(24 Jun 2026) CAUL has released its inaugural Annual Impact Report, highlighting how member libraries are collaborating across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand to advance open scholarship and research infrastructure. The report outlines key work on open access and open science (including policy advocacy, sector‑wide agreements, and shared infrastructure), as well as projects to strengthen…
(Jun 2026) Scholarly communication is at a crossroads. The pressures bearing down on the global knowledge commons are converging at once. Scholarly infrastructure has become dangerously concentrated in the hands of a small number of commercial publishers and foreign-controlled platforms, leaving institutions and nations exposed to disruptions they cannot control. At the same time, the integrity…
(23 Jun 2026) Springer Nature today announced that it is divesting its consumer media businesses – Scientific American in the United States and Spektrum der Wissenschaft in Germany. The strategic transaction will see Springer Nature focus on its core global publishing business in research, health and education while supporting the long-term development of these brands. …
(23 Jun 2026) A coalition of leaders from across the world’s libraries, publishers, and research-information community today launched the TrustMarc Initiative, an open, standards-driven framework that makes the trust behind digital content visible, verifiable, and portable — so anyone evaluating content — whether people or AI systems — can see who stands behind it, and why.…