Welcome to LJAN Resources, our monthly academic content roundup. We’ll be curating standout InfoDocket posts and nonfiction LJ book reviews once every month for quick access to news and reviews you can use. |
From Infodocket: Journal Article: “To Preprint or Not to Preprint: A Global Researcher Survey” Abstract: Open science is receiving widespread attention globally, and preprinting offers an important way to implement open science practices in scholarly publishing. To develop a systematic understanding of researchers’ adoption of and attitudes toward preprinting, we conducted a survey of authors of research papers published in 2021 and early 2022. |
SPONSORED BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Your 2024 Travel Guide [Reading List]
For those ready to become frequent flyers in the upcoming year, our curated reading list features ten exceptional books that will ignite your wanderlust and serve as invaluable companions on your journeys. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, practical travel tips, or a deeper understanding of the world, these books have got you covered.
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Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab Launches the Open Legal AI Workbench From a Library Innovation Lab Post: We want academics and nonprofits at the table in discovering the next generation of legal interfaces and helping to close the justice gap. It is not at all clear yet which legal AI tools and interfaces will work effectively for people with different levels of skill, what kind of guardrails they need, and what kind of matters they can help with. We need to try a lot of ideas and effectively compare them to each other. |
Scholarly Publishing: PeerJ is Becoming Part of Taylor & Francis Leading research publisher Taylor & Francis has announced the addition of PeerJ, a pioneer in broad-scope open access (OA) journals. PeerJ is best known for its multidisciplinary flagship title PeerJ Life & Environment serving the biological, medical, and environmental sciences and PeerJ Computer Science (covering all areas of computer science, including AI, quantum, and robotics). In addition, PeerJ offers five titles in the chemical sciences, meaning that in total Taylor & Francis will welcome seven new journals to its open research program. |
Ithaka S+R Releases “Generative AI in Higher Education: The Product Landscape” (Issue Brief and Product Tracker) From an Ithaka S+R Blog Post: As part of our Making AI Generative for Higher Education project, conducted in partnership with 19 colleges and universities, Ithaka S+R has been closely tracking the GAI [generative AI] product landscape through a unique Product Tracking Tool. The Product Tracker includes a basic description of GAI tools marketed towards postsecondary faculty or student users, as well as information about the pricing model, key features, and other relevant details such as the large language model or datasets behind the tool or background on the vendor. The Product Tracker is a living document, which we update regularly as new products come to market or new information about existing products becomes available. |
SCIENCES The Well-Connected Animal: Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies By Lee Alan Dugatkin This fascinating, easy-to-read work describes the how, what, and why of animal behavior, much of which is remarkably similar to humans. A must-purchase, this book presents what is easily the most intriguing, thorough explanation of animal behavior ever produced. Mosquito Warrior: Yellow Fever, Public Health, and the Forgotten Career of General William C. Gorgas By Carol R. Byerly This fascinating book is as much of an account of mosquito-borne illnesses, research, and treatment as it is the story of Gorgas’s life. Will draw biography, military history, and medical history readers. Superfoods, Silkworms, and Spandex: Science and Pseudoscience in Everyday Life By Joe Schwarcz This highly informative, authoritative title makes solid science accessible and entertaining, and it keeps alive the author’s tradition of clearly differentiating pseudoscience and quackery from empirical science. Schwarcz’s fans will love this latest book, and he’ll likely gain a new following as well. Nicely supplements The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan and Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer. |
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