By Ruth A Pagell* (22 Sept 2025) What changes are Times Higher Education making? How does QS describe quality control for its Reputation Rankings? What marks the end of an era at U.S. News? I have been struggling with this article since rankings seem trivial compared to what I read in my national…
(12 Sept 2025) The American Chemical Society (ACS) Publications division has announced a webinar series titled Open Science Essentials, running from September to November 2025. Each session will examine a distinct aspect of open science, featuring expert panels that address central issues and respond to audience questions. Open science encompasses practices aimed at improving transparency, accessibility, and reproducibility across…
(19 Sept 2025) SMU Libraries is pleased to invite you to an insightful and engaging online event in celebration of UNESCO’s Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2025. This year, the theme is “Minds Over AI – MIL in Digital Spaces,” a topic that couldn’t be more relevant in our rapidly evolving digital world. From Friday,…
Should online retailers put more effort into the editorial process for AI books? (13 Sept 2025) Each month, between 10,000 and 40,000 e-books are released that utilize ChatGPT or other AI platforms. However, the actual number of AI books that do not disclose their use is likely higher. Things are so bad at Amazon that…
(17 Sept 2025) The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Annual Salary Survey 2024, which analyzes salary data for professional staff working in 123 of the 125 ARL member libraries during 2024. Data are reported for 11,256 professional staff from 118 university ARL libraries in Canada and the United States and for 2,040 professional…
(17 Sept 2025) Elsevier has announced that it is developing a next-generation end-to-end AI-powered solution for academic and corporate researchers in collaboration with the research community. The solution is intended to transform the research workflow by helping scientists move more quickly from insights to impact while safeguarding research integrity, transparency, and trust. The effort is described as…
(3 Sept 2025) The programme – Transforming University Libraries: Library Leadership & Innovation Programme (TULLIP) – is designed to Reimagine Libraries of the Future through experiential learning beyond the classroom. National University of Singapore would be thrilled to have your colleagues participate and take advantage of this exciting opportunity. TULLIP aims to bridge the gap…
(11 Sept 2025) The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) has released new retraction guidelines designed to address growing challenges such as paper mill activity, fraudulent authorship, and undeclared third-party involvement. The new framework specifies that journals should retract work when authorship cannot be verified, when accountability is uncertain, or when any form of misrepresentation—including deception, fraud (e.g., a…
In this interview, Madeline Kelly discusses the Western Washington University Libraries’ annual collections evaluation process and what she’s learned about sharing news of subscription cancellations. (3 Sept 2025) Academic library spending continued to decrease between 2014 and 2022, with per student spending dropping almost 20 percent (Jung and Choi, 2025). Combined with recent events such…
(4 Sept 2025) To meet increasing customer demand for sophisticated digital formats and workflows, ASTM International is broadening its direct sales efforts and will not be renewing its long-standing and healthy reseller relationship with Accuris (formerly IHS). ASTM has recently completed a multi-year overhaul of its existing IT infrastructure, enabling significant improvements to its flagship…