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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.

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

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There's no built-in AI in Zotero, but various plugins allow users to chat with PDFs from their Zotero library-though these often come with costs. Many academic AI search tools also offer some level of Zotero integration. I've added a new page to my Zotero libguide.

A library shelf advertising a zine collection, a box containing zines, and a "Make Zines!" poster

A box of zines

Anarchy in the Library! #zines
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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.

“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…

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!

Our newest book display honours China and East Asia in preparation for the Lunar New Year.

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…

Still unsettled by the new version of Zotero? Here are some tips to become a power user!
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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.

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.

📚 New Publication | Research Article by Emilian Berutti

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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.

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.

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?

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,…

Comic-style poster warning that commercial publishers are “eating your journal’s brains,” promoting the Open Library of Humanities.

It’s spooky season… 🧟‍♂️
Don’t feed the zombies. Support diamond open access!
The zombie poster is back!
#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #Halloween

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.

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?

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.

What goes on behind the scenes so our researchers can publish open access articles with as little hassle as possible? #OAWeek

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.

Unpaywall & co. - how to quickly find OA versions of paywalled articles, and make it easier for others too!

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.

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.

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.

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!

For the third time, the Library will celebrate International Open Access Week with various events and exhibitions set up by our open science librarians. The week's theme this year is "Who owns our knowledge?".

A purple banner with the International Open Access Week logo and the words 'Open Access Week 2025, October 20-26, 2025, #OAWeek' next to an image of a person staring up at a starry night sky with the OA padlock symbol in the stars.

OA WEEK: Next week (20-26 October) is #OAWeek!

At the OABN, in collaboration with @copim.bsky.social , we've gathered as many online events as we can find that relate to OA books or open infrastructures & shared the details in this post:

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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…

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.

Geneva Peace Week 2025: "Peace in Action"

Available at @gvagradlibrary.bsky.social under call number 21.6(73) HEIA 133885 #BannedBooksWeek

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…

It's banned books (and films) week in the library! Check out our list of forbidden texts in our collection and take the opportunity to reflect on the current state of free speech in and outside of libraries.

Democracy week, October 1-9: Reinventing democracy At the end of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama believed that Western liberal democracy would become the universal form of government. However, the times they are a-changin, and today, it seems that history is repeating itself as a farce, with the 2020s bearing a striking resemblance to the 1930s. It's not a surprise, then, that democracy has become a key topic in our collection.

Democracy Week is coming soon! A quick look at our selection on display in the Library.

An event card showing the details of the event that are given in the post. It also says 'An OABN webinar with the support of the ERC Executive Agency'.

EVENT: Join us at our next free webinar, 'Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors'

📆 Tuesday 30 September
⏰ 11am BST / 12pm CEST

Find out more & register: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/09/03/p...

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Open Science round-up: The future of knowledge and who should control it  - International Science Council In this issue, we feature an editorial by Amy Brand, Director at MIT Press, who shares her insights on how the unchecked use of published research in AI may threaten the integrity, sustainability, and future of scientific publishing.

Open Science round-up: The future of knowledge and who should control it - International Science Council https://council.science/blog/open-science-round-up-july-august-2025/

Some royalty-free pictures of our library are indeed very popular. We are always happy to find them in unexpected contexts 🙂

Data Rescue Project Launches New Portal The Data Rescue Project (DRP) is excited to announce the launch of the DRP Portal—a milestone in our collective effort to protect and preserve at-risk public information. As of June 2025, DRP voluntee...

The Data Rescue Project has launched the Data Rescue Project Portal (www.datarescueproject.org/data-rescue-...). It is a dashboard for our tracker and provide more visibility for data rescues across the DR community. It is still in beta & we welcome any feedback. We hope that you find it useful. ❤️🛟

📚 New Book
De/Colonising Palestine: Contemporary Debates
Riccardo Bocco and Ibrahim Saïd, Eds

A powerful contribution bringing together 38 authors and diverse perspectives for a critical exploration of the Palestine Question.

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