Looking Ahead:

The Future of Geoscience + Scholarship Opportunity

With Earth Day approaching next week, GSW CEO Phoebe McMellon reflects on the essential role of the geosciences in building a sustainable future—and the importance of supporting the next generation of scientists in her most recent blog post. Learn how GSW is advancing this vision through open access research, global collaboration, and the 2025 Graduate Studies Award, a $5,000 scholarship for graduate students bringing fresh ideas and diverse perspectives to the field. We hope you will share this scholarship opportunity with your students and faculty.

Perpetual Access eBook Options

Flexible models and volume discounts make it easy to build a collection that fits your institution’s needs. This year's collection features 51 titles with no price-per-book increase from 2024. The Complete eBook Collection has 2,500+ eBooks spanning the years 1926-2025 from over 15 society publishers.  Our eBooks are perpetual access with no ongoing hosting fees and are cross-searchable and interlinked with the GSW Journals Collections and GeoRef database. 

Self-hosted Proxy Ranges

Our platform provider, Silverchair, has achieved ISO 27001 certification, an important milestone in its commitment to information security. A migration to CloudFlare services is a crucial component of this certification.  

Some institutional proxy IP ranges, especially those that are self-hosted, may need to be added to the allow list for CloudFlare to maintain uninterrupted access. If you haven't already done so, please send me your information and proxy IP range. GSW will take care of the steps to ensure that your proxy access continues smoothly.

COUNTER 5.1 

Recent Trends from ER&L and ACRL 

GSW recently attended and exhibited at two librarian conferences, Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L) and the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), and needless to say, there was much on the minds of the information professionals gathered in Austin and Minneapolis, respectively. Several key themes emerged:

• Federal Budget Cuts and Resource Planning
• Defending Academic Freedom
• AI Tools and Information Literacy
• Banned Books and Collection Challenges
• Building Resilience in Uncertain Times

These conferences demonstrated that academic librarians continue to adapt to political, economic, and technological challenges while remaining committed to core values of access, privacy, and intellectual freedom. The conversations at ER&L and ACRL reflect a profession actively preparing for an uncertain future while preserving its essential mission in higher education.

New! What We're Reading

Matt Hudson, GSW Director of Publishing and Publishing Services, is the inspiration behind this new section. Below he shares two of his most recent reads. We encourage you to share yours! 

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, & Power, by Daniel Yergin -

At 908 pages, this book is not for the faint of heart, but it’s a fascinating overview of the creation and evolution of the oil industry and its role in shaping the global economy. Of particular interest are the portions that describe governmental influence, whether that be embargoes, production caps, tariffs, and antitrust charges or waivers.

An American Childhood, by Annie Dillard - This book captures the joys of discovering oneself amid a complicated, boring, yet endlessly fascinating world. While not about geology, Dillard includes some wonderful descriptions of minerals and the rock-hound lifestyle. “I would lay about me right and left with a hammer, and bash the landscape to bits. I would rack the earth’s crust like a pinata and spread to the light the vivid prizes in chunks within.”

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