The Guardian: “Books by Margaret Atwood, Judy Blume, Rupi Kaur and Sarah J Maas are among 13 titles that the state of Utah has ordered to be removed from all public school classrooms and libraries. This marks the first time a state has outlawed a list of books statewide, according to PEN America’s Jonathan Friedman,… Continue Reading
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Why “Wisdom Work” Is the New “Knowledge Work”
Harvard Business Review: “Today the workforce is getting older, and the number of younger workers in positions of senior management is growing. These two developments might appear to spell trouble, in that they seem to set the generations against one another, but the author of this article argues that in fact they represent an important… Continue Reading
To preserve their work and drafts of history journalists take archiving into their own hands
NiemanLabs – From loading up the Wayback Machine to meticulous AirTables to 72 hours of scraping, journalists are doing whatever they can to keep their clips when websites go dark: “When news sites shut down, those sites’ owners often don’t prioritize the preservation of the content. MTV pulled down MTV News in June. After Deadspin… Continue Reading
How Long to Read – Find reading times for millions of books
“How Long to Read is a book search engine that helps you find out how long it will take to read books and provide reading time data that is tailored to you. With our simple WPM (words per minute) test you can find out how long it will take you to read almost anything, and… Continue Reading
An open copyright casebook, featuring AI, Warhol and more
Pluralistic: “Few debates invite more uninformed commentary than “IP” – a loosely defined grab bag that regulates an ever-expaning sphere of our daily activities, despite the fact that almost no one, including senior executives in the entertainment industry, understands how it works. Take reading a book. If the book arrives between two covers in the… Continue Reading
When scientific citations go rogue: Uncovering ‘sneaked references’
Via LLRX – When scientific citations go rogue: Uncovering ‘sneaked references’ – Reading and writing articles published in academic journals and presented at conferences is a central part of being a researcher. When researchers write a scholarly article, they must cite the work of peers to provide context, detail sources of inspiration and explain differences in… Continue Reading
How good is your metadata?
Via Mastodon – Ludo Waltman@[email protected] Scientific Director and Professor of Quantitative Science Studies @cwts, @universiteitleiden; Open Science Ambassador @universiteitleiden; Co-chair @RoRInstitute; President @ASAPbio; Editor-in-Chief MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review); Former Editor-in-Chief @QSS_ISSI University libraries now have easy access to the information they need to include openness of publication metadata in their negotiations with publishers. Try it… Continue Reading
The best titles of the year to date
The Economist [unpaywalled] – All titles on this eclectic [fiction and non fiction] and wide ranging list were published in America or Britain in 2024. For more on the latest books, films, TV shows, albums and controversies, sign up to Plot Twist, a weekly subscriber-only newsletter. Continue Reading
Academic authors ‘shocked’ after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI
The Bookseller: “Authors have expressed their shock after the news that academic publisher Taylor & Francis, which owns Routledge, had sold access to its authors’ research as part of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnership with Microsoft—a deal worth almost £8m ($10m) in its first year. The agreement with Microsoft was included in a trading update… Continue Reading
Tell Congress: Don’t Let Anyone Own The Law
EFF: “Court after court has recognized that no one can own the text of the law. But the Pro Codes Act is a deceptive power grab that will help giant industry associations ration access to huge swaths of U.S. laws. Tell Congress not to fall for it. A large portion of the regulations we all… Continue Reading
What the New York Times Missed: 71 More of the Best Books of the 21st Century
Lit Hub: “Last week, The New York Times Book Review published a list of the “100 Best Books of the 21st Century.” (Well, so far, obviously. Why not just call it the best books of the last 25 years? Do they know something we don’t? Oh well.) To put it together, the Book Review surveyed “hundreds of… Continue Reading
The Public Domain Review
“Founded in 2011, The Public Domain Review is an online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. As our name suggests, the focus is on works now fallen into the public domain, that vast commons of out-of-copyright material that everyone is… Continue Reading
