PKP invites those interested in the developments that underpin its scholarly publishing software to join in on December 15th, 2025, for a Development News Update Webinar. This event is open to all our community members.
There are two things I try to keep in mind when preparing or delivering teaching. Helpfully, they are both described in xkcd comics. Ten Thousand Average Familiarity The first comic (Ten Thousand) is a reminder that, as teachers, we are privileged to teach a topic we know well to people who are new to it. To me, this suggests two things for us to do: First, learn to enjoy that feeling of taking someone through a process of discovery.
Are you a researcher, editor, journal manager, librarian, or scholarly communications professional looking to develop your skills? Are you interested in learning more about the values, influences, technologies, and standards shaping today’s scholarly publishing ecosystem?
Deutschland ist ein Einwanderungsland und profitiert von Zuwanderung. Kommunen kommt eine zentrale Rolle als „Orte des Ankommens“ zu. Doch wie können sie dieser Rolle nachkommen, wenn politische wie finanzielle Rahmenbedingungen und ein negativer, gesellschaftlicher Diskurs einem vor Ort positiven Klima für Ankommen und Verwurzelung entgegenstehen?
I recently gave a talk about analyzing vowel formant trajectories using the Discrete Cosine Transform, and people have been asking me about when they could/should use a DCT based model versus a gamm. So, I’ll work through that question here!
It is estimated that children make up one-third of the world’s population. Nevertheless, they constituted 40 percent (49 million) of the 122.6 million forcibly displaced individuals in 2024.
Each October, International Open Access Week invites the global scholarly community to reflect on how knowledge is created, shared, and sustained.
Vom 6. bis 8. Oktober 2025 versammelte sich in Göttingen die europäische und internationale Open-Access-Community unter dem Motto „Crafting the Future of Diamond Open Access: Technical, Social &
I am currently preparing for the courses I teach in term 2 and one of my objectives this year is to create course websites 1 with course material that the students can access but that can also be made available publicly in the hope that they might be useful to someone 2 . It is also an opportunity to move away from a workflow that discourages improvement and makes editing material cumbersome.
A shorter version of this blog post in Dutch has been published earlier on the website of Nederlandse UNESCO Commissie.
Die Perspektiven von Geflüchteten sind in Öffentlichkeit und Politik stark unterrepräsentiert – auch und vor allem beim Thema Asyl- und Flüchtlingspolitik. Das hat auch die Debatte um den Rückblick auf 10 Jahre „langer Sommer der Migration“ nicht geändert.