. … product family and used by more than one million students and researchers to discover and better understand scientific literature, has expanded its partnership with Karger Publishers. Karger, a prominent family-led biomedical and health science publisher, now features Scite’s citation badges on each of its journal article pages across 100 medical journals on Karger.com. … Pioneered by Scite, Smart Citations go beyond traditional citations by showing citation statements, which indicate where references are used within citing articles and classify whether the paper provides supporting or contrasting evidence to the cited claim. … Karger Publishers has integrated Smart Citation badges into its online journal content, adding to the over 3.5M articles that display Smart Citations from other publishers such as Wiley, The Royal Society, Wolters Kluwer, The American Chemical Society, IGI Global, and The National Academy of Sciences. For more information, read the press release.
JP Medical Publishers Adds 10 OA Journals to ResearchGate
ResearchGate and JP Medical Publishers, “Southeast Asia’s largest and fastest-growing health sciences publisher, are pleased to announce a new partnership through ResearchGate’s innovative Journal Home offering.” Their agreement covers 10 fully open access medical journals, and each journal will have a dedicated profile and be prominently featured across all associated article pages. Authors publishing in these journals will have their articles automatically added to their ResearchGate profiles so they can track the impact of their work.For more information, read the press release.
Urban Libraries Council Releases List of Top Library Innovators for 2024
The Urban Libraries Council (ULC) “named six public libraries as ‘Top Innovators’ for 2024 as part of its annual Innovations Initiative. The Denver Public Library (CO), Gwinnett County Public Library (GA), Miami-Dade Public Library System (FL), San Francisco Public Library (CA), Toronto Public Library (Ontario), and Virginia Beach Public Library (VA) receive the ‘Top Innovator’ award for the originality of their work, demonstrative and measurable outcomes, and the potential for other libraries to replicate and implement these most innovative of programs.”For more information, read the press release.
OpenAI Gets Billions to Keep Working on Artificial Intelligence
Connie Guglielmo writes the following in “OpenAI Makes History Again, This Time by Scoring Billions From Investors” for CNET:OpenAI, which turned generative AI from a sci-fi concept into a consumer reality when it released ChatGPT two years ago, … raised $6.6 billion in one of the largest venture capital funding rounds in US history. … The pressure is now on CEO Sam Altman to turn the San Francisco-based company from a charitable nonprofit into a for-profit company within two years, a shift that’s raised concerns that in its new quest to make money OpenAI might rush out AI tools that could increase the risk to humanity. The company said in a statement to Bloomberg that it would use the money to advance AI research and to increase its computing capacity. For more information, read the article.
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