Lab Girl is a triumphant tale of a scientist who succeeds in becoming a researcher and creating her own lab, against the odds for a woman struggling against a male-dominated research culture. Her writing about the natural world is remarkable, full …
Anyone with an interest in Open Science and the role of repositories will find the ATG interview with Abel Packer, co-founder of SciELO, fascinating. SciELO is both a national provider of publishing services for journals, and an aggregator of content, active …
The first page of the Geneva Bible, 1560 edition – with annotations
The literature review is one of the core components of the scholarly lifecycle. To begin your research, you see what has been said and done. Life being short, you …
Bust of Cicero, perhaps the most famous Roman orator (Vatican Museums, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Anyone with an interest in humanities studies in the US will have heard of the current struggles over funding and the National Endowment of the Humanities. Joy …
Numbered drawers holding objects in the collection of the Spalding Gentlemen’s Society, one of the earliest learned societies in England, founded 1710 [my photo]
If they have, you might not have thought so from the ISKO-UK annual conference (7 October 2025). …
It is a commonplace that the act of reading is a worthy use of your time. However nonsensical that idea might be (nobody expects to be praised for the number of journal articles they read), it’s …
The TLS, from a sans-serif to a serif title: is this significant?
Does anyone still read the literary periodicals, usually referred to by their abbreviated titles such as LRB, TLS, and NYRB? Those sad souls like myself who get a weekly …
Scholarly publishing loves surveys. Perhaps because accurate quantitative information is so difficult to come by in the fragmented and often commercial (and hence private) world of scholarly publishing, many commentators opt for a …
Graphic by Copilot, to illustrate “Using Chrome without checking sources may be dangerous”
A 2025 paper by Olof Sundin worries about people using Google Search uncritically. Specifically, it points out how Google has changed the way it delivers search results over …
