(11 Mar 2026) “The question of R&P agreements asks whether the ends justify the means. On one hand, R&P agreements and the APC model upon which they are based have significantly increased the overall market share of OA publications over the past 10 years, now up to around 50% of all journal articles published annually (although that trajectory has plateaued over…
(4 Mar 2026) Research integrity in Australia may be at risk, the Australian Research Council and the National Health and Medical Research Council have warned. The ARC and the NHMRC announced a joint national review of the research integrity system on 23 February, saying there is a “lack of consistent, sector-wide data on research integrity…
(2 Mar 2026) SSP’s polling initiative, Pulse Check, is a series of short, focused polls designed to track trends and challenges in real time. The second poll in the series, “Economic Outlook for Scholarly Communications in 2026,” set out to understand how professionals across the scholarly communications ecosystem are assessing the industry’s economic resilience in the…
(11 Mar 2026) DataSeer, in collaboration with The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF), has developed a new large language model (LLM)-based system designed to detect and quantify dataset reuse across the scholarly literature at scale. The system aims to address a longstanding challenge for research funders and institutions: measuring the downstream impact of shared research…
(11 Mar 2026) Fans of tabletop games can now get their hands on a limited-edition card game created by the National Library Board (NLB). The giveaway aims to raise awareness of the NLB mobile app, which allows users to borrow e-books, reserve titles and access digital resources – while encouraging people to reconnect with…