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Archives: Future

New STM 2029 Trends Report Provides a Bridge to the Future

Todd Carpenter describes the new 2029 STM Trends report, which provides a vision and a bridge to the future for the community.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Apr 3, 2025
  • 2 Comments

A Serious Game for Scholarly Publishers: The STM Trends 2027 Helps Publishers Level Up

@TAC_NISO describes STM Association 2027 Trends report released Thursday. It helps people grasp the direction and impact of technology changes in our community so they can “level up”

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Apr 28, 2023
  • 0 Comments

Thoughts on AI’s Impact on Scholarly Communications? An Interview with ChatGPT

An interview with ChatGPT on issues related to scholarly communication.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jan 11, 2023
  • 14 Comments

Guest Post — What’s Your Vision for a New Model Library?

Members of the OCLC Research Team discuss their project examining changes to library work, collections, and engagement experiences and how they will lead to the future of libraries.

  • By Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ixchel M. Faniel, Brittany Brannon, Brooke Doyle, Brian Lavoie
  • Jan 5, 2022
  • 1 Comment

What Do Statements of Support for California Tell Us About the Big Deal?

What do statements of support for UC reveal about open access publishing, institutional priorities, and the role of library-publisher contracts?

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Sep 9, 2019
  • 13 Comments

Where is the Publication Puck Going? Making Research Available “Upstream” of Publication

Could scholarly publishers’ skills and capacity be re-positioned to serve researchers at earlier stages in the research process, “upstream” of publication? Charlie Rapple shares findings from a survey of the communications needs of almost 10,000 researchers.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Aug 21, 2019
  • 0 Comments

Ask The Chefs: What Are Your Predictions For Scholarly Communications in 2018?

Prediction is a strong word. Does anyone really know the future? Of course not, but it’s fun (and can be helpful) to speculate. Come add to the Chefs’ predictions for 2018.

  • By Ann Michael
  • Jan 17, 2018
  • 10 Comments

The Generation Gap: How Society Membership Varies by Age Group

Today’s students and early career researchers and professionals will be critical to the future success of our scholarly societies and associations. How well are they being served at present and how can we ensure their support in future?

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Jun 22, 2015
  • 9 Comments

Will 2014 Be the Year of the Individual Paywall for Publishers?

As revenues from alternatives decrease and digital revenue sources prove insufficient, publishers are finding that straight-up asking readers to pay may be the best approach going forward.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Nov 25, 2013
  • 71 Comments

Walter Cronkite Tours the Home of 2001 — Complete with the Information Console

What an idea! Information consoles in the home of the future. They only missed the existence of wi-fi and cellular, and how those made everything portable.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Mar 1, 2013
  • 1 Comment

The Future of Publishing: Do We Have It All Backwards?

Clever, clever, and oh so worth watching through to the end:

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Mar 16, 2010
  • 10 Comments

“Did You Know?” 4.0 — Convergence and Communications

Another “Did You Know?” video has appeared, this time talking about convergence. Maybe it also shows that with each video, we’re closer to the future that once astounded us.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Sep 18, 2009
  • 0 Comments

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