(29 Sep 2026) In September 2026, the National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NSL, CAS) and the Public Library of Science (PLOS) formally signed a Memorandum of Understanding on jointly…
(29 Sep 2026) XSci has launched a new preprint platform combining AI review with paid expert peer review, alongside a competition offering researchers $500 for papers that receive expert certification. …
(25 Sep 2026) The CDNLAO Newsletter is published to share information from national libraries in the Asia and Oceania region. This newsletter is edited and distributed by the National Diet Library of Japan…
(17 Sep 2026) The National Library of Korea is releasing 38.33 million AI learning datasets, processed from the library’s national document collection, to the public for the first time. …
(29 Sep 2026) Library and influencer: two words you’d probably never expect to see together. But today’s libraries and librarians are turning to social media to connect with their community in…
(21 Sep 2026) The National Library of Malaysia (PNM) could establish a ‘Repositori Digital Cerita Malaysia’ (Digital Repository of Malaysian Stories) as a national digital archive to ensure that stories shaping…
(22 Sep 2026) A series of photos and videos of a giant ‘library’ in Ho Chi Minh City have gone viral on social media in recent days, drawing crowds of visitors…
(14 Sep 2026) The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has released a new issue paper, Large Scale Digitization in the AI Era: Issues and Model Terms for Libraries and Their Partners,…
(22 Sep 2026) Hundreds of academic journals that launched as free to publish in and free to read have ended up switching to a fee-charging model, according to a study that…
(21 Sep 2026) The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Korea Institute of Science & Technology Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP) announced on September 20 that they had prepared the “National…
(28 Sep 2026) The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched Linked Discoveries, an experimental tool designed to help researchers better understand how individual scientific findings connect to the broader body…
(16 Sep 2026) CABI has published its first artificial intelligence‑ready datasets on Hugging Face, a global platform for sharing machine learning models, datasets, and AI resources. The datasets were developed…
(16 Sep 2026) PREreview was launched in 2017 as a resource for the collaborative review of preprints. Its mission today is “to bring greater openness and equity to research peer…
(18 Sep 2026) Peer Review Week (PRW) 2026 will take place from 14–18 September 2026, bringing together the global scholarly community around this year’s theme: “Peer Review Capacity: Volume, Speed,…
(26 Sep 2026) The University of Oxford has allowed the company behind ChatGPT to train its AI models on historical texts from its Bodleian Library, as tech companies scour academic institutions…
