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Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences Why open educational resources should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.

In this new article from @lseimpactblog.bsky.social, @niamhtumelty.bsky.social Managing Director of LSE Press, and @heroicendeavour.bsky.social discuss open educational resources in the context of higher education.

Read the full post:
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An advert for the Scottish Universities Press webinar 'A practical guide to open research'. Date: Wednesday 22 October Time: 09:30am to 12:30pm Register: https://bit.ly/4q6n2pl

Calling library and professional services staff! Do you want to learn more about open research and how it impacts on your role?

Join us during #OAWeek for 'A Practical Guide to Open Research'!

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The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bi...

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Wall Street Banks Warn of $1.2T AI Debt Risks Amid Investment Surge Wall Street banks like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are warning of risks from soaring debt in AI companies, reaching a record $1.2 trillion amid massive investments in infrastructure. This shift from ca...

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BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

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The Interview: Louis Coiffait-Gunn | Legal Information Management | Cambridge Core The Interview: Louis Coiffait-Gunn - Volume 25 Issue 2

Our CEO, @louiscoiffait-gunn.bsky.social was interviewed by the Legal Information Management journal for the British & Irish Association of Law Librarians @biall.org.uk. Law librarians are an impressively innovative & highly commercial part of the #CILIP community:

UK workers wary of AI despite Starmer’s push to increase uptake, survey finds Exclusive: A third of those polled do not tell bosses about use of tools and half think AI threatens the social structure

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Book Launch: Case Teaching in the Era of AI Celebrate the publication of a new open access book from LSE Press - Navigating the 21st Century Business World: Case Studies in Management.

Join Dorottya Sallai and Alexander Pepper for the launch of the #OpenAccess case studies Navigating the 21st Century Business World 📖 📅

Thur 2nd Oct | 6 - 8:30 pm | LSE Alumni Centre

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Discover the European Court of Human Rights!

👉 The Court will open its doors to all of you on Sunday, 21 September from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m

✨We are waiting for you!

Check out the full programme ⬇️

More information: www.echr.coe.int/w/open-day-a...

AI in Libraries - Horizon Scanning Bodleian Libraries Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

📢📢📢 How are library professionals approaching, experiencing, viewing the application of #AI & LMs in conducting, supplementing or supporting institutional library work? A survey by @ox.ac.uk Centre for digital scholarship is looking for your insights.
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Generative AI Lawsuits Timeline: Legal Cases vs. OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, Nvidia, Perplexity, Intel and More - Sustainable Tech Partner for IT Service Providers A list of copyright lawsuits vs. ChatGPT maker OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, Anthropic, Midjourney, Perplexity, Stability AI, DeviantArt & generative AI software businesses. Plus, a timeline of content l...

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Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’ Mustafa Suleyman says that designing AI systems to exceed human intelligence—and to mimic behavior that suggests consciousness—would be “dangerous and misguided.”

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ASML and Mistral agree €1.3bn blockbuster European AI deal Dutch chip equipment maker backs French artificial intelligence champion as US-China tensions rock tech industry

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Pile of books with sentence stating National read a book day.

Happy reading on #NationalReadABookDay #ReadABookDay

NCUB secures four-year Research England funding to strengthen university-business collaboration The National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB) has secured a new four-year funding commitment from Research England to boost collaboration between academia and industry.

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📢 NLISN In Person Event! 📢

Adjustments in the LIS Workplace for Neurodivergent Staff
Monday, October 6 · 10am – 3:30pm GMT+1
Leeds Beckett University, Headingly Campus
£25.00

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The names of panel members for the criteria-setting phase of REF 2029 have now been announced on our panels pages. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/expert-...

Vallance announces three-month pause in REF - Research Professional News Science minister announces hiatus but says results still on track for 2029

🚨BREAKING🚨

Patrick Vallance announces three-month pause in REF.

Science minister announces hiatus but says results for next Research Excellence Framework still on track for 2029.

Free to read:
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Public views on the ‘convenience’ of AI tools are not the same as AI developers and policymakers - Impact of Social Sciences A key selling point of AI tools is their convenience to users. Drawing on new survey data, Katie O’Brien finds public perceptions of what this means in practice to be far more nuanced than simply…

💥 New: Public views on the ‘convenience’ of AI tools are not the same as AI developers and policymakers

✍️ Kathleen O'Brien (@digitalgoodnet.bsky.social) #AI #AIethics #Convenience

Banned! The 20 books they didn’t want you to read From Instagram poetry to Greek classics, the works of fiction that have caused uproar through history – and into the present

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Debbie Schachter, Priscilla Nga Ian Pun

Book Launch of three new titles in the IFLA publication series on AI, Digital Literacy and Education for Sustainable Develpoment. More information:
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#WLIC2025 #IFLAPublications

REF halts panel announcements as rumours swirl over changes - Research Professional News Universities ordered to cease communication around Research Excellence Framework panel members

REF halts panel announcements as rumours swirl over changes.

Universities ordered to cease communication around Research Excellence Framework panel members. Announcements were expected today.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

The #IFLA_E4GDH has published a briefing summarising the research evidence on the role of libraries in supporting the climate change agenda repository.ifla.org/items/75a9bf... #E4GDH #ITOCA #ifla_hbs #chla-absc @cilip.bsky.social @infolitgroup.bsky.social @ifla.org

FAIR for research software (FAIR4RS) – Can funders keep up with open science developments? - Impact of Social Sciences A new survey of international funders finds recognition of the FAIR principles for research software lags well behind the FAIR framework for data management.

💥 New: FAIR for research software (FAIR4RS) – Can funders keep up with open science developments?

✍️ Eric A. Jensen & @danielskatz.org #OpenResearch #FAIR4RS #ResearchFunding

WA lawyer referred to regulator after preparing documents with AI-generated citations for nonexistent cases Judge warns of ‘inherent dangers’ of lawyers relying solely on AI amid growing number of fake citations or other errors due to the technology

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biall.org.uk/membership-r... The presentations from the 2025 BIALL Conference, which took place from June 11 to June 13 in Birmingham, are now available in the Member Resources section of the BIALL website. #BIALL2025

Accessibility standard implementation and OA publishers Joanne Fitzpatrick and Jordy Findanis summarise the key points learned from consultations about accessibility with a range of small diamond open access monograph publishers.

[BLOG] Accessibility standard implementation and #OpenAccess publishers

Read @jofitz.bsky.social summary of the key points learned from consultations about accessibility with a range of small #DiamondOA monograph publishers 📚

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UK universities explore merging language courses as enrolment falls Institutions discuss closer collaboration and sharing resources amid funding concerns

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