(5 Jun 2026) Wolters Kluwer has announced an expanded enterprise AI collaboration with OpenAI. This marks a broader effort and growing collaboration to develop and release AI native solutions that advance Expert AI for professionals and institutions operating in regulated, high-stakes environments. “This collaboration accelerates our Expert AI vision – bringing trusted AI to the…
(10 Jun 2026) the Nature Index has introduced updates to broaden its disciplinary coverage and refine its methodology with the release of the 2026 Research Leaders tables, marking a major step in the evolution of the database since its launch in 2014. The 2026 tables (based on full year 2025 data) show that China continues to lead…
(27 May 2026) For most of the history of scholarly publishing, the definition of “end user” was stable enough that no one thought to question it. The user was a researcher, a student, a clinician, a librarian: a human being who navigated a platform, read content, and formed their own judgments. Everything downstream of that assumption,…
(4 Jun 2026) Universities UK (UUK) and Elsevier have announced a partnership aimed at strengthening the evidence base around how UK university research supports the UK Government’s eight priority sectors under its Modern Industrial Strategy. The collaboration will combine UUK’s policy expertise and knowledge of the higher education sector with Elsevier’s research analytics capabilities to…
(Jun 2026) This article explores the topics and issues that trended in academic libraries over the past two years. It draws on research and initiatives from librarians across the profession, highlighting the challenges libraries face. To focus on the most pressing current trends, topics that have been covered in previous Top Trends or Environmental Scans…