The User Has Changed. Has Scholarly Publishing?
For scholarly publishers, the user has changed faster than the systems designed to serve them, and the gap between the two is where most of the difficult work is happening.
From “AI helps me write” to “AI runs the workflow”: Eight Tech-trend Reports through a Publishing-and-learning Lens
A review of eight technology industry trend reports that offer a similar conclusion: AI is no longer a feature. It’s becoming infrastructure — and the unit of value is moving from “a better tool” to “a better system.”
Guest Post — Well-meant Is Not Well-done: A Reply to “European Accessibility Act: Navigating the Challenges of EAA Compliance”
While large international players showcase well-resourced compliance roadmaps toward accessibility compliance, many in the European publishing landscape are facing a more sobering reality: legal ambiguities, economic limits, and structural mismatches between regulatory goals and scholarly publishing practices.
Guest Post – Metrics Sonification of Team Size Effects on Disruptive Research
Data sonification is the process of translating data into sound. Here, Lutz Bornmann and Christian Leibel present the sonified results of a recent analysis of the impact of scientific team size on innovation.
Guest Post — European Accessibility Act: Navigating the Challenges of EAA Compliance
The deadline for the European Accessibility Act compliance is rapidly approaching. Here we discuss the challenges scholarly organizations face in achieving EAA compliance — and the strategies they’re implementing to address them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?”
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?
Bird Speed Scale Bar
A data visualization showing the relative speeds of various birds.
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?