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Archives: research funding

Trump v. Research: How We Could Turn the Threats into Opportunities

Alice Meadows and guest chef Suze Kundu look at how, by acting collectively across all stakeholder groups, we could turn the Trump administration’s threats against research into opportunities

  • By Alice Meadows, Suze Kundu
  • Apr 30, 2025
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Guest Post — Scholarship in the Face of Powerful Opposition: Academia Needs a March of the Ents

Like Tolkien’s “Ents” marched against deforestation, scholars, scientists, and their supporters must awaken to the widespread risks of these authoritarian trends and unite their efforts in resistance.

  • By Nason Maani
  • Mar 12, 2025
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How the SDGs Are Shaping the Research Agenda, and What Publishers Need to Know and Do

Insights from a recent study looking at how the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are influencing research, including recommendations for publishers’ next steps.

  • By Charlie Rapple
  • Nov 11, 2024
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Gates Policy Refresh: What Would Success Look Like?

While the BMGF may be all-in, from an industry perspective the Gates Policy Refresh represents a small but potentially valuable experiment.

  • By Ann Michael, Dan Pollock
  • Apr 11, 2024
  • 2 Comments

How Has COVID-19 Affected Research Funding, Publishing and Library Budgets? Or, Finding the Truth in the Gap Between Perception and Reality

Publication of the final report of a major global study of the effects of COVID-19 on research funding, publishing, and library budgets – and the truth that emerged in the gap between perception and reality.

  • By Charlie Rapple, Christopher Daley
  • Mar 24, 2021
  • 8 Comments

The Failure of the US Government to Fund Science Infrastructure is Causing Things to Literally Collapse

The Arecibo Observatory collapsed, laying bare the problems of funding science infrastructure.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Dec 21, 2020
  • 2 Comments

Supply, Demand, and the Subscription Model in Scholarly Publishing — An Analysis

An overview of usage trends across libraries and journals indicates that usage is generally stable or up, archives remain of interest, and consumption doesn’t align with authorship or funding.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Feb 22, 2017
  • 10 Comments

Going APE — Thoughts and Insights with a European Perspective

The Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) meeting in Europe is 10 years old, but feels as fresh and frisky as some of the meetings in the US used to. This report touches on some of the most interesting threads of two days’ worth of interesting presentations and conversations.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Jan 26, 2015
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