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Guest Post — Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs

The renaming of “Mount Denali” and “Gulf of Mexico” to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley” and “Gulf of America” reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where meaning is contested and conquered.

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Leading with Heart: The Transformative Power of Empathetic Leadership

Research suggests that empathy is a skill that can be honed and is beneficial to all. Empathetic leadership is an art form to convey to your team that you value them as individuals, all while maintaining a keen focus on the organization’s success.

SSP Compensation and Benefits Benchmarking Study Results Available

A sneak peek at the Individual results from the SSP’s Compensation and Benefits Benchmarking Study provides insight into who has participated and reveals some interesting benefits of working in scholarly communications.

Tackling Science’s ‘Nasty Photoshop Problem’

What can be done to resolve concerns about image integrity in scientific publications?

A Second Digital Transformation for Scholarly Monographs?

Today, Roger Schonfeld examines several key drivers transforming the monographs marketplace and reflects on strategic opportunities ahead.

Why Should Publishers Conserve Nature?

What role does/could scholarly publishing play in nature conservation?

Building a Neuro-inclusive Workplace

Organizations that do not actively include and support neurodivergent individuals risk missing out on exceptional talents and undermining employees’ ability to work to their full potential.

A Tradition Like No Other: The Minnesota State High School All Hockey Hair Team

A spectacular crop of lettuce at this year’s edition of the traditional mullet spotting competition.

Research Integrity, Image Manipulation, Content Provenance and the C2PA

Image integrity has been a growing issue in scholarly publishing. Todd Carpenter suggests we addreess the problem of image integrity at scale.

Guest Post — Scholarship in the Face of Powerful Opposition: Academia Needs a March of the Ents

Like Tolkien’s “Ents” marched against deforestation, scholars, scientists, and their supporters must awaken to the widespread risks of these authoritarian trends and unite their efforts in resistance.

Guest Post: Trying to Write a Paper with LLM Assistance

I tried three different large language models (LLMs) to rewrite a potential article.

It Takes a Village: Empowering the Community to Improve Scholarly Metadata through COMET

What if the community could collaborate to fix scholarly metadata? The COMET initiative is about to find out…

The Rules No Longer Apply: Octopus Edition

As if our world wasn’t already going crazy, now octopi apparently have shells.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Pre-Award Funding Processes: Actions, Not Words

In today’s post, Alice Meadows shares an update on a project to improve DEI in pre-award funding applications.

Guest Post – The Future Is Not Perpetual (But it could be yours for just several thousand dollars per year…)

Clarivate recently announced that it is shifting to a “subscription-based access strategy,” meaning that it will no longer allow academic libraries to purchase perpetual licenses to content.

The Scholarly Kitchen