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Guest Post — Well-meant Is Not Well-done:  A Reply to “European Accessibility Act: Navigating the Challenges of EAA Compliance”

While large international players showcase well-resourced compliance roadmaps toward accessibility compliance, many in the European publishing landscape are facing a more sobering reality:  legal ambiguities, economic limits, and structural mismatches between regulatory goals and scholarly publishing practices.

  • By László Simon-Nanko
  • Jul 31, 2025
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  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Guest Post — Digital Humanities, Data Literacy Skills and AI: Understanding the Way Things Work

New data literacy and artificial literacy standards are necessary and emerging. The workflows and iterative mindsets the Digital Humanities can help inform our approaches.

  • By Jess Ludwig
  • Aug 10, 2023
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  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Peer Review and Humanities Online: An Interview with Daryle Williams about the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation

Key insights on how peer review functions for a new journal, handling data on individual lives of people enslaved in the historical slave trade, that serves both academic and public audiences.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Sep 21, 2022
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  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Opening The Book: SSP Charleston Pre-Conference Video Now Available

The SSP’s Charleston Pre-Conference Session looked at key issues and challenges in OA monograph publishing as well as how best to evaluate new OA book models and their potential ROI.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jan 28, 2022
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Reading About Libraries and Librarians

Libraries and librarians the world over are complex, diverse, and distinctive — and they make for fascinating reading.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Dec 16, 2021
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  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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