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,…

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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?".

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: 👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/10/15/i...

“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: "Peace in Action"

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

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

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... #OAbooks @operaseu.bsky.social

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/

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. 🔗 doi.org/10.4000/13znp @gvagrad.bsky.social @openedition.bsky.social

The @gvagrad-research.bsky.social's latest Research Bulletin is out, filled with publications, research events, calls for papers, and more! 👇 mailchi.mp/graduateinst...

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

Join us for a film screening of the documentary  Intercepted by Oksana Karpovych, a haunting look into war through intercepted phone calls. 📍 Maison de la Paix 📅 04 June, 17:30 🔗https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/events/film-screening-intercepted-oksana-karpovych @gvagrad.bsky.social

Due to an excessively high number of visitors today, access to the library is now limited to the Geneva Graduate Community only.

💥Join us for this online event to talk about populism and citizen participation in Latin America. 🎤 Chair: @sbussu.bsky.social 🗓️ Thu, 22 May 2025 16:00 - 17:00 CEST www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-will-o... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

#Researchers, complete your @orcid.org profile the smart way! #OpenAIREEXPLORE now lets you auto-sync all your outputs, articles, data, software, straight to your #ORCID record. Learn more & try it today www.openaire.eu/openaire-exp... #ORCID #OpenScience #ResearchTools

Did Open Access make progress at the Institute in 2024, or did we hit a brick wall? Find out in our barometer!

Really happy to see my new article in @econsocjournal.bsky.social I followed the everyday labour of microfinance workers as they collect loans from women in India and navigate care with profit-maximisation, showing the social and emotional infrastructures that create finance for the underbanked.

Can't wait to be back at @gvagrad.bsky.social to discuss my book on belligerent reprisals. Many thanks to Paola Gaeta, Nico Krisch and @gvagrad-law.bsky.social for making this possible. For those interested, please join us on 8th May, 12.15-14.00! @cambup-law.bsky.social @genevaacademy.bsky.social

“Civil War” by Alex Garland, or an American nightmare America is in the grip of a civil war. Secessionist states are attempting to overthrow the government. Despite the risks, Lee Smith, a renowned photojournalist, and three followers make their way to Washington in the hope of securing an…

💎🔓 We are now #DiamondOA! No fees, no paywalls — just open, peer-reviewed research on the world of work 🌍 📚 Proud to partner with @openlibhums.bsky.social on this exciting new chapter! 🚀

Children and their rights - a view from the Library

Available under call number 342.7, HEIA 134007 ;-)

My article (written with Signe Predmore) on finance's women's inclusion agenda across Indian microfinance and US high finance is out in a fantastic volume in @finandsoc.bsky.social with excellent articles on performativity, inclusion, green transition and more! @gvagrad-gc.bsky.social

Join us TOMORROW for a discussion on the future of business and #HumanRights with @michaelposner.bsky.social of NYU Stern, author of Conscience Incorporated-Pursue Profits While Protecting Human Rights and a leading expert at the intersection of business, ethics, & human rights: 👉 shorturl.at/93yiP

🎤 Your Voice Matters! 📢 Want to shape the future of social development? Here’s your chance! Share your thoughts in a quick interview—plus, there’s a blog contest with a shot at being published by the UN! 🔗 www.unrisd.org/en/activitie... @gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagradlibrary.bsky.social

Surviving in a time of no-deal with Wiley Read and Publish agreements are very convenient for researchers. You can publish open access in your favourite journals, at no cost (to you). But all good things have their downside, as we all know. As academic publishing is largely controlled by an…

Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms. It really works.

As Spring is approaching, so comes the yearly Sustainability Week. Here are a few words on the topic to accompany a small selection of titles on display at the entrance of the Library.

Join us for the screening of the documentary 'Made in Ethiopia', and panel discussion: STRENGTHENING ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS With Assistant Prof. Bernard Keo & Forum programmer @pmottaz.bsky.social 📅Weds 12 March, 18:30, Maison de la paix, Geneva In partnership with @fifdh.bsky.social

The month of March is all about women and diversity, with International Women's Day (IWD) on March 8 and Geneva’s Gender Equality Week from March 4 to 14.

NEW Publication! CCDP Research Associate Alaa Tartir, PhD. Tartir, PhD, alongside Jeremy Wildeman and Salma Shaheen, has co-authored a new study: “Shrinking Space for Palestinian Civil Society: 2017-2022 and the War on Gaza.” broederlijkdelen.be/en/nieuws/st... @gvagrad-research.bsky.social

New 📖✨! How do narratives in #education channels contribute to—or hinder—peacebuilding in post-conflict societies? Jessica Peery Viggers explores this question with a focus on #Rwanda. 🏆 Winner @norrag.bsky.social Prize | in open-access on @openedition.bsky.social - doi.org/10.4000/13azb 🔗

Join the launch of Professor @dominic-rohner.bsky.social's New Book: "The Peace Formula: Voice, Work, and Warranties, Not Violence" offering groundbreaking insights into the causes of conflict and strategies for peacebuilding. 📅March 10th shorturl.at/uC6uq #academicsky #booksky

Read our latest Research Bulletin, a summary of the latest publications, grants, multimedia, calls for papers, upcoming PhD defences, and more! 👇 shorturl.at/K7jPD

Direct democracy mechanisms (DDM) have proliferated throughout Latin America. This chapter shines a light on their effectiveness in resolving conflicts pertaining to an especially hot topic in debates on development: natural resources #NewPublication @welpita.bsky.social @gvagradlibrary.bsky.social

Available Open Access on academic.oup.com/book/57867

Our heartfelt congratulations to Professor @abclapham.bsky.social, who won the 2025 Paul Reuter Prize for his book 'War'! The prize is given by the @icrc.org to books that enhance knowledge of IHL and stand out for their authoritative, innovative, humanitarian, useful, and general nature.

Ohhh. The effort has made Wikipedia: Deletion of United States government data (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletio...)

My #LoveData25 #LoveDataWeek25 contribution: datahoarding.org

Celebrate the Love Data Week with us ❤️📊 Find out about all the events taking place in Switzerland at: www.researchdatasupport.ch/lovedata #epfl #epfllibrary #LoveDataWeek #DataMatters #DataAwareness

Happy Love Data Week, everyone. Here is our love letter to you .... and public data. #LoveDataWeek #LoveData25 docs.google.com/document/d/1...