The theme of last month’s AACSB International Conference and Annual Meeting (ICAM) – a can’t miss event for Cabells every year – was “Pathways to Impact” and thought leaders and educators from the world of business gathered in Chicago to share the pathways their organizations are taking to positively impact society. We were thrilled to be able to continue our annual tradition of attending and lending our support to AACSB and our shared community.

The fact that so much of our work at Cabells revolves around impact made this year’s event as good a fit as ever. We connect researchers to journals that will help maximize the impact of their work. We also fully embrace the importance of harnessing the power of research to positively impact society, in part by moving from ‘quality’ to ‘impact’ when assessing academic publications. Our work with SJU in developing the SDGII as a tool for measuring and reporting faculty impact on the SDGs through published research has been rewarding and continues to evolve. (News on recent exciting developments soon to come.)
ICAM in Chicago was the second leg of our journey this conference season, the first coming earlier last month when we were excited to find ourselves in Glasgow for the 46th annual United Kingdom Serials Group (UKSG) conference, which was as engaging and exciting as always.

The fun doesn’t end in Glasgow and Chicago for Cabells, we’re looking forward to more adventures throughout the year – keep an eye out for us at:
- Next Stop: The Medical Library Association (MLA) and Special Libraries Association (SLA) conference collaboration MLA / SLA ’23, taking place next week in Detroit. Come say hello to us in Booth # 203!
- The 45th annual Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) meeting, May 31-June 2 in Portland, OR. We’re excited to serve as sponsors of the evening reception at SSP and fortunate enough to be speaking as part of an outstanding panel in a session discussing, “Sustainability, Open Science and Scholarly Communications”
- The 2023 Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Global Forum, June 13-14 in New York City, where we are also proud to lend our support as sponsors and look forward to continuing to champion sustainability initiatives in the scholarly community
- The Academic Libraries North Conference 2023, taking place in Leeds, UK on June 22
- The World Library and Information Congress 88th IFLA General Conference and Assembly – IFLA WLIC 2023 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, August 21-25
- The Charleston Library Conference in Charleston, SC, November 6-10


If you plan on attending any or all of the above events, travel safely and be sure to say hello…we sometimes have chocolate.
