Internet Archive Switzerland: Expanding a Global Mission to Preserve Knowledge

Thirty years ago, Brewster Kahle founded the Internet Archive with an ambitious goal: Universal Access to All Knowledge. Today, that mission continues to grow with an exciting new chapter: the […]

Wayback Machine Director: We Are ‘Collateral Damage’ in the Fight Between AI Companies and Publishers

In the latest episode of the Future Knowledge podcast, “Preserving the Web in the Age of AI,” Wayback Machine director Mark Graham, tech policy expert Mike Masnick, and media lawyer […]

Zero-Click Readership: Are AI Overviews Changing the Way We Discover Research

Today's post asks: If research is increasingly accessed through AI-generated summaries rather than via primary sources, then what does it mean to “engage with research” at all?

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Stronger Together: BioOne and Johns Hopkins University Press Join Forces

Today BioOne and Johns Hopkins University Press announced that they're joining forces. Learn more in this interview with Lauren Kane, Barbara Kline Pope, and Wendy Queen

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Johns Hopkins University Press and BioOne Announce Landmark Nonprofit Integration

Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Integration Announcement: Johns Hopkins University Press (Hopkins Press) and BioOne today announced their merger, in a bold move designed to enhance community impact, expand future opportunities, and transform how they engage with researchers. BioOne’s flagship aggregation of bioscience research journals, BioOne Complete, as well as their eBook collections, will […]

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ARL Daily Intelligence (May 4–7)

Last Updated on May 5, 2026, 3:39 pm ET The ARL Daily Intelligence is the trusted source of news and analysis for library leaders and advocates. Released Monday through Thursday, the ARL Daily...

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EBSCO Information Services Appoints Allen Powell as Chief Executive Officer

Here’s the Full Text of Today’s Announcement From EBSCO: EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) announced the appointment of Allen Powell as Chief Executive Officer. Powell brings extensive experience across the organization and a strong understanding of the company’s customers, products and long-term strategy. Powell has served EBSCO in senior leadership roles for more than three decades. Most recently, he […]

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Just Announced: “The Cost of Knowledge” is the Theme For International Open Access Week 2026

From a SPARC Announcement: We create and share knowledge in order to advance human understanding and the common good. We recognize that accessing and sharing knowledge is a human right. Yet, the costs to access and share knowledge continue to increase, often dramatically. Why? Who benefits? Increasing consolidation and commercial control over all aspects of […]

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Mental Health Awareness Mondays — The Validation Trap: Rethinking Confidence Through Emotional Fitness

Today's Mental Health Awareness Monday reflects on the need for validation in publishing careers, and how we might reduce unnecessary pressure on performance while preserving rigor.

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On World Press Freedom Day, a Call to Keep the News Preserved

For nearly 30 years, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has worked alongside journalists, researchers, and the public to ensure that the web—and the news it carries—remains part of our shared […]

“Digital Preservation Policies in University Libraries: A Content Analysis” (Honors Theses)

The honors theses linked below was recently made available by the University of Southern Mississippi. Title Digital Preservation Policies in University Libraries: A Content Analysis (Honors Theses) Author Ramsey McManus Source via Aquila Digital Community  (University of Southern Mississippi) May 2026 Abstract In an increasingly digital world, libraries continue to expand their digital collections. As […]

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Journal Article: “User Perspectives on LINK: A Generative AI Chatbot for Academic Libraries”

The article linked below was recently published by The Journal of Academic Librarianship. Title User Perspectives on LINK: A Generative AI Chatbot for Academic Libraries Authors Evan Fruehauf University of South Florida LeEtta Schmidt University of South Florida Amanda Boczar University of South Florida Source The Journal of Academic Librarianship Volume 52, Issue 4, July […]

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Journal Article: Publications Produced and Services Offered by Library Publishing Programs in the United States and Canada: A Data-Driven Analysis

The article linked below was published today by the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. Title Publications Produced and Services Offered by Library Publishing Programs in the United States and Canada: A Data-Driven Analysis Authors Johanna Meetz The Ohio State University Jeff Story| Intel Corporation Source Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication 14(1), eP20194 (2026) […]

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“Harnessing the Data Renaissance for Scientific Discovery” (Video Recording of Closing Plenary; Coalition For Networked Information (CNI) Spring 2026 Membership Meeting)

Here’s the video recording of the closing plenary talk (recorded at the Spring 2026 CNI Membership Meeting in Salt Lake City) by Manish Parashar, Executive Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute; Inaugural Chief AI Officer; Presidential Professor, University of Utah. Manish is introduced by  Kate Zwaard, CNI Executive Director The current data renaissance, accelerated by advances […]

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“Libraries Leading Campus AI: Claiming Our Seat at the Table” (Video Recording of Opening Plenary; Coalition For Networked Information (CNI) Spring 2026 Membership Meeting)

Here’s the video recording of the opening plenary talk (recorded at the Spring 2026 CNI Membership Meeting in Salt Lake City) by Rebekah Cummings, Director of Digital Matters and Head of Open Scholarship and Data Services, University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library. Rebekah is introduced by  Kate Zwaard, CNI Executive Director Artificial intelligence (AI) has […]

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Shaping Our Collective Voice Through Advocacy — SSP Pulse Check Report

This month’s Pulse Check survey focuses on our community's views on advocacy, industry priorities, and challenges of engaging with policymakers and the public.

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Public Libraries Jump On Board the Our Future Memory Movement

The Our Future Memory movement was already building momentum with flagship library organizations like IFLA, ALA, and SPARC. But now, local and regional library systems from across the United States […]

Spring 2026

Last Updated on April 30, 2026, 3:26 pm ET ARL Monitor: Public Edition (Spring 2026) In the Government Affairs section of this issue, the Trump budget targets social science and Congress grapples...

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Guest Post — SSP Annual Meeting: The Highlights are Coming

Today, members of SSP's 48th Annual Meeting Program Committee share reflections for all attendees -- including those joining the Highlights Webinar on June 17, 2026.

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Stating the obvious? International indexing boosts submissions and visibility for scientific journals

Although the internationalization of journals published in Brazil has been a topic of debate for over a decade, the indexing of the REGEPE Entrepreneurship and Small Business Journal in international databases, such as SciELO and Scopus, has significantly increased its visibility, international reach, and editorial performance. The data were recently published in the study “Internationalization of Scientific Journals and Indexing in Databases: Evidence from REGEPE. Available only in Portuguese. …Read More →

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Guest Post – When Thinking Is Outsourced: A Warning from a Scientist Trained Before AI

Today's guest post sounds an alarm about the use of AI in research and warns that no amount of computational efficiency can compensate for the loss of our capacity for human thought.

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The May 2026 Issue of College and Research Libraries (C&RL) is Now Available Online

College and Research Libraries Vol. 87, No. 3 (May 2026) Table of Contents Download Full Issue (PDF) | Source Articles Publish or Perish? A Content Analysis of Scholarship Criteria in R1 Academic Libraries’ Promotion and Tenure Documentation [PDF] [HTML] Teresa Schultz, Emily E. Boss, Elena Azadbakht Not Just Monetary: Arts and Humanities Scholars’ Perspectives on the Costs of […]

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Security Incident Disclosure

Early, around 7:30am Pacific, on Tuesday, April 28th, high database load was detected on OpenLibrary.org. Investigation revealed a set of at least 38,703 residential IP addresses performing a coordinated sqlinjection attack on a vulnerable openlibrary.org endpoint, resulting in exfiltration of emails and encrypted passwords of 175,080 legacy accounts, registered before March, 2011. This table has […]

April 2026

Last Updated on April 28, 2026, 12:15 pm ET ARL Public Policy Briefing (April 2026) This month, the Trump administration extended the compliance dates for web content and mobile app...

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New Report: AI Use Across the North American Book Industry

From BookNet Canada and BISG: In the book industry, while some organizations have openly embraced AI, others have completely rejected it. Some are sitting on the sidelines, wondering if this is worth their time and attention, resources which are scarce and very valuable in an industry with thin margins such as this one In the […]

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Conference Paper (preprint): “Your Students Don’t Use LLMs Like You Wish They Did”

The preprint linked below will be presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Title Your Students Don’t Use LLMs Like You Wish They Did Authors Sebastian Kobler, Matthew Clemson, Angela Sun, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld Affiliation: The University of Sydney (All Authors) Source via arxiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2604.23486 Abstract Educational NLP […]

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Guest Post — Develop to Delegate: How Investing in Early-Career Professionals Strengthens Organizations

Today's guest post advocates for investing in the development of early-career professionals to foster a healthy pipeline of emerging talent in scholarly publishing.

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Information Stewardship Forum 2026: Creating Community and Purpose Around US Government Information

As soon as people started walking in the door, I breathed a sigh of relief. After months of careful (some might say obsessive) planning, we were kicking off the inaugural […]

Report: Trump’s Proposed Budget Threatens NC Library Programs, Including Shared Books List”

From The Charlotte Observer: Advocates are warning the Trump administration’s proposed federal budget could leave libraries in North Carolina without longstanding funding that pays for services across the state. [Clip] “These dollars fund a lot of essential services, whether we talk about digital skills training for all North Carolinians or online professional development for library […]

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Guest Post — Quality Over Quantity: Why Scholarly Publishing Needs Stronger Front-End Gatekeeping to Build Trust and Long-Term Value

Today's guest bloggers call publishers to lean into, rather than away from, their liability for science integrity and rigor.

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Matching funders in scholarly metadata: linking names to ROR IDs

In April 2025, we launched the metadata matching project, in order to add missing relationships to the scholarly metadata. We will do this by consolidating all existing and planned matching workflows, which enrich member-deposited metadata in Crossref. This unified service will result in a more complete research nexus. In this blog post, we share our latest milestone: developing and evaluating a strategy for matching funder metadata to Research Organization Registry (ROR) identifiers.

Key takeaways

• Funder matching links funding organisation names to persistent identifiers, helping us understand how research outputs are funded and supported.
• We built a new strategy to automatically match funder names in Crossref metadata to ROR identifiers.
• Evaluated on a manually labeled dataset of 3,505 funder names, the strategy achieves 99% precision and 81% recall.
• This is the first production deployment of Crossref’s new metadata matching framework, paving the way for future matching tasks across affiliations, references, grants, and more.

You can join us at our Community Update Call on 13th May for a brief demonstration of the funder matching process.

Introduction

In our recent blog post on metadata enrichment, we described the different ways that Crossref metadata can be enriched after its initial deposit, leading to a more complete research nexus. In this model, we can think of the metadata records served through the Crossref API as a result of several layers of enrichment applied on top of the initial deposit from a Crossref member. These layers may include member updates, community feedback, automated matching, and third-party datasets.

Metadata matching (layer 3) is when we use automated strategies to find missing relationships between entities within the scholarly record, such as relationships between research outputs, funding organisations, and grants, based on the unstructured information already present in the metadata. Our matching project aims to create a dedicated, consolidated metadata matching workflow that will eventually replace all existing production matching processes, with results made available through the REST API. We have identified the first six matching tasks that we’d like to tackle: funder name matching, bibliographic reference matching, preprint matching, affiliation matching, grant matching, and title matching.

Funder matching is a task of automatically finding an identifier of a funding organisation based on its name. Funder matching, when done well, improves the coverage and reliability of funding metadata, and the relationships between funding organisations and research outputs in particular. These relationships are critical for understanding how research is supported, tracking compliance with funder mandates, and enabling analyses of research investment.

Funder matching, as any type of matching, is not trivial because data can be noisy: the same organisation may appear under many variants, abbreviations, or translations, and some names are genuinely ambiguous. Our goal was to develop a matching strategy that results in a lot of additional identifiers while maintaining high quality of the results.

As part of this project, we will be switching the target identifier set for funder matching from the Funder Registry to the ROR registry, in line with our long-term plan to replace the Funder Registry with ROR. ROR provides an open, community-governed identifier system that is already used for affiliations and research institutions. It has become a well curated and widely-trusted catalog of organisations around the world involved in research, and it is very well suited to be the primary identifier for funders in Crossref. We are taking this opportunity to make a major move toward using ROR IDs.

This blog post describes the funder matching strategy we’ve developed and presents an evaluation of its performance, along with a new evaluation data set.

Overview of the funder matching strategy

At a high level, the funder matching strategy takes a funder name string from Crossref metadata as input and returns zero or one ROR IDs. While funder strings can occasionally map to more than one ROR ID, this strategy can only return at most one match per input string. Future versions of the strategy will allow for multiple matches.

The new matching strategy is based on the “single search” strategy previously developed at Crossref to match affiliation strings to ROR IDs, which is currently implemented in ROR’s API and which we plan to use to enrich affiliation metadata for works in Crossref. Funder matching and affiliation matching are similar tasks—they share the same target identifier set (ROR IDs), and they both use free-form text strings as their primary inputs. Most of these text strings are in English, so the strategy is optimized for English text; but the matching still works well on text in other languages, thanks in large part to ROR’s comprehensive catalog of multilingual alternate names.

However, there are also some differences in the way that these input strings tend to look across the two different tasks, so the strategy was adapted and refined specifically for funder matching. For example, affiliation strings are often much longer and contain information such as academic department and city/country in addition to the name of the institution; funder strings are usually more concise, which can often make it easy to identify an exact match in ROR, but requires more extensive exclusion criteria to prevent incorrect matches for generic names.

The flow chart diagram shows the basic steps that each funder name goes through when a match is attempted:

Flow chart diagram of the matching strategy’s steps to evaluate a funder name against potential ROR matches

After normalization, the name is compared to a list of country names and identifiers to identify if there is any country information. The name is then passed to a search engine—an indexed text-based search system such as Elasticsearch or OpenSearch—to retrieve a set of 15-20 possible candidates of ROR organisations with similar names. At this point, we use a set of filters to discard any name matches that are unlikely to be correct (i.e., they tend to produce false positives). Some examples include matches for very short names, or names that are very generic (think “Department of Education,” without any other indication of which larger entity it may be a department of).

At this point, we have a set of candidate ROR IDs, with a corresponding set of organization names that may match our funder name. We score these names by their similarity to the input name (using a fuzzy matching algorithm), then select the best candidate based on this score and a few other heuristic measures. As a final step, we ensure that, if we identified any country information in the early stages of the matching, the ROR ID that we matched is consistent—while developing the strategy, we learned that failure to do this would be a significant source of false positives.

A core principle of the matching strategy is that it is relatively conservative: at several points in the pipeline, the strategy can explicitly abstain and return no match. This prioritizes precision over recall; we consider incorrect matches to be more harmful than missing ones. Nevertheless, this strategy will be able to fill in large gaps in the funder data, and we can be confident that we will not be making widespread mistakes. To verify this, we use an evaluation dataset, which is described in the next section.

Evaluation dataset for funder matching

To evaluate the funder matching strategy, we manually labeled an evaluation dataset that maps funder name strings from Crossref metadata to zero, one, or multiple ROR IDs. The funder names were extracted from a July 2025 snapshot of Crossref works metadata, which contains 25.7 million funder entries across 12.4 million works, representing just over 3 million unique funder name strings.

The distribution of funder names is highly skewed: a small number of names appear very frequently, while most appear only a handful of times. Because correct handling of common funders has a disproportionate impact on overall metadata quality, the evaluation dataset is a weighted sample, where each name is weighted by how often it appears without an asserted funder ID.

The final evaluation dataset contains 3,505 funder names, with a total weight of just over 2.1 million funder entries. Each name was manually labeled against the ROR registry, resulting in at least one ROR match for 1,895 names. In addition, for some cases, alternate matches were recorded to support “relaxed” evaluation in ambiguous scenarios.

Evaluation methodology

Evaluation is done by running the matching strategy on all names in the dataset and comparing the results to the manual annotations. The primary metrics are precision, recall, and the F0.5 score, which combines precision and recall while weighting precision more heavily. This reflects the project’s preference to avoid incorrect metadata assertions, even at the cost of lower recall.

In addition to standard (strict) evaluation, the framework supports relaxed evaluation using alternate matches. This is meant to address cases where funder strings might be ambiguous even for a human evaluator, or a matching strategy might identify a parent organisation of a target, which is not an entirely incorrect match.

Evaluation is performed along two independent dimensions. First, results can be calculated in an unweighted mode, where each funder name is treated as equally important, or in a weighted mode, where names are weighted by how frequently they appear without an asserted identifier in Crossref metadata. Second, evaluation can be strict or relaxed, depending on whether only the primary annotated ROR ID is considered correct or whether alternate, manually annotated matches are also accepted. Together, these dimensions produce four possible evaluation modes.

Results

Under relaxed, weighted evaluation, the funder matching strategy achieves a precision of 0.99, recall of 0.81, and an F0.5 score of 0.95.

The table below compares the performance of the matching strategy across four evaluation modes. The Relaxed Weighted mode represents the headline performance (Precision: 0.9897) as it accounts for both the frequency of names in the metadata (weighting) and valid metadata ambiguity (alternates). In practical terms, the results mean that when the strategy produces a match, it is correct (or acceptably close, in cases of genuine ambiguity) roughly 99% of the time.

Evaluation ModePrecisionRecallF0.5 ScoreFalse PositivesFalse NegativesUnweighted0.93650.60240.843081788Weighted0.97760.79480.934681788Relaxed Unweighted0.97070.64450.881537675Relaxed Weighted0.98970.80940.947537675

While precision and recall are essential for understanding matching performance, there are other important considerations that also matter in practice. This strategy also scores high marks in some of these other criteria that we’ve identified:

• Openness — The strategy is open source— source code here—and built on open source methods, in accordance with our commitment to POSI.
• Explainability/Flexibility — This is not a black box machine-learning model; the steps, detailed in the overview I’ve given earlier, are fairly easy to understand, update, and apply to new data.
• Resources/Speed — The strategy is very quick (averaging a matter of milliseconds per match), and does not require large amounts of intense computation or data storage.

From evaluation to production

This work represents more than an isolated matching experiment: it is intended to be the first production deployment of the new metadata matching framework. Bringing funder matching into production will involve not only implementing the strategy described here, but also standing up shared infrastructure for monitoring, iteration, and reuse across future matching tasks. Applying this new matching system across all of Crossref’s current and future funder data will be our next milestone in the project. Beyond that, we will move on to grants, affiliations, references, and more. The work we’re doing now of setting up infrastructure, refining evaluation methods, and working out any kinks as they arise, will all contribute to the momentum of the project. We’re very excited about all the enrichment of the research nexus that lies ahead!

Something big is happening in the global scientific community, and Brazil seems to be left out again

Recent advances in artificial intelligence are reshaping global scientific output, with significant gains in productivity and the automation of complex tasks. While researchers abroad are already experimenting and redefining their practices, Brazil continues to see little discussion, limited access, and an excessive focus on regulation. The result could be a deepening of scientific inequalities, requiring a rapid response based on experimentation, the dissemination of best practices, and access policies. Available only in Portuguese.

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Evidence Isn’t Just for Research

This Friday, we offer a humorous take on the importance of empirical evidence in this era of fraud and mis/disinformation.

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OpenCitations’ renewed compliance with the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (April 2026)

OpenCitations has formally adopted the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) since its first self-assessment in August 2021. At that time, we had only recently been included in the SCOSS funding round and, although we had a clear vision of what we wanted to build and the role we wanted to play within the Open Science ecosystem, both our financial and human resources were still very limited. For this reason, the POSI self-assessment proved to be an important exercise, since it allowed us to … Continue reading OpenCitations’ renewed compliance with the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (April 2026)

ARL Libraries Celebrate National Library Week 2026

Last Updated on April 23, 2026, 5:38 pm ET National Library Week—April 19–25 this year—is an annual celebration highlighting the valuable role libraries and library workers play in transforming lives...

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Report: Illinois Bill Would Stop Publishers From Charging Libraries More Than Public For E-Books and Audiobooks

From the Chicago Tribune: “More and more taxpayer-funded library budgets are being eaten up by this licensing at unreasonably high prices,” [Monica] Harris [executive director of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System] said. “The hold list gets longer and longer for the constituents who are trying to, you know, use these materials and many libraries […]

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Introducing Vanishing Culture: A New Book on the Loss of Our Digital Memory

From disappearing news articles to lost films, music, and websites, a new book from the Internet Archive reveals how our shared digital record is eroding, and what it will take […]

Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web

A Pew Research Center study found that 38% of webpages from a decade ago, and about 25% of pages sampled across the decade, are now inaccessible; our analysis shows that the Wayback Machine has rescued roughly 15% of those otherwise dead pages.

The Opportunities and Perils of Discovery: STM Releases its Trends 2030

The new STM Trends 2030 was released, symbolizing a world full of opportunities but also with dangers lying just below the surface for scholarly publishing.

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Why metadata matters for research integrity: a new joint guide from Crossref and DataCite

Preserving the integrity of the scholarly record is an important component of the overall endeavour to protect research integrity. Open scholarly infrastructure enables persistent recording of research objects and associated metadata, which provides an evidence trail for these objects for all in the research community. Crossref and DataCite – as providers of essential infrastructure for preservation of the scholarly record – we share our joint expertise in the new guide on “Why metadata matters for research integrity and how to contribute”.

Both our organisations enable our members to share metadata about the research outputs, resources, and activities that they produce and steward. That metadata about scholarly outputs provides important information about them, which can help evidence integrity. To highlight how and which elements in the Crossref and DataCite metadata schemas support this endeavour, we are excited to make our new guide, available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo19695957.

This joint guide offers practical information for all stakeholders in the scholarly ecosystem about the different metadata elements supported by Crossref and DataCite that can help in assessing the integrity of the scholarly record. With growth in the type and complexity of research outputs over the years, there is also a growing need to be able to ascertain the trustworthiness of research outputs. Metadata directly supports this function. Creators and stewards of research outputs can provide metadata about the content that they produce, including information on who authored the work, who funded it, which other works it cites, whether it was updated after publication, how it relates to other items in the research ecosystem, and more. This guide lists the metadata elements that capture this information in the Crossref and DataCite metadata schemas and the important role played by each of them in assessing integrity and rigour. We hope that by knowing more about the applications of metadata for preserving the integrity of the scholarly record, prospective authors, researchers, publishers, repositories, integrators, and funders will be encouraged to contribute rich and accurate metadata when registering DOI records.

This information can also be leveraged by researchers and users of metadata who are looking to incorporate open metadata into their tools and analyses. All of the metadata in Crossref and DataCite can be accessed via open APIs and public data files. This guide contains details of what each of the metadata elements can be used for, helping you to identify the right data that you need for your analyses of interest, such as looking at citation patterns, network analysis, and other research integrity trends.

As you read through this guide, please share your feedback and any questions that you may have via the Crossref community forum.

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Publishes “The State of U.S. Academic Libraries: Findings From the ACRL 2024 Annual Survey”

From ACRL:  This report focuses on U.S. academic libraries in fiscal year 2024 (the 2023–24 academic year). For the first time this year, the results are weighted to be representative of all U.S. academic libraries, unless otherwise noted. Key findings include: Staff: The average full-time equivalent (FTE) library staff is 36.2 and the median is 15.7. […]

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Library Copyright Alliance Testifies Against Pro Codes Act

Last Updated on April 27, 2026, 7:05 pm ET In a hearing yesterday of the US House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet on the...

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Academic Publishing in the Age of AI: From Content to Trust

AI in science should not be viewed merely as a productivity tool layered onto existing workflows. It represents a structural shift in how knowledge moves through society, and therefore in how scientific authority is established and maintained.

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Invest in Open Infrastructure (IoI) Publishes Landscape Scan on “Sustaining the Commons in the AI Economy”

From Invest in Open Infrastructure (IoI): As part of our Building Resilient Infrastructure through Dialogue, Growth, and Exchange (BRIDGE) project, Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) is pleased to release the first outcome of our research: a landscape scan of the challenges and strategies for bridging AI companies and open curated collections.  Curated collections, such as digital […]

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Monitoring State and Federal Policy Impacts on Research Practices

In 2024, we conducted a national survey of instructors, which included a subset of questions exploring faculty perceptions of academic freedom, whether there were topics they avoided when talking to their fellow faculty or students, and the extent to which they felt supported by their institution. This week we published the first set of findings from a survey of academic researchers we conducted last fall.

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Guest Post — Moving from Identifier to Identity for Researchers

Today's post calls for collective action to address the researcher identity verification gap in scholarly communications and champions STM's Researcher identity group.

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ARL Daily Intelligence (April 20–23)

Last Updated on April 24, 2026, 1:42 pm ET The ARL Daily Intelligence is the trusted source of news and analysis for library leaders and advocates. Released Monday through Thursday, the ARL Daily...

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Tuesday, April 21: Advocacy and Public Policy Committee Meeting Open to ARL Member Reps and Senior Leaders

Last Updated on April 20, 2026, 2:18 pm ET  member reps    senior leaders  ARL member representatives and senior leaders are invited to join ARL’s Advocacy and Public Policy Committee meeting...

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U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs: The Arguments That Shaped America, Now Freely Available

Most people are familiar with the U.S. Supreme Court opinions as public documents. But the opinions are only part of the story. Behind every landmark ruling lies a vast archive of briefs, petitions, appendices, and supporting records; these are the the arguments, evidence, and voices that shaped each decision.

New Report From the American Library Association “The State of American Libraries: A Snapshot of 2025”

The State of America’s Libraries: A Snapshot of 2025 was published today by the American Library Association (ALA). Direct to Full Text Report (20 pages; PDF) From the Report: As the nation’s libraries unite to celebrate National Library Week, and communities everywhere recognize the valuable contribution of America’s libraries and the people who power them, […]

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American Library Association (ALA) Releases List of Top 11 Most Challenged Books of 2025; Patricia McCormick’s “Sold”, Tops List

From the Associated Press: The ALA on Monday issued its annual list of the books most challenged at the country’s libraries, part of the association’s State of America’s Libraries Report. Patricia McCormick’s “Sold,” a 2006 novel about sex trafficking in India, topped the list for 2025. Others targeted include Stephen Chbosky’s high school novel “The […]

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Can Peer Review Keep Up? Announcing the Theme for Peer Review Week 2026

Today, we share the results of a global community poll that produced the theme for Peer Review Week 2026 (14–18 September): “Peer Review Capacity: Volume, Speed and Quality.”

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King of Jazz and the Construction of Names

Where do public monikers come from and what do they say about culture? One of the more eclectic titles to enter the public domain in 2026 was Universal’s King of […]

DLARC Adds New Radio Resources to Celebrate World Amateur Radio Day

Internet Archive’s Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications, a library devoted to ham radio, shortwave, and related topics, announces a number of new collections to mark World Amateur Radio […]

University of Virginia Library: New ‘AI Literacy and Action Lab’ Creates Pathway For Understanding, Judgment, and Experimentation

From the University of Virginia Library: On April 17, 2026, the Library and the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences announced the creation of the AI Literacy and Action Lab, a program meant to consider the complexities of AI in higher education head-on. With four pilot projects launching in spring and summer 2026, and […]

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Uncovering How Instructors Define and Teach AI Skills

Higher education institutions and employers alike tout the priority they place on AI skills, but rarely do they describe what ‘AI skills’ actually mean. While there are many models of AI literacy in both educational and employment settings, there are remarkably few frameworks that identify the specific skills that make that literacy applicable in either setting. To help bridge that gap, Ithaka S+R is undertaking a new, national study to better understand what specific AI skills instructors think are important for college graduates and if they are currently teaching those skills in their classes.

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Guest Post — Exploring Data Spaces in Scholarly Communications

Today's guest post explains the new data space pilot, which will be the focus of the upcoming BISG/SSP webinar on May 12, 2026.

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Relentless Curiosity: An Interview with Seth Langer

Today’s blog post is an interview with Seth Langer, a Digital Collections Technician here at the Library of Congress. You can read other interviews with digital collections staff here. Hi Seth, could you tell us a bit about what you do in the Digital Services Directorate? How would you explain your job to someone outside …

Research Library Collections and AI

Last Updated on April 16, 2026, 1:43 pm ET This post is an extended version of a recent lightning talk I gave as part of a private workshop hosted by...

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Free Law Project is Scanning America’s Case Law; Goal is to Scan 2.5 Million Pages by the Fall

From a FLP Announcement: Since our founding, Free Law Project has worked tirelessly to create a complete database of every American legal decision ever written. In 2024, we announced that we added historical case law digitized by Harvard Law Library to CourtListener. This made our platform one of the most comprehensive and transparent sources of case […]

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Rogue Scholar starts to register blog DOIs

This week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive started registering DOIs for blogs, in addition to the DOIs for blog posts it registers since 2023.

Guest Post — Call to Action: Shaping Our Collective Voice Through Advocacy

SSP's Advocacy Task Force Co-chairs encourage members to participate in this month's Pulse Check Survey on our collective advocacy activities.

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Improving Search by 10%

Today’s challenge is to find “The Secret of Secrets“, by Dan Brown using Open Library search. It’s not impossible, but it is not easy… And it’s not just because the Я is backwards on the cover. If you search for “the secret of secrets“, you won’t find the right match on the first two pages of […]

Canada Reads Awards: My Journey Championing Canadian Content on Open Library

By Catherine Gosztonyi Hi! I’m Catherine, a curious and avid librarygoer, currently pursuing a career transition into the Library and Information Sciences field. I joined the Open Library Librarian’s Team as a Librarian-In-Training during the summer of 2025 to learn about the world of online libraries, contribute to an open source project, and be part […]

The Journal Article Is Not the Job

There is more and more skepticism toward the role of publishers, a steady commoditization of publishing services, and growing fragmentation across the research ecosystem. If that is the case, the question is no longer what publishers do, but how that value is understood and extended.

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Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Ashutosh Ghildiyal

Today we welcome a new Chef in the Kitchen, Ashutosh Ghildiyal.

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