The Humanities as Canary: Understanding this Crisis Now
The Humanities have always been the canary in the coal mine of the full knowledge industry. What information can help us understand this crisis and its implications?
Guest Post — No Data? No Acceptance. How IOP Publishing is Strengthening Open Science
Nicola Davies from IOPP details the publisher’s new data sharing requirements for authors.
Are We Fumbling in the Dark or Laying a Strong Foundation for AI Education?
Adapting to AI requires a commitment to fostering AI literacy and creating spaces to openly discuss its challenges and implications.
Five Trends In The Publishers-Sustainability Nexus
In this article, I present five specific developments which may give us an idea how the relationship between sustainability and scholarly publishers is changing over time.
Guest Post — Classification as Colonization: The Hidden Politics of Library Catalogs
The renaming of “Mount Denali” and “Gulf of Mexico” to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley” and “Gulf of America” reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where meaning is contested and conquered.
Mental Health Awareness Mondays — Leading with Heart: The Transformative Power of Empathetic Leadership
Research suggests that empathy is a skill that can be honed and is beneficial to all. Empathetic leadership is an art form to convey to your team that you value them as individuals, all while maintaining a keen focus on the organization’s success.
Why Should Publishers Conserve Nature?
What role does/could scholarly publishing play in nature conservation?
Building a Neuro-inclusive Workplace
Organizations that do not actively include and support neurodivergent individuals risk missing out on exceptional talents and undermining employees’ ability to work to their full potential.
Research Integrity, Image Manipulation, Content Provenance and the C2PA
Image integrity has been a growing issue in scholarly publishing. Todd Carpenter suggests we addreess the problem of image integrity at scale.
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.
Guest Post: Trying to Write a Paper with LLM Assistance
I tried three different large language models (LLMs) to rewrite a potential article.
It Takes a Village: Empowering the Community to Improve Scholarly Metadata through COMET
What if the community could collaborate to fix scholarly metadata? The COMET initiative is about to find out…
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Pre-Award Funding Processes: Actions, Not Words
In today’s post, Alice Meadows shares an update on a project to improve DEI in pre-award funding applications.
DEI Under Threat: The Battle for Inclusive Research
With Executive Orders banning mentions of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), what happens to research when these principles are erased? This post explores the risks of a ‘post-DEI’ society—lost data, eroded trust, and weakened scientific progress—and why inclusive research remains critical.
We Could Use a Model Licensing Framework for Scholarly Content Use in AI Tools
Model licenses simplified library licenses in the 2000s. The same approach can streamline licensing scholarly content for AI training today.