(28 May 2026) In a December 2025 statement, the International Committee of the Red Cross expressed concern that AI tools were producing believable archival and legal references when information did not…
(1 Jun 2026) “AI models are made with four basic ingredients. The first is talent – the people who design the algorithms. The second is what tech companies call…
(14 Jun 2026) The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities has, for the first time, publicly announced the exclusion of dozens of universities from its upcoming July 2026 edition for promoting…
(12 Jun 2026) A university in this western Japan city has set up a permanent bookshelf called the “Apple Shelf” in its library to create a place for people facing…
(12 Jun 2026) Following the World Health Organization’s declaration of an Ebola outbreak caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern…
(3 Jun 2026) CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society specializing in scientific knowledge management, has announced CAS Connections, a new integration framework designed to embed the CAS Content Collection™ and…
New requirements in the U.K. look to give online publishers more leverage in negotiations with Google, while in Germany, a court has ruled that the company can be held liable…
(3 Jun 2026) China is no longer simply a major contributor to global research output; it is increasingly becoming a key force shaping the future of scholarly publishing. With extraordinary scale in…
(5 Jun 2026) Wolters Kluwer has announced an expanded enterprise AI collaboration with OpenAI. This marks a broader effort and growing collaboration to develop and release AI native solutions that advance…
(10 Jun 2026) the Nature Index has introduced updates to broaden its disciplinary coverage and refine its methodology with the release of the 2026 Research Leaders tables, marking a major step…
(27 May 2026) For most of the history of scholarly publishing, the definition of “end user” was stable enough that no one thought to question it. The user was a researcher,…
(4 Jun 2026) Universities UK (UUK) and Elsevier have announced a partnership aimed at strengthening the evidence base around how UK university research supports the UK Government’s eight priority sectors under…
(Jun 2026) This article explores the topics and issues that trended in academic libraries over the past two years. It draws on research and initiatives from librarians across the profession,…
(6 Jun 2026) About You: You are a highly skilled digital preservation and repository specialist with a passion for shaping the future of library services and digital learning at scale.…
(5 Jun 2026) Plans to ban US researchers from spending federal grants on open access fees unless requests are signed off by agency officials will do little to reduce publishing costs,…
