The Kortext blog
Welcome to the Kortext blog, where you’ll discover insights, opinions and interviews from across the higher education sector.
From planning to confirmation: your transition workflow checklist
A step-by-step checklist to help your library navigate a supplier transition with confidence, from early planning through to go-live and review.
Sign Language – an open access collection
To mark Sign Language Week, we’ve picked five open access titles from our sign language collection. Whether you’re a linguistics student, a Deaf studies researcher, or simply curious about sign languages, these titles offer rich insights.
Finalising your APUC Lot 1 and SUPC Lot 4 transition
As June draws closer, many university libraries are moving from early planning into final decision-making on their Lot 1 or Lot 4 transitions. Here are the key considerations we’re seeing across the sector.
Thriving at university with study+ and stream
In this blog, Rachel Maxwell explores how Kortext study+ and Kortext stream are designed to enhance student health and wellbeing.
Celebrating Kortext’s ladies in leadership
For International Women’s Day 2026, we asked some of our women leaders to share, in their own words, the impact of their work at Kortext.
LGBT+ History Month – an open access collection
Read our blog to discover five free-to-access LGBTQ+ titles from our curated LGBT+ History Month open access collection.
Data: turning insights into action at Teesside University
How can universities move beyond dashboards? Professor Mark Simpson shares how Teesside University used data-driven insight to improve student outcomes and institutional performance.
Transform or be transformed: why digital strategy is now central to university survival
Professor Amanda Broderick reflects on UEL’s Vision 2028 strategy, sharing how digital-first transformation has driven resilience, growth and sector-leading outcomes.
AI is challenging us to relocate our sense of educational purpose in the outward-future rather than the inward-past
As AI transforms higher education, Sam Grogan urges universities to look beyond efficiency and assessment to reconsider the true purpose of education.