Gold Leaf Blog
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Read more: Ave et Vale, Brigitte!
Ave et Vale, Brigitte!
[written by Brigitte Shull] Next week I will return to Springer Nature, joining the OA team. It isn’t goodbye to Gold Leaf though, I’m hopeful that there will be more opportunities for me to collaborate with Linda and Annika Bennett again. I’ve done so for the past 13 years, first as a client at Cambridge…
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Read more: APE Conference 2026: Scholarly Communication at a Turning Point
APE Conference 2026: Scholarly Communication at a Turning Point
Conference participants on their way to the next session (© Photothek) What does it take to uphold research excellence? What do librarians think about AI in the scholarly environment? How can we combat inequalities in academic publishing? This year’s APE conference tackled these questions and more. Every year, the APE Conference (Academic Publishing in Europe) brings together…
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Read more: Webinar – Open Access in Asia – not a cookie-cutter approach
Webinar – Open Access in Asia – not a cookie-cutter approach
5 March 2026, 14.00-15.30 China/Singapore time(11.30am-1pm India time) Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter Brill Publishers and librarians are agreed that to achieve maximum impact, Open Access needs global adoption. However, this does not mean that every country must take the same approach. Individual OA models are likely to work better in…
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Read more: Webinar – Building the airplane while taking control and flying it: AI and academic libraries
Webinar – Building the airplane while taking control and flying it: AI and academic libraries
29 January 2026, 15.00-16.30 CET(2pm-3.30pm BST) Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter Brill How are AI tools reshaping academic libraries’ strategies, services, and workflows—and what new content, platforms, and tools are libraries seeking from publishers? De Gruyter Brill has long been tracking the progress of Artificial Intelligence in academic libraries worldwide. Each…
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Read more: Webinar – Preserving our cultural heritage: academic libraries in the community
Webinar – Preserving our cultural heritage: academic libraries in the community
4 December 2025, 15.00-16.30 CET(2pm-3.30pm BST) Webinar hosted by Gold Leaf, sponsored by De Gruyter Brill The academic library has always played a major role in curating rare works. Some libraries hold unique collections of ephemera and artefacts, while others deploy modern technologies to capture past oral traditions or the literature of ethnic minorities before…
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