(5 Feb 2026) MPS North America LLC (“MPS NA LLC”), USA, a wholly owned material subsidiary of MPS Limited, today announced that it has agreed to acquire 100% stake in Unbound Medicine, Inc., a United States-based healthcare technology and medical information company, subject to the terms and conditions set out in the Stock Purchase Agreement and…
(27 Jan 2026) Over the past decade, Hindawi expanded rapidly from a small open access (OA) publisher into a large, multi-journal operation publishing tens of thousands of articles annually. This period of growth coincided with an increase in submissions later linked to paper mills. By 2023–2024, public reporting documented that more than 8,000 articles across a…
(4 Feb 2026) The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a technical professional organization and public charity, together with the IEEE Computer Society, has announced its 2026 Technology Predictions. The report presents a forecast of technology trends expected in the coming year, with a focus on the role of artificial intelligence in business operations, electric power…
(3 Feb 2026) The Australian Government has announced a new Open Science Policy designed to improve access to publicly funded health and medical research and strengthen collaboration across the research sector. The policy has been introduced by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing and jointly developed by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and…
(4 Feb 2026) Cabells has expanded its Predatory Reports database to include more than 20,000 journals. The US-based information services company reports that Predatory Reports has grown by more than 300% since its launch in 2017. Having reached 10,000 journals in 2019 and 15,000 in 2021, a recent upgrade to its underlying technology has enabled…
(29 Jan 2026) The Open Journals Collective (OJC) has announced the launch of its official investment campaign, inviting libraries to back a sustainable, community-led alternative to commercial scholarly publishing models. Positioned as a scalable response to commercial “big deals” and so-called “transformative agreements”, OJC offers libraries a single mechanism to support a broad range of diamond open-access…