Institutional Books: A 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08300

#HackerNews #InstitutionalBooks #HarvardLibrary #TokenDataset #OpenData #DigitalCollections

Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab has published their archive of Data.gov, collected intermittently between 2024-11-19 and 2025-02-06 (and intended to be updated daily)

https://source.coop/repositories/harvard-lil/gov-data/description

#Data #usa #archive #datagov #harvardlibrary #resist

Ooh, thanks also #HarvardLibrary! https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/

We’re Harvard Library Workers. We Stand in Solidarity with the Study-Ins.

🔗 https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/11/7/bergamasco-tuttle-harvard-library-workers-solidarity/

#LibraryWorkers #WidenerLibrary #HarvardLibrary #HarvardLibraries #HarvardUniversity #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity

"#HarvardLibrary is launching…the Harvard Open Journals Program (#HOJP), which will…provide publishing services, resources, and seed funding to participating Harvard researchers for new academic #journals. All journal articles will be entirely free for authors and readers…The program is a direct response to faculty interest in alternatives to the article-processing-charge [#APC] model."
https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2024-04-23/harvard-library-launching-harvard-open-journals-program

#DiamondOA #Libraries #OpenAccess #OverlayJournals

Congratulations to the three projects that just won "Advancing Open Knowledge" grants from #HarvardLibrary.
https://staff.library.harvard.edu/advancing-open-knowledge-2023

#OpenAccess #Libraries

"The #HBCU Library Alliance & #HarvardLibrary are embarking on this project [to advance] open, public access to archives & special collections [on] #AfricanAmerican #history. Funds are provided by the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative, which has designated $6 million."
https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2023-03-08/hbcula-hl-partnership

PS: Universities can't stop states determined to ban the teaching of accurate US history. But they can make it easy for students to find more of the missing chapters.

@academicchatter

Update. The statement is now on the #HarvardLibrary website.
https://library.harvard.edu/about/news/2023-03-03/iplc-letter-office-science-technology-policy

Another excerpt: "We want to highlight the dangers of allowing the interests of commercial #publishers to dictate the paths available to [#OpenAccess]…We refer here to the…#APC (article processing charge)…and/or institutional #ReadAndPublish agreements where libraries pay bulk APCs on behalf of their scholars and unlock institutional access to read pay-walled content."