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Weekly News Digest
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July 15, 2025 — 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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EFF Marks 35 Years of Defending Digital Freedom for All
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is celebrating its 35th birthday. Executive director Cindy Cohn shares the following: Thirty-five years ago, a small group of people caught a glimpse of the possibilities of the coming digital future and decided that the world needed a kick-ass defender to ensure that technology could empower people, rather than oppress them. EFF was born, and we’ve been fighting for you ever since. … Right now, it feels like the forces pushing for digital dystopia are surging. But there’s a not-so-secret weapon that keeps EFF in the fight, even when the odds are against us: we never lose sight of our vision for a better future. For more information, visit the site.
GPO Publishes Historical Supreme Court Cases to GovInfo
The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) made hundreds of Supreme Court cases available via its GovInfo site. The cases date from 1790 to 1991 and include such landmarks as Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona, and Marbury v. Madison. Supreme Court cases are officially published by the Reporter of Decisions in United States Reports volumes, which also feature lists of justices and officers of the court, a cumulative table of cases reported, reprints of amendments of the Supreme Court’s Rules and the Federal Rules of Procedure, and more. For more information, read the press release.
GetFTR Integrates With Lean Library and With Scite
Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) has new integrations with Lean Library and with Scite. “These collaborations further GetFTR’s mission to support streamlined, user-centric access to scholarly content across the whole research ecosystem,” GetFTR states. GetFTR shares the following: - With Lean Library, GetFTR now enables one-click access to full-text PDFs directly within a library’s discovery layer. This improves the researcher experience by removing barriers to content access and supporting libraries in delivering value at the point of need.
- Through its integration with Scite, GetFTR brings full-text access directly into the Scite and Scite Assistant. When users query Scite’s assistant, they will be informed where full text is available and receive streamlined access via GetFTR indicators and smart links.
For more information, read the news item.
Digital Science Finds That China Leads the World in AI
Digital Science reports that “China is outstripping the rest of the world in artificial intelligence research at a time when AI is becoming a ‘strategic asset’ akin to energy or military capability,” as discovered in a new report, “DeepSeek and the New Geopolitics of AI: China’s Ascent to Research Pre-Eminence in AI.” It is based on data from Dimensions. Key findings include: - China has become the pre-eminent world power in AI research, leading not only by research volume, but also by citation attention, and influence, rapidly increasing its lead on the rest of the world over the past seven years.
- Despite global tensions, China has become the top collaborator for the US, UK, and EU in AI research, while needing less reciprocal collaboration than any of them.
- China’s AI talent pool dwarfs its rivals—with 30,000 active AI researchers and a massive student and postdoctoral population.
For more information, read the blog post/press release.
Wiley Teams Up With Anthropic to Integrate Journal Content With AI Tools
Wiley is entering into a strategic partnership with Anthropic. The company will adopt Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) open standard, “which will enable seamless integration between authoritative, peer-reviewed content and AI tools across multiple platforms. Beginning with a pilot program, and subject to definitive agreement, Wiley and Anthropic will work to ensure university partners have streamlined, enhanced access to their Wiley research content.” The companies will establish standards for how AI tools integrate scientific journal content into results while providing the appropriate context for researchers. Institutions in the pilot program will be able to simplify research workflows by offering Wiley journal content directly within Anthropic’s Claude. For more information, read the press release.
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