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Celebrating Public-Good Curators: An Interview with Tracey Brown and Camille Gamboa

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.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Dec 16, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

In the Messy Middle: Observations from the Front Line at the UKSG Forum

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.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Dec 15, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Google’s Last Last Year in Search

The year in search at Google — is this the last one of these we’ll see?

  • By David Crotty
  • Dec 12, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Guest Post:  Academic Publishing Is  Not Fit for the Future – If We Don’t Act Now, The Vital Role Research Plays in Society Is at Risk

Academic publishing ia reaching a breaking point. Unless we redesign it, we risk stalling the very progress we seek – with consequences impacting research, education and public trust in academia.

  • By Mandy Hill
  • Dec 11, 2025
  • 14 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — Sustainable Practices and UN SDG Alignment at the 2025 EASE Conference in Oslo

Today’s guest bloggers describe the efforts taken in organizing a sustainable 2025 conference of the European Association for Science Editors.

  • By Lovorka Čaja, Iva Grabarić Andonovski
  • Dec 10, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

SEO Still Matters: Building Blocks for the Future of Content Discoverability

As the search and user behavior landscapes undergo dramatic evolutions, marketers and others are left to wonder what SEO means for publishers now.

  • By Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, Kristina Henrikson
  • Dec 9, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Funding Research Services: How Libraries are Exploring Cost Recovery Models

Today’s guest bloggers share results of an exploratory survey of funding research services, offering a snapshot of a library community in transition.

  • By Hilary Craiglow, Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Tim McGeary
  • Dec 8, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Chefs’ Selections: Best Media Enjoyed in 2025 (Part 2)

In the second of our Chef’s Selections series for 2025, we pause to look back on the best books, music, shows, and other cultural expressions we encountered in 2025.

  • By Angela Cochran, Lettie Y. Conrad, Jill O'Neill, Charlie Rapple
  • Dec 5, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Chefs’ Selections: Best Media Enjoyed in 2025 (Part 1)

In the first of our Chef’s Selections series for 2025, we pause to look back on the best books, music, shows, and other cultural expressions we encountered in 2025.

  • By Rick Anderson, Roy Kaufman, Alice Meadows
  • Dec 4, 2025
  • 4 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Building an Intelligence Infrastructure for Science

Today’s guest post spotlights a new scientific intelligence engine inspired by Thomas Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolution and the mission to give humanity the ability to see its own progress while it unfolds.

  • By Khalid Saqr, Gareth Dyke
  • Dec 3, 2025
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Guest Post — What Do College Students Lose When Libraries Are Ignored?

Today’s guest post argues that academic libraries are an investment in the very foundation of quality scholarship and responsible publishing.

  • By Jane Jiang
  • Dec 2, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — From Cloud to Carbon: Exploring the Digital Carbon Footprint of Knowledge

Today’s guest post summarizes the discussion in the recent EASE / STM / webinar, exploring the digital carbon footprint of scholarly publishing.

  • By Rachel Martin
  • Dec 1, 2025
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Reasons To Be Thankful: 50 Years of Patti Smith’s Horses

We’re off for the Thanksgiving holiday. In what seems like a difficult year in which to be thankful, there’s still joy to be had.

  • By David Crotty
  • Nov 26, 2025
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

Science as Story, Memory as Infrastructure: A Conversation with Trevor Owens, Part 2

In today’s guest post, Wendy Queen (JHUP) continues her conversation with Trevor Owens (AIP) about how the tools and sensibilities of the humanities are helping to preserve the record of the physical sciences.

  • By Wendy Queen
  • Nov 25, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Balancing Work and Caregiving: Flexibility That Works for Everyone

Today, nearly one in four adults serves as a caregiver. Because of this, work-life flexibility isn’t just a nicety it’s a game-changer, for individuals and organizations alike.

  • By Kristal Gerdes
  • Nov 24, 2025
  • 10 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Five Years of GetFTR: A discussion with Librarians on Access, Integrity, and Collaboration

After five years of GetFTR, four librarians discuss how it is working in practice, its value to libraries and researchers, and what opportunities lie ahead.

  • By Heather Staines, Tracy Gardner
  • Nov 21, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins
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