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		<title>DigitalKoans and Digital Scholarship Have Been Published for 21 Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Digital Scholarship and DigitalKoans were established on April 20, 2005 by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. (ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8453-4402), who has been an open access publisher since 1989 when he launched The Public-Access Computer Systems Review (1989-1998)&#8212;one of the first peer-reviewed diamond open access journals on the Internet. Digital Scholarship&#39;s digital publications are open access and &#8230; <a href="https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/21/digitalkoans-and-digital-scholarship-have-been-published-for-21-years/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "<em>DigitalKoans</em> and Digital Scholarship Have Been Published for 21 Years"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“Scaling ORCID Adoption: Technical and Organizational Approaches Within a Research Organization”</title>
		<link>https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/17/scaling-orcid-adoption-technical-and-organizational-approaches-within-a-research-organization/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction: The Open Research and Contributor Identifier system (ORCID) provides services that enable research organizations to integrate ORCID identifiers (ORCID iDs) into business and information systems. Successful ORCID iD integrations involve enrolling many stakeholders and completing several technical projects. The goal of this paper is to highlight lessons learned in pursuing ORCID iD integrations within &#8230; <a href="https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/17/scaling-orcid-adoption-technical-and-organizational-approaches-within-a-research-organization/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“Scaling ORCID Adoption: Technical and Organizational Approaches Within a Research Organization”"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“OER as Dynamic Digital Commons: Toward Maintenance and Governance”</title>
		<link>https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/17/oer-as-dynamic-digital-commons-toward-maintenance-and-governance-2/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction: Academic libraries have been instrumental in supporting the creation and adoption of open educational resources (OER), yet current approaches rely on imagining the possibilities of OER as static documents like traditional books. This conceptualization places unsustainable burdens on the labor of individual authors, particularly in rapidly evolving fields where knowledge changes quickly. We argue &#8230; <a href="https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/17/oer-as-dynamic-digital-commons-toward-maintenance-and-governance-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“OER as Dynamic Digital Commons: Toward Maintenance and Governance”"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“Publishing Service in Times of Crisis: A Case Study of the Academic Library’s Contribution to the New Knowledge Dissemination”</title>
		<link>https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/17/publishing-service-in-times-of-crisis-a-case-study-of-the-academic-librarys-contribution-to-the-new-knowledge-dissemination/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction: Academic libraries play an important role in scholarly communication and the dissemination of new knowledge about the state of science in their educational institutions. The article presents a case study of the contribution of the library of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts (Ukraine) to the university’s publishing program, which includes the publication &#8230; <a href="https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/17/publishing-service-in-times-of-crisis-a-case-study-of-the-academic-librarys-contribution-to-the-new-knowledge-dissemination/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“Publishing Service in Times of Crisis: A Case Study of the Academic Library’s Contribution to the New Knowledge Dissemination”"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“OER as Dynamic Digital Commons: Toward Maintenance and Governance”</title>
		<link>https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/17/oer-as-dynamic-digital-commons-toward-maintenance-and-governance/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction: Academic libraries have been instrumental in supporting the creation and adoption of open educational resources (OER), yet current approaches rely on imagining the possibilities of OER as static documents like traditional books. This conceptualization places unsustainable burdens on the labor of individual authors, particularly in rapidly evolving fields where knowledge changes quickly. We argue &#8230; <a href="https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/17/oer-as-dynamic-digital-commons-toward-maintenance-and-governance/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“OER as Dynamic Digital Commons: Toward Maintenance and Governance”"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“From Course Packs to AI: Evolving Author and Publisher Rights in Journal Publishing Agreements”</title>
		<link>https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/17/from-course-packs-to-ai-evolving-author-and-publisher-rights-in-journal-publishing-agreements/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence/Robots]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction: This study analyzes the content of non-Open Access (OA) article publishing agreements from 15 publishers. Themes, commonalities, and differences are identified, as well as recommendations to publishers and salient aspects that librarians will find helpful when building copyright knowledge. Methods: In this study, 16 journal publishing agreements, a mix of large corporate publishers, scholarly &#8230; <a href="https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/17/from-course-packs-to-ai-evolving-author-and-publisher-rights-in-journal-publishing-agreements/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“From Course Packs to AI: Evolving Author and Publisher Rights in Journal Publishing Agreements”"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“An Exploration of Open Access Viewpoints and Self-Archiving Decisions of Yale School of Public Health Primary Faculty”</title>
		<link>https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/17/an-exploration-of-open-access-viewpoints-and-self-archiving-decisions-of-yale-school-of-public-health-primary-faculty/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction: This study explores what primary faculty at Yale School of Public Health know about open access (OA) and whether they self-archive (also known as “green open access”). Methods: Two medical librarians surveyed 103 public health faculty in the fall of 2022 and achieved a 40% response rate. Follow-up interviews were conducted with eight faculty &#8230; <a href="https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/17/an-exploration-of-open-access-viewpoints-and-self-archiving-decisions-of-yale-school-of-public-health-primary-faculty/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“An Exploration of Open Access Viewpoints and Self-Archiving Decisions of Yale School of Public Health Primary Faculty”"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“Library Publishing in Practice: A Case Study in Open Course Publications”</title>
		<link>https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/17/library-publishing-in-practice-a-case-study-in-open-course-publications/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction: Open course publications provide students with real-world experience of the scholarly publishing process, engaging students as information creators rather than consumers. Open course publications, an example of open pedagogy in action, can be journals or monographs created as an assignment in a credit bearing course. Supporting open assignments is one of the most impactful &#8230; <a href="https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/17/library-publishing-in-practice-a-case-study-in-open-course-publications/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“Library Publishing in Practice: A Case Study in Open Course Publications”"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“How Graduate Students Engage with Open Access: Challenges and Interventions”</title>
		<link>https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/17/how-graduate-students-engage-with-open-access-challenges-and-interventions/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction: As graduate students learn to publish their research, they also must navigate the complex, increasingly open access (OA) landscape of publishing. This study investigates graduate students’ engagement with OA at an R1 university. Literature Review: Literature reveals that graduate students are strategic about maximizing research impact but face knowledge gaps from informal learning, financial &#8230; <a href="https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/17/how-graduate-students-engage-with-open-access-challenges-and-interventions/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“How Graduate Students Engage with Open Access: Challenges and Interventions”"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“What Do Libraries Look for When Evaluating Relationships with Academic Publishers?”</title>
		<link>https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/10/what-do-libraries-look-for-when-evaluating-relationships-with-academic-publishers/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To explore these questions, Ithaka S+R conducted a national survey and complementary interviews between August and December 2025. Key findings from this research project include: Library leaders are seeking greater support from publishers in providing and presenting metrics that demonstrate the value of library resources to administrators and other leaders on campus. . . . &#8230; <a href="https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/10/what-do-libraries-look-for-when-evaluating-relationships-with-academic-publishers/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“What Do Libraries Look for When Evaluating Relationships with Academic Publishers?”"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“LLMs Have Made Failure Worth Publishing”</title>
		<link>https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/10/llms-have-made-failure-worth-publishing/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Scientific publishing systematically filters out negative results. We argue that this long-standing asymmetry has become an urgent problem in the era of large language models, which inherit the positive bias of the literature they are trained on, face an impending shortage of high-quality training data, and are increasingly deployed as both research tools and peer &#8230; <a href="https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/10/llms-have-made-failure-worth-publishing/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“LLMs Have Made Failure Worth Publishing”"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything”</title>
		<link>https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/10/anthropic-teams-up-with-its-rivals-to-keep-ai-from-hacking-everything/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anthropic&#8217;s Graham notes that in addition to vulnerability discovery—including producing potential attack chains and proofs of concept—Mythos Preview is capable of more advanced exploit development, penetration testing, endpoint security assessment, hunting for system misconfigurations, and evaluating software binaries without access to its source code. “We&#8217;ve seen Mythos Preview accomplish things that a senior security researcher &#8230; <a href="https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/10/anthropic-teams-up-with-its-rivals-to-keep-ai-from-hacking-everything/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“Anthropic Teams Up With Its Rivals to Keep AI From Hacking Everything”"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Usage of Higher Education Institutional Repositories and “Green” Open Access for Longform Publications</title>
		<link>https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/10/usage-of-higher-education-institutional-repositories-and-green-open-access-for-longform-publications-2/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This study and report were delivered by Information Power for The British Academy. This report provides one of the first comprehensive analyses of both qualitative and quantitative data concerning the deposit, discoverability, and use of longform open access (OA) materials in repositories. https://tinyurl.com/3kxn339j &#124; Research Data Publication and Citation Bibliography &#124; Research Data Sharing and &#8230; <a href="https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/10/usage-of-higher-education-institutional-repositories-and-green-open-access-for-longform-publications-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "<em>Usage of Higher Education Institutional Repositories and “Green” Open Access for Longform Publications</em>"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“International Partners Launch OA Forward to Strengthen Open Access Negotiations and Advance Open Scholarly Communication”</title>
		<link>https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/10/international-partners-launch-oa-forward-to-strengthen-open-access-negotiations-and-advance-open-scholarly-communication/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[DEAL Open Access Services (DEAS), together with contributing partners the University of California Libraries, Consortia Colombia, the Council of Australasian University Librarians, the Max Planck Society, the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), and the South African National Library and Information Consortium, today announced the establishment of OA Forward—an internationally governed coordination initiative &#8230; <a href="https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/10/international-partners-launch-oa-forward-to-strengthen-open-access-negotiations-and-advance-open-scholarly-communication/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“International Partners Launch OA Forward to Strengthen Open Access Negotiations and Advance Open Scholarly Communication”"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>“News &amp; Views: Open Access Charges – When “On Trend” Still Means Higher Spend”</title>
		<link>https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/10/news-views-open-access-charges-when-on-trend-still-means-higher-spend/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Average APC price increases are getting larger each year. There are approximately 2.4x more hybrid journals than fully OA ones, down from 2.6x last year, and 2.9x a year before that. The proportion of journals that are hybrid is slowly falling. However, because they are the majority, hybrid journals follow (or, rather, set) a similar &#8230; <a href="https://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2026/04/10/news-views-open-access-charges-when-on-trend-still-means-higher-spend/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "“News &#038; Views: Open Access Charges – When “On Trend” Still Means Higher Spend”"</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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