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Debate: Artificial Intelligence Tools Resolved: AI tools will provide a net benefit to scholarly communication Two debaters argue for and against the proposition. This will be a formal debate, with the result decided by the impact of the arguments on all the Conference participants. An initial ‘baseline’ vote is taken at the start of the debate, and another vote is taken at the end. The winner is the side that has swayed opinion in their favour. • Rick Anderson, University Librarian at Brigham Young University (moderator) • Darrell Gunter, Managing Director at Gunter Media Group (for the motion) • Amanda Licastro, Head of Digital Scholarship at Swarthmore College (against the motion)

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Debate: Resolved: AI tools will provide a net benefit to scholarly communication

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The latest from #UKSGInsights Peter Barr (@tweeterbarr.bsky.social) re: @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social "The collections concept at the University of Sheffield: a varied approach to the role of research library collections" dub.sh/bKwiJWt

The Copyright Conversation LJ recently convened a roundtable of experts to weigh in on a topic that is central to the library profession: copyright. Moderated by Jim Neal, the panel explored the latest developments in copyright...

Last month I got to participate in a panel on copyright issues with a really great group of people, organized by Library Journal. It was an honor and lots of fun. For anyone interested, the transcript and video can be found here:

www.libraryjournal.com/story/ljx260...

The latest from #UKSGInsights "Repository renewal project: a case study from White Rose Libraries" by Thom Blake (@akadidymus.bsky.social, @uoylibrary.bsky.social), Andy Bussey (@unisheffieldlib.bsky.social) and Kate Petherbridge (@wrunipress.bsky.social) - doi.org/10.1629/uksg...

Go for it! And best of luck.

The short answer is "everyone is doing this." We've been doing IRs and library publishing for 20 years, with varying degrees of success -- but so far, nothing proven both sustainable and scalable. The reasons are many, but we don't like hearing them, so we mostly ignore them and keep on churning.

Great read! Make time to go through it.

Ten years of a ‘quiet culture war’: where does it stand now? | Insights

About ten years ago, I published an essay titled "A Quiet Culture War in Research Libraries -- and What It Means for Librarians, Researchers, and Publishers." Today I publish an update in @uksg.bsky.social _Insights_:

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It's a report titled "Safeguarding Scholarly Communication: Publisher Practices to Uphold Research Integrity," apparently created in collaboration with @researchconsulting.bsky.social

Here at #ape2026, @carolinesutton.bsky.social is teasing a “big announcement” from STM later in her talk…

Interview with Rick Anderson Libraries, OA analysis, music, and work-life balance, it's all on the table

I was honored to be interviewed by Kent Anderson and Joy Moore for their Disrupted Science podcast. It was a fun conversation!

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#00108386617 in Commonwealth of Mass. v. National Institutes of Health (1st Cir., 25-1343) – CourtListener.com JUDGMENT. Affirmed. [25-1343, 25-1344, 25-1345] (AVN) [Entered: 01/05/2026 04:36 PM]

This is very big news: an appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration can't unilaterally impose a cap on indirect-cost rates for research universities.

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Why We Must Work Together to Harden the Scholarly Supply Chain - The Scholarly Kitchen At the STM innovation and Integrity days in London last week, it's clear that research integrity has become an increasingly pressing issue. Many publishers are reporting significant increases in submi...

"The systems that we currently have aren't robust enough for the level of quality assurance we need."

How might libraries help with this problem?

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The bow tie is pretty effective camouflage! No one assumes I’m a reggae musician either… 😀

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Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants Washington, DC– Upon further review, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has reinstated all federal grants. This action supersede...

It looks like all IMLS grants have now been restored: www.imls.gov/news/stateme...

How about if they did both?

Robert P. George and the Great Campus Vibe Shift As progressive orthodoxy weakens, academe’s most influential conservative warns of a growing illiberalism on the right.

"I always begin with first principles. The whole purpose of a college or university is to seek the truth and then to speak the truth as best we understand it."

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Has anyone else been surprised, when serving as a peer reviewer, how often you check a source and find that it doesn't support (or even says the opposite of) the assertion in support of which it was cited by the submitting author? I'm not shocked it happens, obvs, but am surprised by the frequency.

Researcher to Reader is one of the best scholcomm meetings of the year -- and I don't just say that because I'm on the advisory board. ;-) Join us in London for another great program of presentations, workshops, and debate!

In Defense of Pluralism and Diversity: A Modest Manifesto for the Future of Scholarly Communication (Part 2 of 2) - The Scholarly Kitchen An invitation to embrace pluralism and diversity in scholarly communication models -- rather than attempting to impose a single solution.

Today, part 2: a five-point "modest manifesto" for a scholcomm future characterized not by universal openness, but by pluralism and a diversity of publishing models.

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The Global Transition Has Already Happened – It's Just Not the One You Expected (Part 1 of 2) - The Scholarly Kitchen The global scholarly publishing ecosystem has already transitioned -- not to open access, but to a diverse hybrid system. So much the better.

The global scholarly publishing ecosystem has already transitioned — not to open access, but to a diverse hybrid system. So much the better.

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The latest from #UKSG Insights - experience of libraries developing and hosting #diamondOA publishing, Cath Dishman, LJMU @cathdishman.bsky.social and Rebecca Wojturska, @edinburghdiamond.bsky.social University of Edinburgh dub.sh/xeaT0vh

Conference Programme R2R 2026 Conference Programme The full Programme for 2026 Conference is listed below; the timetable will be set out in November, and the Lightning Talks will be announced in January. The programme …

Check out the full program of next year's Researcher to Reader Conference! It's going to be amazing. Join us in London!

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Eight Things Every Library Leader Has to Do (Part 1) As some readers may have noticed, the basic sales pitch for this newsletter has always been “this is your chance to learn the easy way a bunch of things I learned the hard way.” In that…

Communicate too much. That's item #1 in what will be an eight-part series on "Eight Things Every Library Leader Has to Do."

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AI tools tackle paper mill fraud overwhelming peer review th more article submissions and fraudulent activity than ever before, journal peer review processes are creaking under the pressure. Nina Notman discovers how AI and automated tools are taking some of...

Using AI for good?

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Bullying from Below: A Surprisingly Pervasive Feature of Academic Libraries This topic is a bit uncomfortable to write about — partly because it can sound like privileged whining (“Being a leader is so hard! People are so mean!”), and partly because it ca…

In today's installment of my twice-weekly blog on academic library leadership, I address an issue we never talk about: the phenomenon of "bullying from below." Comments welcome!

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Higher education institution (HEI) libraries in the UK undertake a variety of interlibrary loan (ILL) and document supply operations, against a current background of increasing budgetary pressures. This article considers the foundations in so‑called library privilege exceptions in copyright law that underpin the long‑standing practice of ILL, aiming to address recurring issues and questions around what is permitted within the legislation, and which limitations apply. The focus is on addressing the ILL situation as it exists for non‑profit UK HEI academic libraries, including looking at some perceived ‘grey areas’.

The latest Opinion from #UKSGInsights journal: Andrew Johnson from the University of Sheffield Library - "Interlibrary loans, subscriptions and copyright in the UK academic library sector" dub.sh/55gEiGy