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Report: Between Google Scholar and ChatGPT: How Economics and Business Students Conduct Research in 2026
From ZBW (Leibniz Information Centre for Economics) MediaTalk: Students in economics and business studies today draw on a wide range of information environments when searching for academic literature. Google Scholar, library catalogues and generative AI are part of their everyday research routines. But what role do traditional subject-specific databases still [...]
Just Released: The State of U.S. Academic Libraries: Findings From ACRL 2025 Annual Survey
Direct to Full Text Report: The State of U.S. Academic Libraries: Findings From the ACRL 2025 Annual Survey 25 pages; PDF. From an ACRL Post: This report focuses on U.S. academic libraries in fiscal year 2025 (the 2024–25 academic year). With the sunset of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System [...]
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Results From Ithaka S+R US Researcher Survey Released
Buffeted by Change, Researchers Seek Continuity and Investment: Results from the Ithaka S+R US Researcher Survey was written by: Chelsea McCracken Dylan Ruediger Ruby MacDougall From the Report’s Executive Summary: The research enterprise in the United States, established after the second world war, is experiencing massive disruption. US colleges and universities are grappling with federal […]
Research Article: “The Future Of Scholarly Blogs: Scholarly Bloggers’ Perspectives On Long-Term Preservation”
The article linked below was recently published by JASIST (Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology). Title The Future of Scholarly Blogs: Scholarly Bloggers’ Perspectives on Long-Term Preservation Authors Catharina Ochsner Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Heinz Pampel Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin […]
New Data: PEN America Tracks Record School Book Bans (12,000) For a Single Year; Record Number of Unique Book Titles, at 7,000, Were Banned, as New State Laws, Artificial Intelligence, and Political Pressure Drives Censorship in Schools
From PEN America: PEN America today reported nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools nationwide during the 2025-2026 school year—the largest number in a single year. New state censorship laws accounted for much of the increase, coupled with the use of artificial intelligence to remove books en masse including popular manga series and other graphic […]
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Now Available: Article Preprints For portal: Libraries and the Academy (Volume 26, Number 4)
New online from Johns Hopkins University Press. Article Preprints For portal: Libraries and the Academy (Volume 26, Number 4). Documenting Professional Service as Scholarship in Academic Librarianship Author(s): Ellysa Stern Cahoy A Framework for Sustainable LibGuide Review: Lessons from a Library-Wide Initiative (Worth Noting) Author(s): Evie Cordell, Kate Lambardia, Piper Martin Three Decades of Censorship […]
Elena, Aris, Marcus: : AI-Generated ‘Ghosts’ are Polluting the Scientific Literature
From Nature: Elena Vasquez spent three months camping on the rim of Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo back in 2019. She says the sulfur dioxide there smelt like “burnt matches mixed with rotten eggs”. Her colleague, Marcus Chen, has witnessed 11 volcanic eruptions across four continents. Vasquez and Chen’s accounts appeared […]
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Mellon Foundation Releases: “Mapping the Landscape of Community-Based Archives” Report
From the Mellon Foundation: Today, the Mellon Foundation released “Powerful but Precarious: Mapping the Landscape of Community-Based Archives,” the first national study of its kind. Produced in partnership with research firm Engage R+D, the study draws on a survey of 336 independent, community-led archives, and in-depth interviews with more than 20 practitioners across the country. […]
Report: Chinese-Owned Science Journal Created to Rival the Best
From Nature: A new Chinese-owned journal has set its sights on rivalling the world’s oldest and most influential academic titles. Vita is one of several English-language journals that have launched in China in the past couple of years. They represent the country’s latest effort to create prestigious global journals, as part of the government’s Journal […]
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