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Guest Post — How Libraries and Scholarly Publishers Can Work Together Toward Born-accessible Publishing

Libraries and publishers can work together to improve the availability of accessible published content for people with disabilities. Here we present recommendations to support the cross-sector collaboration necessary to improve the accessibility of content in our communities.

  • By Katherine Klosek, Simon Holt, Katherine McColgan, Judith C. Russell
  • May 1, 2025
  • 2 Comments

New Ways to Illuminate Stories in Your Usage Data

Usage data experiences are dominated by tabular reports from complex systems; we need new tools to illuminate the stories within the data.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Apr 21, 2025
  • 7 Comments

An Elaborate, But Highly Accurate, 11 Second Microsoft Office Gag

If you’ve ever tried to move a photo in a Word document, you’ll appreciate this short reenactment.

  • By David Crotty
  • Apr 18, 2025
  • 6 Comments

The Chicken or Egg Problem — Should Publishers Mandate Graphical Abstracts or Let Authors Lead the Way?

If we want to broaden the audience base for research outputs, then authors need to explore more visual formats for readers to consume. The graphical abstract is one such format.

  • By Roohi Ghosh
  • Oct 10, 2024
  • 10 Comments

Inclusive R&D: Can it Become the Rule, Not an Exception?

Inclusive publishing and design practices should be the status quo and not an afterthought.

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Sep 11, 2024
  • 0 Comments

Design Matters: What Should the Future of Transportation Sound Like?

Designers have spent decades trying to reduce the sounds that cars make. Now with electric vehicles, they are being forced to add sounds to provide feedback to drivers and pedestrians. What should the future sound like?

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 12, 2024
  • 1 Comment

Ask the Community: What Do Campus Disability Services Staff Most Want Publishers to Know?

We asked Campus Disability Services leaders, “What would you most like Publishers to know?”

  • By Nicola Poser
  • May 1, 2024
  • 2 Comments

Navigating the Page and The Reader’s Task

Juggling formats of print vs. digital for books, have developers simply given up on whether there’s room to improve navigation and design?

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Mar 12, 2024
  • 8 Comments

Bird Speed Scale Bar

A data visualization showing the relative speeds of various birds.

  • By David Crotty
  • Dec 8, 2023
  • 4 Comments

The Size of Things: Historical Overlaps

What else was happening during well known historical events? Where did the fax machine and the Oregon Trail overlap? What about Woolly Mammoths and the Great Pyramids?

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 25, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Bambi for the Serious Reader

The Disney film may be considered a classic, but Princeton University Press has more successfully delivered Felix Salton’s original message.

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Aug 22, 2023
  • 5 Comments

The Size of Things: How Big is the Milky Way?

Ah the joy of a good scale bar. Here we find out how big the earth would be if the Milky Way was the size of the US.

  • By David Crotty
  • Aug 18, 2023
  • 0 Comments

Design Matters (or does it?): Why are Certain Things Certain Colors?

Why are barns red? Bubble gum pink? Why do doctors wear white coats? The reasons vary.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 21, 2023
  • 1 Comment

Hypnotic Pencil Manufacturing

It’s Friday. Time to zone out with a film of pencils being manufactured in Japan.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 7, 2023
  • 1 Comment

The Size of Things: Time in Context

What does the timeline of human existence look like when physically laid out to scale? How does that compare to the timeline of the universe?

  • By David Crotty
  • Jun 23, 2023
  • 5 Comments

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