Wolf Feuerhahn: You are part of the founding team of a new publisher of a very particular kind, intercom Verlag. Could you present your project and the reasons that led you to found the publishing ...

Copim’s Archiving and Preservation Group is happy to announce the publication of a new report, Applying Open Access and Open Data to the Archiving of Long-Form Scholarship, with which we present a…

New jobs are being advertised in the scholarly communications sector focused on developing AI research tools, but do they require librarians to have new skills?

Some say scrapping the parliament for 11 to 18-year-olds would be a blow for democracy, while others say it is overdue.

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This webinar from the Library’s Sustainable Collecting Group will explore the collection lifecycle and how sustainability can be considered at each stage.

The University of Brighton is considering plans that could see its Falmer campus close by 2030 as part of a major overhaul of its estate

Join us on Wednesday, 16th September at 8:00pm (BST) with our guest contributors, Alyson Lewis (@alysonklewis.bsky.social‬) and Heather Pennington (@heatherpennington.bsky.social) for a though…

Drawing on SPARC Europe’s recent positioning paper, The Case for Connecting the Opens, this session explored how a more coordinated, values-driven approach can unlock synergies, reduce fragmentation,…

Writing for Mass Observation You can apply to write for the archive here. Current Observers If you are one of our current Observers you may find our handbook for new Observers helpful. This has all th...

An AI researcher who recently resigned from Google DeepMind warned humanity is running out of time to prevent artificial intelligence from causing widespread harm, the latest staffer to voice concerns about the direction of the technology.

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Courts are grappling with chatbots that provided legal counsel, generated evidence or helped plan a mass shooting. Who’s liable for the AI agents doing crimes all on their own?

LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) is the voice of Europe’s research library community.

Voracious readers in India are turning to a centuries-old private lending system as public libraries fall short.

Listen to expert on shadow libraries Balázs Bodó on The Conversation Weekly podcast.

There is not a single cause but several interwoven ones. The hypothesis with the most weight points to the development of our brain and the origin of language: gestures

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Since Wednesday, Google has started displaying artificial intelligence-generated responses, known as AI Overviews, for certain queries, rather than the traditional list of links. Website publishers an...

From Dervla Murphy’s Northern Ireland to Elena Ferrante’s Naples, readers share the stories that inspired them to travel• Tell us about a trip to Europe’s lakes and mountains – the best tip wins a £20...

A German court ruled on Friday that ​AI music firm Suno has violated ‌copyrights and has to provide information on illicit revenue, part of a wider legal battle ​by artists and publishers against tech...

From Manchester to Bristol, these are the 15 best independent bookshops in the UK to visit

Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’

Britain's Bloomsbury ​Publishing confirmed on Wednesday it was among ‌the beneficiaries of a landmark $1.5 billion settlement that resolves claims artificial intelligence ​company Anthropic used copyrighted books ​to train its AI models without ⁠purchasing the content.

Artificial intelligence (AI)—like many technologies before—comes with hope and worry about its implications for education. In this essay, using generative AI as...

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We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.