Why does Unpaywall return higher percentages of Hybrid OA articles a year later?

A test case looking at an open database and a closed database.

This presentation shows how AI can misleadingly appear unbiased and suggests that technology alone is incapable of fixing social and political problems.

This presentation argues that we need to continue to care about privacy, that AI poses unique privacy challenges, and that we have a range of strategies to consider in protecting privacy.

This presentation suggests principles for thinking through when AI should be empowered to do certain tasks, when humans should continue to do certain work (even if AI can do it), and how humans and AI might collaborate in certain processes.

This presentation outlines key terminology about AI, distinguishes the advantages and disadvantages of AI compared to human intelligence, sketches the process by which AI is developed, and argues that AI is a name for a vast array of human-made tools with both promise and peril.

This workshop session was presented in February of 2024 to Parks Library staff at Iowa State University. The goal of this final session of a 3-part series was to discuss and explore the ethical issues surrounding AI and academic libraries.

An interactive transcript of a workshop presented in February of 2024 to Parks Library staff at Iowa State University. The goal of this session (the 2nd in a 3-part series) was to provide guided, hands-on experience with various AI tools related to academic libraries.

Instructions and resources for recreating the "Exploring AI Tools for Academic Libraries" workshop. Feel free to adapt these resources to the needs of your group.

The Unpaywall designation should be corrected for a number of "Open Archive" records

This article describes a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional effort by Iowa State University and its partners to address the shortage of plant breeders in SSA.

A sordid tale of greed undone by community protest

This brief essay explores the changing nature of librarianship and the dynamics of working with electronic resources. It focuses especially on the aspects of maintaining connections to free and open resources through library systems.

Scholarly metadata takes time to get into databases. How long do I need to wait before analyzing a calendar year?

Why I seek them out (when available)

This article shares some background information and reasoning for why and how Iowa State University Library might improve the visibility of its OER services.

This article explores the Iowa State library's approach to author equity during a rapidly evolving moment in open access and scholarly communication.

How the ISU University Library rewrote their collection development policy to emphasize values.

This article is an adapted version of a keynote presented at the 2022 Iowa OER Summit, held virtually March 1–3, 2022.

In 2021, the Iowa State University Library passed a new Open Access Commitment, replacing an outdated document with one that better supports the diverse range of work done by the library staff at Iowa State University.

Using the Web of Science Excel Converter tool

A talk given as part of the IBPOC Voices Speaker Series, organized by IDEAS@UBC, discussing the exclusion of voices of colour from the scholar record.