“A new paper The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration… Continue Reading
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Finance, Economics & Banking (FEB-RN) Research Paper Series
SSRN – “FEB-RN research paper series promotes open access and dissemination of high-quality empirical, theoretical, and descriptive research across all the major fields of finance, economics and banking. The series will include papers from the interconnected global research community. FEB-RN advocates knowledge sharing through the extensive networks of scholars, PhD students, and practitioners. It aims… Continue Reading
Policy Map – Where to Find Trump’s Disappeared Data
“The administration removed hundreds of federal web pages containing critical information about Americans. Fortunately, it still lives at Philly-based PolicyMap, whose director walks us through what just happened — and why it’s too soon to Last week, President Donald Trump came for our data. Executive orders to eliminate any DEI and climate change-related language from… Continue Reading
Announcing the Data.gov Archive
Harvard Law School Library: “Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov. This is the first release in our… Continue Reading
Update on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive
“Every four years, before and after the U.S. presidential election, a team of libraries and research organizations, including the Internet Archive, work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. These “End of Term” (EOT) Web Archive projects have been completed for term transitions in 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, and… Continue Reading
Harvard Announces the Data.gov Archive
Harvard Law School Innovation Lab: “Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. It will be updated daily as new datasets are added to data.gov. This is the first release in… Continue Reading
What Is OpenAI’s Powerful New Deep Research Tool Capable Of?
LawSites: I Use It to Analyze the Legality of President Trump’s Pause of Federal Grants – “Over the weekend, OpenAI released Deep Research, an AI agent capable of completing multi-step research tasks and synthesizing large amounts of online information. OpenAI’s chief product officer Kevin Weil said it can complete complex research tasks in minutes that… Continue Reading
Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Law Libraries
Parsons, Patrick and Niedringhaus, Kristina L. and Zhang, Alex, Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Law Libraries (December 01, 2024). Georgia State University College of Law, Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5118446 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5118446 – “The Southeast Roundtable Report summarizes the discussions from a day-long conference held on March 1, 2024, at… Continue Reading
AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library
404 Media -“Low quality books that appear to be AI generated are making their way into public libraries via their digital catalogs, forcing librarians who are already understaffed to either sort through a functionally infinite number of books to determine what is written by humans and what is generated by AI, or to spend taxpayer… Continue Reading
Archive of deleted CDC datasets
Internet Archive: A complete archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025. Under the direction of Trump, the CDC has been removing data related to gender, vaccines, and climate change. Continue Reading
OpenAI’s ‘Deep Research’ Gives Students a Whole New Way to Cheat on Papers
Gizmodo: “Very few former students can claim they never wrote a last-minute research paper the night before it was due. AI tools are already giving students all new ways to fake their papers. Now, OpenAI’s new “Deep Research” tool seems perfectly designed to help students fake their way through a term paper unless asked to cite… Continue Reading
Tips for Searching in Chronicling America
“Chronicling America has a new look! This month, we’ll be exploring the new Chronicling America interface and providing tips on how to best use the new site. In this series of posts, we’ll show you how to use multiple keyword search options and facet your search results to narrow your search. We’ll also look at… Continue Reading
