The Authority File Wrap-Up 2024: Most Listened To Episodes

The top episodes of the podcast in the past year—according to our listeners

Posted on December 12, 2024 in Blog

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Episode 359: The Intersection of Critical Thinking Skills and AI: Benefits, Pitfalls, and Setting the Scene

Our guests dive into the benefits and pitfalls of critical thinking and generative AI. They discuss the collaborative element of critical thinking, and how that characteristic can guide users’ approach to AI by building thoughtful prompts and checking (seemingly) authoritative sources. Further, they chat about the significant flaws in current generative AI, such as data privacy, bias, copyright issues, and overall obfuscation of how these tools are created. Last, the guests reflect on the lack of consensus over whether AI helps or hinders critical thinking. Listen to Episode 359.

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Episode 367: The Current Landscape of Digital Collections and Access

Nathan Rupp, Acquisitions & E-Resources Librarian at Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies, provides an overview of the current landscape for digital collections. Surfacing key concerns like industry consolidation and rising vendor costs, Nathan highlights changes in content acquisition types that extend beyond journals, print or e-books, and databases. As our guest explains, in addition to licensing data sets, Purdue has started to introduce artificial intelligence tools to campus. Listen to Episode 367.

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Episode 382: Springer Nature’s Editorial and Publication Strategies for the SDGs

Ritu Dhand, Chief Scientific Officer at Springer Nature, digs into Springer Nature’s editorial and publication strategies that support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Aiming to create community and collaboration around the Goals, Springer has introduced initiatives to make SDG content more discoverable and fit the modern scholar’s needs. Ritu also explains the business factors that went into Springer’s adoption of the SDGs and the sustainable publishing practices implemented internally. Listen to Episode 382.

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Episode 379: Defining Predatory Journals and What’s at Stake

Ashley Carroll, Project Manager, Yasmeen Zubair, Journals Manager, Ruth Bailey, Journal Auditor, and Mike Bisaccio, Director of Marketing & Communications, all of Cabells, define predatory publishing, underscoring a journal’s display of fraudulent or deceptive behaviors to appear legitimate with the clear intent of collecting fees from researchers. Further, they share the overwhelming number of predatory journals identified by Cabells, and walk through the various stakeholders vulnerable to these journals and what’s at stake for the scholarly community. Listen to Episode 379.

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Episode 389: The Library’s Role in Open Access Publishing and Pledge to Open

Jamie Hutchins, Director of Open Research, Americas for Taylor & Francis Group, discusses the library’s role in open access publishing. Jamie describes the publisher’s initial contact with libraries when recruiting for Pledge to Open, a collective model for institutions to fund open access titles on global challenges. Our guest shares thoughts on how the US falls behind in contributing government funding to open HSS publishing, and why the library acts as an access point to aid in bankrolling this work. Listen to Episode 389.

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Episode 396: AI In Librarianship Trends, New LTI White Paper, and Choice Reviews of AI Products

Daniel Pfeiffer, the social sciences and LibTech Insights (LTI) editor at Choice, chats with TAF host Bill Mickey about general trends in AI librarianship, the forthcoming AI literacy white paper from LTI, and Choice’s decision to begin reviewing AI products. Listen to Episode 396.

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Episode 391: Exploring Ecologies in Practice and Environmental Humanities

The coeditors of Ecologies in Practice: Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada, Elysia French, Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Brock University, and Amanda White, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Curating in the Department of Visual Art at Western University, share their research interests and how their friendship in the academy lead to Ecologies in Practice. They describe the Environmental Humanities, explaining how the field creates collaborative spaces for interdisciplinary approaches to the arts and environmental studies. Listen to Episode 391.

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Episode 378: How AI Will (and Won’t) Impact Library Work

In the final episode of this four-part series on the recent white paper from Technology from Sage and Skilltype on the librarian skills landscape, our guests look at how artificial intelligence technologies will (or won’t) impact the library workforce and successful support mechanisms to help staff develop their skills. Listen to Episode 378.

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Episode 375: Connecting Personal Experience with Scholarship

Dale Jacobs, author of On Comics and Grief, discusses the book’s creative nonfiction framework that blends comics studies scholarship with the grief over the loss of his mother. Dale takes us back to the beginning of the title, starting with an article that saw his nostalgia and grief as an access point into the text, rather than a roadblock. Walking through the evolution of the book structure, Dale describes the largely intuitive writing process, guided by a general outline of comics to analyze and connections to family memories. Listen to Episode 375.

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Episode 397: Introducing Our Guests and the Goals of Open Research

Natya Hans, Informatics and Reproducibility Librarian in the Academic Research and Consulting Services Department at University of Florida and Emily McElroy and Jamie Hutchins, both of Taylor & Francis, introduce their roles and involvement in the open research environment. They distinguish between open research and open access, and share how librarians can help authors adopt the principles of open research through research office partnerships, support for open data, and general outreach. Listen to Episode 397.

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