This year marks the 10th anniversary of the State of Open Data, a collaboration between Digital Science, Figshare, and Springer Nature, that has tracked researcher attitudes toward data sharing across 192 countries every year since 2016. The 2025 edition draws on a full decade of longitudinal evidence to identify where real progress has been made, where momentum has stalled, and what new forces are reshaping the open data landscape.

For the past two months, I have had the opportunity to work as a student helper in the Library’s Archives and Special Collections, helping set up an exhibition titled “Travelling in Maps: Exploring Tourist Asia (1890-1950)”. This showcases a selection of travel maps created during a transformative period in Asian travel history, with improving transportation networks turning perilous journeys into more accessible explorations, allowing more people to have access to tourism.

The fast development and release of automated tools is transforming how we conduct research. Many of these tools (technologies) appear to be very powerful: allowing us to do our work much faster, and maybe more efficiently. But they create a question: as we integrate these tools into our scholarly work, how do we ensure that we are not just doing things faster, but also doing them right?

A practical, librarian-recommended way to find open primary sources for teaching and research without hopping between dozens of institutional platforms.

As HKUST celebrates its 35th anniversary, the Library reflects on a story that began alongside the founding of our University. It is a story of innovation, partnership, enduring care, and the quiet dedication that has supported our academic mission for over three decades.