A Scholarly Communication landscape scan and update with Danny Kingsley

We live in interesting times. The US is facing serious cuts to research funding and library budgets while the UK higher education sector is in financial crisis. Meanwhile there are restrictions in the US on the types of research that can be undertaken and with whom. Less research means less publishing, and the impact on academic publishing is yet to be fully realised. For libraries, federal interference with the Library of Congress subject headings is a concern. Concurrently the emergence of AI at scale has implications for the way our users engage with information. Indeed, what is ‘knowledge’ in this new environment? We face some profound questions about discovery and libraries' role in the rescue of and access to research information.