During the first Trump administration, Alice Meadows interviewed three women of color who are leaders in their fields about their experiences. In this post, they revisit the topic in the light of their new positions and today’s political environment.
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.
This post is based on a recently-published white paper by Alice Meadows and Josh Brown of MoreBrains Cooperative, in which they discuss why ORCID iDs work best in combination with other researcher identifiers — it’s ORCID and, not ORCID or…
This post explores why many Middle East- and North Africa-based journals remain underrepresented in global indexing databases, how this affects both local and international knowledge flows, and what alternative pathways can bring the region into fuller view.
A report from this year’s Fiesole Retreat: Learning from the Past, Informing the Future.
AI Bots are overwhelming server capacity and impeding access to collections. How big is the problem and what solutions exist?
Roger Schonfeld reflects on lessons from more than 20 years conducting research and supporting the work of libraries, publishers, and the research enterprise.
The French Open Science Monitor Initiative shows a path toward improving recognition of data sharing and open science assessment.
While Open Science frameworks aim for global inclusivity, their implementation often overlooks the complex, everyday realities of research communities across Asia and the Arab world.
These are not normal times. This is a time where we are all navigating new ways of being, new ways of shifting our horizons on an hour-by-hour and day-to-day basis. It’s a time to give grace to one another.
Todd Carpenter describes the new 2029 STM Trends report, which provides a vision and a bridge to the future for the community.
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?
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.
Today, Roger Schonfeld examines several key drivers transforming the monographs marketplace and reflects on strategic opportunities ahead.
What if the community could collaborate to fix scholarly metadata? The COMET initiative is about to find out…