In this segment of Archipelago, explore the recap of events since February of 2025. From the Canada Student Journal Forum, to Coalition Publica, and the PKP Annual General Meeting plus more, there is a lot to be excited about.
Disclosure : I am currently a member of Clarivate Academia AI Advisory Council but I am writing this in my personal capacity. Imagine a first‑year student typing “Tulsa race riot” into the library search box and being greeted with zero results—or worse, an error suggesting the topic itself is off‑limits. Thanks for reading Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
por Ricardo Fernández Castillo Es conocida la proyección internacional de la plata novohispana. Las monedas con el grabado heráldico del escudo de Castilla y desde 1772 con la efigie del rey en turno, circularon en los virreinatos americanos, Estados Unidos, Europa, India y China.
Go on a journey inside Open Journal Systems (OJS) 3.5 user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) developments with PKP’s Devika Goel!
If you follow PKP News, Community Forum, social media, or have attended recent sprints, you have likely learned about Zoe Wake Hyde’s Open Monograph Press (OMP) coordination and review efforts. While this interview does touch on the findings of Zoe’s work, it’s time to get to know Zoe and what drives all this fantastic work. Welcome, Zoe! Can you tell us a bit about yourself?
A review of a recent anti-vaccine preprint
Dieser Post ist der letzte von drei in einer Blogpostreihe der DFG, die sich mit der Bedeutung von Künstlicher Intelligenz für die gute wissenschaftliche Praxis und Open Science auseinandersetzt: Teil I: Die Rolle Künstlicher Intelligenz in der wissenschaftlichen Praxis Teil II: Beziehungen zwischen Open Science und Künstlicher Intelligenz Teil III: Datentracking und Künstliche Intelligenz Teil III: Datentracking und Künstliche Intelligenz Wie
I’m planning another note in the impromptu series on Japan, this one is more academic, presenting a paper I’ve written on Gramsci’s over-used line about ‘interregnum’. From kinetic conflicts, geopolitical rivalry, economic imbalances, societal polarisation, energy transitions, environmental destruction, technological transformations and much more, evidence of an order breaking is easy to find.
The Crossref Board recently approved three recommendations for changes to our fees: introduction of a new lowest membership fee tier, removal of volume discounts for record registration, and normalisation of registration fees for peer reviews. The changes will be applied from January 2026.
I’m excited to announce a new release of vcr: v2. vcr helps you record and replay HTTP interactions in your tests (and more now, see below). This release brings improvements in usability and security, it streamlines the API, and adds many new features.
In the past decade or two, I’ve seen a LOT of popular science books of this form: where the noun in question might be salt or wood or math or clouds or daydreaming or whatever. It’s not enough to write an engaging book on Topic X without somehow, by tortuously overreaching, making it the underpinning of life itself. If we ever do an SV-POW!