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Beth Evans started the topic RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took aim at reputed journals such as the Lancet and said his agency will create “in-house” publications instead.
GIft link (should get you behind paywall)

https://wapo.st/43sc0Bz

Link if you subscribe

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/28/rfk-jr-ban-journals-lancet-jama/

3 days, 19 hours ago

Don’t AI Alone – Working Group

Stephen Zweibel joined the group

2 weeks, 5 days ago

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Beth Evans replied to the topic CDL Lending/Recent Internet Archive Court Decision

Good points, Jill.

Pulling out the positives the AA sees in the ruling for a shorter read here:

1.The Court rejected the district court’s conclusion that IA was engaged in commercial use when looking at the first factor of fair use. The publishers argued IA’s lending of digitized books was commercial in nature because IA received a few thou…[Read more]

8 months, 2 weeks ago

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Beth Evans started the topic Hijacked Journals - Another version of predatory journals

In case you missed this in the Library Link of the Day

New to me.

https://doi.org/10.1111/isj.12481
The ‘hijacking’ of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems: Implications for the information systems community [Information Systems Journal]

Beth

1 year, 5 months ago

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Beth Evans replied to the topic 11/15 SCRT Meeting Notes

Thanks for these notes Jill. Sorry I missed the meeting.

The book does look amazing!

I think all of the chapters in the section Intersections look compelling for future discussions.

Thanks for an excellent suggestion.

Beth

1 year, 6 months ago

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Beth Evans started the topic ICYMI: Upcoming Webinar on Author Rights Sponsored by Max Planck Digital Library

Nov 2, 2023 8:30 AM

Ana Valente

** with apologies for cross-posting **

One of the key points coming out of the 16th Berlin Open Access Conference was the crucial need to fully enable author choice and author rights when publishing their research open access:

We strongly support retention of copyright and all rights therein by authors. Open…[Read more]

1 year, 7 months ago

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Beth Evans started the topic An invitation from IUB to OA Week Keynotes touching on AI and science publishing

ICYMI

Hi All,
Just a reminder that Indiana University Libraries invites you to remotely attend our Open Access Week keynotes on Friday, October 27th:

From 1 to 2 p.m., Lucy Lu Wang, Assistant Professor at the University of Washington iSchool, will present, “Taking and Giving Back? Open Access, Generative AI, and the Transformation of…

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1 year, 7 months ago

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Beth Evans replied to the topic 10/17 Meeting Notes

Looks good, Jill! Looking forward to the November meet-up.

Beth

1 year, 7 months ago

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Beth Evans replied to the topic 10/17 Meeting Notes

Thanks, Jill. Sorry I had to miss the meeting.

And thanks, Monica, for the article.

On peer review, here are a couple of recent articles that caught my…[Read more]

1 year, 7 months ago

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Beth Evans started the topic Who’s Afraid of Open Science?

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/10/04/call-open-debate-open-science-opinion

“… in July, the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives released language in a spending bill that, if passed into law, would effectively freeze the Nelson memo for a year by banning the use of funds to implement the…[Read more]

1 year, 8 months ago

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Beth Evans started the topic American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge

The American Chemical Society Offers a New Twist on the Article Processing Charge: An Interview with Sarah Tegen

ACS is proposing what they call Author Development Charges (ADC’s). These are fees promised to the publisher, prior to peer review, that will allow the author to buy-out the embargo from…[Read more]

1 year, 8 months ago

Graduate Center Library Blog

Elevator Undergoing Repairs Our historic elevator is undergoing repairs and we’re sorry for the inconvenience. However, an alternate elevator is a […]

1 year, 9 months ago

The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian

Beth Evans commented on the post, The complaint committee

Good luck to you, Robin.

1 year, 10 months ago

The Rolling Chronicles: Further Adventures of the Three Wheeled Librarian

Beth Evans commented on the post, Stage 2

Glad you are improving. Bit by bit.

1 year, 11 months ago

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Beth Evans started the topic Can the E.U. Make a ‘Parallel Publishing System’ Work?

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/2023/05/19/can-eu-make-parallel-publishing-system-work

2 years ago

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Beth Evans started the topic Scholarly Communication in Crisis: Research Integrity and Open Scholar

I highly recommend this webinar if you missed the event. It includes some fascinating suggestions for peer review.

Webinar – Scholarly Communication in Crisis: Research Integrity and Open Scholarship

Beth

2 years, 1 month ago

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Beth Evans started the topic Forum: How do we make accessible research papers a reality?

ICYMI on CULIBS, shared thanks to Adina Mulliken, accessibility librarian at Hunter.

Forum: How do we make accessible research papers a reality?

https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessibility_forum.html

Beth

2 years, 1 month ago

Graduate Center Library Blog

The Mina Rees Library is pleased to announce that we have acquired TRACFed, a source of information about the US federal government that provides our researchers, educators, and students with a comprehensive […]