(2 Jun 2026) Wiley today announced it has acquired Emerald Publishing Limited (“Emerald”) from Cambridge Information Group (CIG) in an all-cash transaction valued at £337 million, or USD 452 million. The…
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King, pulled off an ‘incredible double feat’ in succeeding as ‘both a romance and an incisive postcolonial novel’ (19 May 2026) Taiwan…
(14 May 2026) South Korea’s public libraries have exceeded 1,300 nationwide, while annual visits topped 230 million, reflecting improved access and rising use. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism…
(8 May 2026) Nearly 100 library professionals from public universities across Malaysia attended the Library Leadership Seminar hosted by Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS). The seminar was organized by the…
(30 May 2026) On May 30th, Ho Chi Minh City University of Culture, in collaboration with Vietnam Digital Library Joint Stock Company (ViLIB), organized a scientific conference on the theme: “Digital Transformation…
(27 May 2026) China’s academic world has been thrown into turmoil after a former doctoral student launched a series of high-profile allegations accusing some of the country’s most prominent scholars of suspected research…
(28 May 2026) Researchers in Vietnam who fabricate data or plagiarize papers may be permanently barred from future scientific work, according to new guidance from the country’s Ministry of Science and…
(15 May 2026) The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Society of China University Journals (CUJS) have announced a new partnership aimed at improving the visibility and discoverability of Chinese open access journals…
Bookstores in Spain and other countries sell out-of-print copies to the mysterious Canadian company, which scans and shreds the texts to feed artificial intelligence models, generating alarm in the sector…
(21 May 2026) Much of the public conversation about AI in education centers on the risk that students will use it to avoid reading, outsource thinking or produce work detached from…
(28 May 2026) Diamond open access (OA)—understood to mean publishing without fees for either authors or readers—is often framed as an aspirational model for a more equitable scholarly communication system. In…
(26 May 2026) Library Technology Guides has released Library Perceptions 2026: Results of the nineteenth International Survey of Library Automation. The report presents findings from the annual survey of libraries regarding…
(18 May 2026) The 2026 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report | Teaching and Learning Edition identifies the most influential trends and early signals shaping higher education teaching and learning over the next decade. Based…
(22 May 2026) The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has announced a call for proposals for the Open Access Engagement Asia Award, designed to support initiatives that raise awareness of open access…
(26 May 2026) Springer Nature has made a wide range of recent and relevant Ebola virus and disease research freely accessible following the World Health Organization’s declaration of a Public Health Emergency…
