(18 Oct 2026) The Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asia Library Group was held at ETH Zürich on 19–20 June 2026. For early arrivals, there was an optional tour of…
In-depth analysis finds country’s success down to continuity of funding and investment in early careers, but collaborations and original scientific discoveries still proving challenging (19 Oct 2026) China’s transformation into…
(27 Oct 2026) OASE+ (Open Access for Scholarly Empowerment +), a collective negotiating body established with support from the Japanese government to advance the country’s national open access policy, and Elsevier…
European funders put weight behind emerging ‘publish, review, curate’ approach for preprints. (28 Oct 2026) Science funders and research organizations in Europe are joining forces to expand open-access publishing and…
(27 Oct 2026) Springer Nature and Google DeepMind have entered into a research partnership to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant designed to support peer reviewers in evaluating scientific manuscripts. The…
(Oct 2026) NISO has announced a 12-month pilot for a minimum viable metadata model to facilitate the tracking of provenance and attribution of content in AI systems, addressing a critical challenge…
(15 Oct 2026) New research from the University of Sydney has raised questions about the economics of scholarly publishing – finding that public investment typically accounts for more than 95% of…
(20 Oct 2026) CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, today announced the availability of CAS Connections in Microsoft Copilot. The connector gives Copilot customers access to the CAS Content…
(19 Oct 2026) Jisc and Google have announced a two-year collaboration to help UK universities and colleges move beyond AI experimentation towards wider institutional adoption, with a focus on digital…
(1 Oct 2026) Choice announces the tenth publication in a series of white papers designed to provide actionable intelligence around topics of importance to the academic library community. The paper, “The…
(6 Oct 2026) MDPI and Research Solutions have announced a collaboration to make MDPI’s open access journal content discoverable through Scite and the Scite MCP, a platform that connects scholarly content…
(5 Oct 2026) EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has released its 2027 Serials Price Projection Report, providing libraries and publishers with insights to help inform planning for the upcoming renewal cycle. EBSCO…
(29 Sep 2026) China maintains a zero-tolerance policy toward academic misconduct, with a special campaign targeting retracted papers and a crackdown on paper buying and selling launched, the Ministry of Science…
(1 Oct 2026) COAR has now published all six narratives about the value of repositories on the Reframing Repositories webpage: The untapped public value of open access repositories Safeguarding…
(9 Oct 2026) Less than 24 hours after OpenAI posted over 700 preprints describing major math results by an internal AI model, the company has withdrawn three of the manuscripts for…
