(1 Oct 2026) Choice announces the tenth publication in a series of white papers designed to provide actionable intelligence around topics of importance to the academic library community. The paper, “The Optimized Library: Prescriptive Foundations for Resource Stewardship in an Era of Fiscal Austerity,” will show academic libraries how to navigate fiscal threats by bridging library…
(6 Oct 2026) MDPI and Research Solutions have announced a collaboration to make MDPI’s open access journal content discoverable through Scite and the Scite MCP, a platform that connects scholarly content with AI-powered research tools. Under the agreement, MDPI’s journal portfolio has been indexed in Scite, enabling researchers to access and discover content through AI…
(5 Oct 2026) EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has released its 2027 Serials Price Projection Report, providing libraries and publishers with insights to help inform planning for the upcoming renewal cycle. EBSCO estimates that overall effective publisher price increases for serials in 2027 will be in the range of four to six percent before currency impact. …
(29 Sep 2026) China maintains a zero-tolerance policy toward academic misconduct, with a special campaign targeting retracted papers and a crackdown on paper buying and selling launched, the Ministry of Science and Technology said on Tuesday. Qiu Yong, vice-minister of the ministry, said the ministry has led a special campaign on retracted papers involving academic…
(1 Oct 2026) COAR has now published all six narratives about the value of repositories on the Reframing Repositories webpage: The untapped public value of open access repositories Safeguarding digital sovereignty through local stewardship and preservation Repositories unlock the potential of multilingual scholarship The role of repositories in maintaining research integrity Repositories as active…
(9 Oct 2026) Less than 24 hours after OpenAI posted over 700 preprints describing major math results by an internal AI model, the company has withdrawn three of the manuscripts for errors. On Oct. 6, OpenAI published 722 preprints in a GitHub repository about purported progress in solving 372 math problems in geometry, computer science,…
(5 Oct 2026) The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched the NSF Open Knowledge Network (NSF OKN), a national open-data infrastructure designed to connect knowledge graphs and make data more accessible, interoperable, and machine-readable for research, government, and other applications. The network is publicly available at okn.us and currently links 43 knowledge graphs containing…
(13 Oct 2026) The Sri Lanka Library Association (SLLA), in collaboration with the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka (NSF), invites researchers, academics, library professionals, and information specialists to share their research and innovative ideas at the *National Conference on Library and Information Science – 2026 (NACLIS 2026).* Abstract Submission Deadline: 25 October 2026…
(29 Sep 2026) Given the ongoing conversations regarding AI and its usage, there’s still a lot of uncertainty about what’s really happening; how employees and leadership feel about AI, the overall level of adoption of these technologies within organizations, and how it’s changing over time. In response to this need for clarity and information, BookNet…
(1 Oct 2026) South Korea has picked the first universities to benefit from President Lee Jae Myung’s flagship pledge to build “10 Seoul National Universities” outside the capital – but in a considerably scaled-down form that has drawn sharp criticism from the six flagship universities left out. On 1 September, the Ministry of Education…