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CT e-book licensing bill awaits governor's signature, research integrity developments, and a new publishing symposium

Posted on May 23, 2025 in News

AI’s Impact on Librarians and the Workforce, Plus a New T&F Partnership

The latest segment of Technology from Sage’s Librarian Futures report centers on librarians’ roles when it comes to AI. In particular, the report finds that while a majority of students utilize AI, “just 8% [of over 1,000 students surveyed] say they’ve received support from their librarian in doing so.” Students also report concerns over research integrity and academic overwhelm. Thus, Matt Hayes, Managing Director of Technology from Sage, underlines, “The call to action is clear: librarians must actively and unapologetically embed themselves in these emerging AI workflows.” Next up, a study conducted by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and Poland’s National Research Institute (NASK) examines AI’s influence on the workforce. Of note, the study reveals that “1 in 4 jobs worldwide is potentially exposed to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).” Last, Taylor & Francis and vLex, a legal intelligence company, are partnering to “integrate 400 premium Taylor & Francis legal book titles into vLex’s AI-powered legal research assistant, Vincent.”

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Connecticut E-Book Licensing Bill Awaits Governor’s Signature

Following the rejection of several court cases addressing e-book licensing in recent years, a similar Connecticut bill now awaits the decision of Governor Ned Lamont. Passed by the Senate and the House, the bill aims to prevent publishers from limiting libraries’ e-book “license terms or checkout limits during the term of a license without offering agreements on ‘commercially reasonable terms’ that align with the library mission.” The bill would also prevent publishers from restricting interlibrary loans and the creation of “preservation copies.” Nonetheless, Library Futures underscores that the bill includes a provision that prohibits it from going into effect “until a state or states with a combined population of 7 million adopt similar laws.” CT Mirror also had coverage, addressing responses from librarians and comments from Umair Kazi, director of policy and advocacy at The Authors Guild, who disputed the bill.

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Creators for Europe United’s AI Copyright Letter and Updates from the CCC

Publishing Perspectives reports that the Creators for Europe United’s open letter to the European Commission now has 10,000 signatures. Directed to the European Commission’s executive vice-president for technological sovereignty, security, and democracy, the letter concerns transparency around AI training data and remuneration for creators. The letter also calls for the “Involvement of the culture, creative, and media industries in all regulatory processes for AI governance.” Next, the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) highlighted services and sessions it will present at the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting this month. Services include enhancements to RightsLink Author Services and a beta launch of Ringgold Researchers. In addition, CCC is adding its “Get It Now” tool to EBSCO Information Services’ EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). The addition will allow “students, faculty, and researchers at higher education institutions to request and access individual journal articles from within the EDS search and discovery platform.”

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Research Integrity News: Cactus Collaboration, New Dashboard, and Tracking Retractions

First up, Cactus Communications and Silverchair announced a new collaboration. Under the partnership, Cactus Communications’ Paperpal Preflight for Editorial Desk (PPE) will be added to ScholarOne workflows, “provid[ing] a targeted suite of AI-driven checks to detect research integrity risks, ensure technical compliance, and evaluate language quality.” Cactus Communications shared that PPE also “integrates PhD-level human reviews that conduct spot audits and in-depth analyses.” Next, River Valley Technologies created a Research Integrity Dashboard as part of its submission and review platform, ReView 3.0. The dashboard is customizable and includes AI-detection and plagiarism checks, among other features. Finally, Taylor & Francis is adding GetFTR indicators to its journal articles’ references. New buttons will appear on citations to “inform readers when cited research has been retracted or updated.”

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Piedmont Publishing Symposium and AUPress’s Annual Report

Clemson University Press, Hub City Press, University of South Carolina Press, and the University of North Georgia (UNG) Press are hosting a new annual publishing event, the Piedmont Publishing Symposium. Scheduled for May 28-29, the event seeks to “foster dialogue, opportunity and growth within the Southeastern professional publishing and writing community.” Those interested can view a list of sessions on the symposium’s website. In other publishing news, the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) released its latest annual report. The report spotlights several of the association’s achievements in the past year, in addition to AUPresses’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and work in the humanities.

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