(26 Mar 2026) Malaysia recently launched the Higher Education Blueprint 2026 – 2035 under the Ministry of Higher Education. The new Malaysia Higher Education Blueprint shows a strong signal of…
(7 Apr 2026) Got sore, itchy eyes? You’re probably one of the millions of people who spend too much time staring at screens, being bombarded with blue light. Rub your eyes…
The brief launch of an app promising to attend students’ lectures as well as write their assignments caused some academics to despair at a dystopian near-future in which learning becomes…
(9 Apr 2026) Today, we published an issue brief on the topic of the evolving relationship between research libraries and academic publishers. With this research, we wanted to better understand which qualities and…
(1 Apr 2026) “…for a long time, the predominant publishing model has not aligned with what scientists want and need from dissemination of their work. As early as 1991,…
(1 Apr 2026) China’s science and technology awards system has been accused of being riddled with loopholes and misconduct, including serious exaggeration of achievements, cultivation of personal connections and even bribery, according…
(6 Apr 2026) On January 6, 2026, freelance journalist Alex Preston published his review of the Jean-Baptiste Andrea book Watching Over Her. Though the review was overall positive, it became the source…
(30 Mar 2026) Last week, Wikipedia announced a new policy regarding the usage of large language models (LLMs) when working on Wikipedia articles. The policy itself is straightforward: volunteers cannot use LLMs…
(1 Apr 2026) Taylor & Francis has announced an expansion of its innovative diamond open access (OA) model, Collective Pathway to Open Publishing (CPOP), through its agreements with Jisc in the UK and…
(2 Apr 2026) The American Society for Microbiology has met the sustainability target for the 2026 subscription year under its Subscribe to Open (S20) model, ensuring that six primary research journals will continue to be…
(19 Apr 2026) CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), has announced the launch of CAS Newton℠, an agentic AI system developed for scientific discovery. CAS Newton is grounded in published…
(8 Apr 2026) Position overview Are you an energetic person who thrives on providing quality service to library users? Do you have an understanding of acquisition and cataloguing processes in…
(7 Apr 2026) As transparent, reusable research data becomes increasingly central to research integrity, reproducibility and funder requirements, IOP Publishing has launched a new, free, open data training course designed to…
(1 Apr 2026) Gale, part of global edtech company Cengage, today announced the launch of Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III (ECCO III), the latest installment of its acclaimed ECCO series. The third collection adds 1.7 million never-before-digitized pages to the current 32-million-page archive, expanding…
(25 Mar 2026) A major artificial-intelligence conference has rejected 497 papers — roughly 2% of submissions — whose authors violated AI-use policies in their peer reviews of other articles submitted to…
