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Environmental Health Advances launches as newest ARC Alliance diamond-open-access journal
The Academic Research Community (ARC) Alliance has officially launched Environmental Health Advances (EHA), a new diamond open-access journal dedicated to environmental health sciences. The publication will focus on advancing knowledge about toxicant-induced disease while highlighting strategies to protect and improve human health. Led by a distinguished team of editors-in-chief from five major research institutions—Dana Dolinoy…
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In Camps, Under Trees and Evicted: Farmworkers and People Living Close to the Line in Northern California
UC Davis Library hosts “In Camps, Under Trees and Evicted,” a traveling exhibition featuring 80+ photographs by labor photographer David Bacon. The collection documents 35 years of farmworkers and impoverished communities in Northern California—from labor camps and homeless encampments to organizing efforts like the 14-year Diamond Walnut strike. Bacon’s work highlights both the invisibility of…
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FSU Libraries selects TIND Digital Archive to power next-generation digital library
Florida State University Libraries has announced plans to migrate its digital collections to TIND Digital Archive, marking a significant upgrade for the FSU Digital Library. The repository currently provides access to more than 125,000 cultural heritage items to faculty, students, and the research community. Managed by the University Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives (SCA), the…
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The Founders, Libraries, and the Danger of Calling Knowledge “Government Speech”
The Freedom to Read Project article examines the rising legal argument that public library book curation constitutes “government speech”—a classification that would exempt such decisions from First Amendment scrutiny. This doctrine, being advanced in cases like Little v. Llano County (where 17 states supported treating library decisions as government expression), threatens to transform libraries from…
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U.S. House of Representatives Report – The Foreign Censorship Threat, Part II: Europe’s Decade-Long Campaign to Censor the Global Internet and How It Harms American Speech in the United States
The House Judiciary Committee has released an interim staff report titled “The Foreign Censorship Threat, Part II,” alleging that the European Commission has conducted a comprehensive decade-long campaign to pressure major social media platforms into changing their global content moderation policies, thereby infringing on American free speech rights within the United States. Based on tens…
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UNC Plans to Define Academic Freedom—and Its Limits
The University of North Carolina Board of Governors is preparing to vote on a comprehensive new definition of academic freedom that would replace the university system’s current two-paragraph policy with extensive parameters governing faculty conduct. Developed through a year-long collaborative process initiated by the Faculty Assembly chair, the proposal defines academic freedom as the foundational…
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