April 2026 – Access

Gale launches Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III

PublishersApril 7, 2026

(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 eighteenth-century studies for researchers across disciplines to explore global perspectives across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia. ECCO III builds on the previous installments, adding greater depth by ensuring broad coverage of works from this…

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Major conference on machine learning catches illicit AI use – and rejects hundreds of papers

AIApril 7, 2026

(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 the meeting. The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), to be held in Seoul in July, has a reciprocal review policy, meaning that, bar…

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BSI standards join ASTM platform

PublishersApril 7, 2026

(27 Mar 2026) The British Standards Institution (BSI) and ASTM International have partnered to offer BSI standards on ASTM Compass. BSI standards are among Europe’s most well-known and widely adopted standards and are now live on ASTM’s proprietary standards database. ASTM Compass access to BSI standards empowers technical teams to reduce error and speed up design…

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Cancer Research UK to stop funding open access publishing

Open AccessApril 7, 2026

(1 Apr 2026) Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has announced it will cease funding open access (OA) publishing costs, arguing that the current model is failing to deliver a fair and efficient system for disseminating research. The world’s largest independent cancer research charity said the decision will save £5.2 million over the next three years and…

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