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Explore innovative publishing models that support open science, enhance research transparency, and foster global collaboration in the evolving landscape of scholarly communication.

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Guest Post — When AI Helps Write Research: What Happens to Lived Experience? - The Scholarly Kitchen

In honor of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, today's post shares results from an experiment with qualitative data analysis — demonstrating that, while AI can detect patterns, humans must decide wha...

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Open access publishing at the Graduate Institute: the 2025 barometer

Since 2021, the Graduate Institute has agreements with major publishers that make it easier for researchers to publish open access (OA) articles. They have taken advantage of this opportunity and the proportion of OA articles has risen sharply. But a detailed analysis shows that the path taken may be unsustainable, and that most researchers are still neglecting simple ways to make their research accessible.

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The Library’s Palmes d’or

Cannes is not the only place to celebrate Cinema! The Library's collection hold twenty films that won the famous festival's supreme award in its collections.

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SNSF Grantee? Anticipation is key!

Something that makes our colleague Catherine Brendow cringe as an open access publication librarian: researchers contacting her because their SNF-funded article has just been published behind a paywall and asking me "What can I do now?" Unfortunately, we don't have a magic wand. If you plan ahead (and sometimes opt for an alternative journal), the process will be much smoother.

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Civil resistance against systems of oppression: Discover the Right Livelihood Collection in Salon Davis

Visit our latest book exhibition and step into stories of courage and resistance. A guest post by Right Livelihood.

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LibGuides: Zotero: Zotero and AI

LibGuides: Zotero: Zotero and AI

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“The apprentice” by Ali Abbasi: how Trump became Trump

Ruthless lawyer of New York, Roy Cohn spots a timid blond in a private club. Inviting him to his table, he makes the acquaintance of Donald J. Trump. In the seventies, Manhattan is nothing but a rotting apple. Sex, drugs, poverty, and violence haunt its long avenues. An aspiring real estate developer, Trump dreams of restoring its splendor and prestige. Through lawsuits, blackmail, and corruption, he will succeed, under the guidance of his new mentor.

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Lunar New Year

The Library will celebrate the Year of the Horse, starting on February 17th, with a display of titles about East and Southeast Asian countries and their cultures. Read further if you want to learn more about the Lunar New Year!

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10 advanced ways to become a more proficient Zoteroist

Zotero is now fully integrated into your daily workflow and you’ve mastered all the basic features. Congrats! But did you know that Zotero can do much more than simply act as a citation manag…

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Love Data Week: Where is the Data?

February 09-14 is International Love Data Week 2026! This year's theme is ""Where is the Data?". The Geneva Graduate Institute Library is organising some events for the occasion.

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Love Data Week: Where is the Data?

February 09-14 is International Love Data Week 2026! This year's theme is ""Where is the Data?". The Geneva Graduate Institute Library is organising some events for the occasion.

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No deal with SAGE Publishing – What next?

As often happens, a major academic publisher has set unreasonable demands in its contract negotiations with the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries, and Swiss universities will start 2026 without a contract to access new publications in SAGE journals, nor possibilities to publish articles open access in these. What does this mean, how does this affect researchers, and how can you help in our struggle against attempts at implementing leonine contracts?

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Why shouldn’t your PhD thesis be accessible to everyone?

A PhD thesis is the result of many years of hard work, and the author generally hopes it will be the start of a successful academic career. But quite often, it is only read by the authors themselves and their supervisors. Who should be allowed to access it, and how? Our colleague Catherine Brendow discusses the main reasons why PhD students are generally reluctant to make their thesis accessible.

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Read and publish agreements: an easier way to publish open access

Swiss universities have signed Read & Publish agreements with several large academic publishers. These agreements enable researchers to publish open access in renowned journals without paying APCs (Article Processing Charges). Our open access specialist Catherine Brendow explains what they are, how they work, and how Geneva Graduate Institute researchers can benefit from them.

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Unpaywall & co.

Sometimes the articles you find through your online searches are locked behind paywalls. In this case, it might be useful to know whether open access versions of these papers exist and how to find them.

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ORCID: Your Researcher ID

Why should you create and use an ORCID profile? An explainer on how this connects you to the open science ecosystem.

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Research funders and open access mandates

Most funders include Open Access mandates in their contractual conditions. Why are they doing this, and what can grantees do to comply with these mandates? OA specialist Catherine Brendow explains.

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International open access week, 20-26 October 2025

For the third time, the Library will celebrate International Open Access Week with various events and exhibitions set up by our open science Librarians Catherine Brendow and Guillaume Pasquier. The week's theme this year is "Who owns our knowledge?". Read to learn more!

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“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” by Mohammad Rasoulof: Woman, Life, Freedom

Iman, an honest man, is appointed as an investigator for the Tehran Revolutionary Courts. This should delight his wife and two daughters. However, following the death of Mahsa Amini—arrested by the police for wearing an inappropriate headscarf—riots erupt in the capital. This new job will finally get them the four-room apartment they've been waiting for, the dishwasher they've been dreaming of, and a few rungs up the social ladder.

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Geneva Peace Week 2025

Give peace a chance! Many people would agree with this sentence, especially those living in places like Gaza or Kyiv. Geneva has claimed to be the capital of peace for more than a century. Our Institute is located in the Maison de la Paix and hosts a specialised research centre - no wonder that peace in all its dimensions is a key theme in our collections.

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Banned books week 2025: October 5-11

Some of the titles in our collection are or were banned or challenged in a variety of countries by governments, religious authorities, or other interest groups. Dictatorships come to mind, of cours…

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