Who are public-good curators and how can they help improve public trust in science? Learn more in this interview with Tracey Brown (Sense about Science) and Camille Gamboa (Sage) about their recently co-published booklet on the topic.
The UKSG Forum is “an entire 2-3 day conference stripped back to bare essentials and completed in just one day”. Here are the key takeaways — changing priorities, from global to local; why it is getting harder to keep up and keep order; and the overriding importance of trusted relationships.
Today’s guest bloggers share results of an exploratory survey of funding research services, offering a snapshot of a library community in transition.
Today’s guest post argues that academic libraries are an investment in the very foundation of quality scholarship and responsible publishing.
The global scholarly publishing ecosystem has already transitioned — not to open access, but to a diverse hybrid system. So much the better.
Today, Alison Mudditt reflects on a Charleston Conference session that asked: what would it take to make the scholarly communication system truly equitable, impactful, and future-ready?
If libraries are civic institutions that structure society’s relationship to knowledge, and generative AI is poised to reshape discovery whether libraries act or not, will library leaders will develop strategies that preserve trust, equity, and sustainability?
Today’s guest blogger argues librarians have been advocates for accessibility of digital content long before ADA Title II — and they have a role in responding to the latest regulatory updates.
Today’s guest blogger explains how Drexel University sees transformative agreements as one of the best ways to support researchers and the public dissemination of knowledge, while also benefiting the university through cost-saving measures.
Today’s guest bloggers reflect on the the LIBER Annual Conference in Lausanne (2–4 July).
In the fast-moving world of AI research tools, there are many community-focused concerns that vendors should have strong opinions on and plans for, from privacy and security to sustainability and copyright. But the most misunderstood issue, in my view, is the one at the heart of it all — how AI will reshape the economics of academic research.
AI web harvesting bots are different from traditional web crawlers and violate many of the established rules and practices in place. Their rapidly expanding use is emerging as a significant IT management problem for content-rich websites across numerous industries.
NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) survey reflects the positive and negative expectations of generative AI in web-scale discovery tools.
In an era of information abundance and epistemic chaos, libraries serve as crucial sites for democratic knowledge practices — protecting them is critical to preserving the infrastructure of informed citizenship itself.
A scholarly communication ecosystem that relies on voluntary support rather than charging for access to content becomes radically less capable of keeping money in the system.