The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) is the first and largest cancer research organization dedicated to accelerating the conquest of cancer. AACR recognized that using Content Clarity to analyze its entire collection would ensure all articles were updated to the latest constructs in NISO JATS 1.3 that ensure content interoperability and accessibility. AACR understood the value in creating uniform well-polished "atoms" from legacy materials for use in rapid development of new product offerings. Items such as equations, tables, funding information, bibliographies, etc. are easily captured when structured in the updated JATS format and provides flexibility for new uses.

A panel of 17 publishing leaders and consultants weigh in on their predictions for 2024 and beyond in this third annual report on publishing technology trends from Silverchair and Hum. DCL was excited to take part and VP of Marketing Marianne Calilhanna shared some bold predictions. Themes covered in the report include AI, user experience, content discovery, personalization, data analytics, workflow efficiencies and more.

Making the Greatest Medical Library in America is a new online exhibit that showcases items featured in the 1878 display to explore the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) long history of collecting, cataloging, and communicating quality medical information to researchers, publishers, librarians, educators, healthcare professionals, and the public for decades. John Shaw Billings was an Army surgeon and book collector who oversaw the U.S. Surgeon General's library, which became the NLM. On a quest to bring together and catalog the world's medical knowledge, John Billings acquired approximately 300 pamphlets from the private collection of the renowned French physiologist Claude Bernard in 1878.

Some of you may recall the famous 1977 short film by Charles and Ray Eames called The Power of Ten. The film shows the size of the universe by starting at human scale and zooms out further then returns back to Earth and zooms in to the microscopic layer. In an updated version of this story, Kurzgesagt focuses on human scale by comparing everything against it at each step. By maintaining comparisons the story is immensely compelling and impactful. The focus is on the individual and keeps scale in perspective.