Our director Dean J. Smith spoke with WUNC's "Due South" about our Centennial: buff.ly/5HGdcdN

"When Perplexity draws from EBSCOhost to answer a research question or complete a multi-step task, users can trace the response back to the underlying research paper." about.ebsco.com/news-center/...

This is a friendly reminder that we’re seeking input on how institutions monitor the impact of research outputs. Take our citation & impact reporting survey: form.typeform.com/to/G3Vrf7vi

ICYMI: Allen Powell Appointed as New CEO of EBSCO Information Services about.ebsco.com/news-center/...

Tired of spending hours analyzing usage data? There’s a better way. The OpenAthens Reporting API helps: - Understand users - Improve retention - Make budget decisions - Save time Less time on data = more time supporting users. Learn more & speak to your account manager today bit.ly/439jGHB

Nothing says springtime quite like Gothic novels...

BISG Names New Executive Director www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Interesting Report: What is AI Reading? May 2026 media.muckrack.com/documents/Wh...

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” https://bit.ly/4wmbFg8

NYT story 🎁 Proud & grateful for @historians.org and the collective. @acls1919.bsky.social's Joy Connolly: "Today’s decision is a step toward honoring the will of Congress and our mission as a nation—to... know ourselves and build a better future on that knowledge.." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

Evidently the folks in the Vatican don't recognize when it's proper to pump their arms in the air and sing "Buh, buh, buh". But I am still charmed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XFR...

Interesting read

Announcing the 2024 DataWorks! Prize Winners In early 2024, ODSS partnered with the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) to launch the second annual DataWorks! Prize to highlight examples of innovative data sharing and reuse. datascience.nih.gov/dataworks/da...

The site is an experiment to have AI agents “freely discuss science and see where that will lead us”. #AI #science doi.org/10.1038/d415...

A Framework for Books and AI in the Public Interest Two years ago, Dave Hansen, the Executive Director of Authors Alliance, and I wrote “Books Are Big AI's Achilles' Heel,” a piece on how the leading AI companies… https://ift.tt/4S8DzeJ

Clarivate Introduces Nexus Connect/ (I rarely say this about corporate press releases, but in this instance, make sure you read all of the description of the product.) clarivate.com/news/clariva...

The thing of it is that all technology has the potential of driving both good and bad outcomes. It's all in how the individual leverages the power of the machine. (Although the black box needs to be better at explaining biases...)

From @oclc.org New Report: Library Beyond the Library offers ideas as to how your institution can apply their framework to enhance visibility, impact, and long-term sustainability. www.oclc.org/research/pub...

Metadata is critical to discovery, to the scholarly record, and to research integrity. It would be great if people would focus on the whys and hows of delivering *robust* metadata.

We’ve been developing best practice guidance for usage metrics associated with generative and agentic AI. Today, we're delighted to say that they're live at www.countermetrics.org/code-of-prac... Our work is community led. Huge thanks go to our dedicated working group for getting us to this point!

Quite pleased today to hear on one of the political commentary broadcasts an analyst make the following statement as something quite ordinary. "My mother, an Episcopal priest, said..." There is a rising population for whom that is a perfectly normal thing.

Yet another misuse of artificial intelligence tools. www.404media.co/blockade-the...

Latest update on book restrictions in libraries: bookriot.com/book-bans-an...

“Books are patient where we are slow to understand, allow us to go over the hard parts as many times as we wish, and are never critical of our lapses. Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.” — Carl Sagan

"The cage has always had architects. What is new is that, for the first time, most of us cannot see them — or the walls they are building."

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

Read this one and pay attention to what is said about funding.

Anthropic and Claude Mythos www.platformer.news/anthropic-my...

Surveys examine the impact of zero-click search on libraries, librarians, content usage, and publisher responses." www.researchinformation.info/news/crocodi...

Pointing to good work by the publishing community. www.stm-publishing.com/the-society-...

Happy Easter share.google/EOjdbsY8MVc7...

This is a good step forward for the information industry. niso.org/press-releas...

The MCP catalog integration, for which additional testing is planned, is just one of the approaches to AI use in research that the library is pursuing. From Yale University Library: library.yale.edu/news/yale-li...

@jstordaily.bsky.social explores the “completely true” history of April Fools' Day, walking through theories that range from calendar changes to centuries-old traditions of mischief and even language-based clues. daily.jstor.org/the-complete... #AprilFools #ScholComm #TrustButVerify

Our Responsible Publishing Report sets out how we’re turning values into action. Learn about our 3Ps: Planet, People and Prosperity, and read about what we did in defence of academic freedom in 2025. All that and much more on the report you can read here: https://bit.ly/4dTffas

Today is #NoKings day. Find your location at NoKings.org

COS is pleased to welcome Chris Bourg (MIT) and Marcus Munafò (University of Bath) to our Board of Directors. Their leadership in equitable open scholarship, research culture reform, and metascience will help shape how the next phase of our work unfolds. 🎉

The ceremony was lovely. Both planners and participants conveyed precisely the right message to those of us with membership in this Communion.

Drafted by the MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching, the latest statement from the MLA "asserts that centering communication as a human act is at the core of our work as educators." Learn more: mla.org/EC-actions

Not nearly as easy as it sounds, I'm sure, but requiring reading and adjusting classroom behavior is necessary. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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That's more than one book for every 100 Americans published last year. The median American read two books each year. If we up production a little more, say x200, totally manageable with AI, we can have enough for each of us to read two no one else reads www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

"The Physical AI Tech Stack... for industrial progress machines is not for the faint of heart. It requires a polymath organization spanning many domains from sensors and compute to manufacturing, chemistry and real estate." See vision for atoms.co/vision from former head of Uber.

Not really crazy about this one. The author notes he personally benefited from mentoring by an older scientist, but that's not going to continue apparently as a practice. www.science.org/content/arti...

Gift article from The New York Times. You can read it without a subscription (as long as you provide an email). Article has to do with fake AI generated photos serving as propoganda. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The creation of quality metadata requires both firm commitment as well as financial support. See announcement from DOAJ. blog.doaj.org/2026/03/03/d...

"Just as we don’t sip an earthy red in order to work our way through the stocks in a cellar, we shouldn’t read just to diminish the pile of books on our desk. There is pleasure in an attentive sip."

HEADS UP -- Discovery is rapidly shifting blog.growkudos.com/news/elsevie...

Ithaka Project -- Incorporating Evironmental Perspectives into AI Literacy sr.ithaka.org/blog/incorpo...

If you're a journalist, why wouldn't you want a full 8-hour day freed up from having to actually WRITE something?