(19 Apr 2026) CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society (ACS), has announced the launch of CAS Newton℠, an agentic AI system developed for scientific discovery. CAS Newton is grounded in published scientific knowledge curated by CAS scientists and draws on more than 150 years of literature contained in the CAS Content Collection™. According to the…
(8 Apr 2026) Position overview Are you an energetic person who thrives on providing quality service to library users? Do you have an understanding of acquisition and cataloguing processes in a library environment? If you do and you are well organised, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, the ability to liaise with abroad range of…
(7 Apr 2026) As transparent, reusable research data becomes increasingly central to research integrity, reproducibility and funder requirements, IOP Publishing has launched a new, free, open data training course designed to give early career researchers (ECRs) the practical skills and confidence they need to share and manage research data effectively. The course has been developed…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(25 Mar 2026) The Webometrics ranking of universities provides a valuable and more comprehensive open data alternative to traditional university rankings. However, as Vladimir M. Moskovkin shows mirror sites and an emergent market for predatory rankings threatens the project’s future. “For years, the Webometrics Ranking (CSIC) relied on Google Scholar (GS) data to measure “Openness”.…
(24 Mar 2026) MediManus provides access to digital reproductions of Greek medical manuscripts preserved in libraries worldwide, along with original scientific information about their transmission and significance in modern medicine. The platform aims to revitalize the study of ancient Greek medicine and promote renewed scientific research by making these historical texts accessible to scholars and the public. Beyond…
(16 March 2026) University rankings have become a key measure of success for India, even at the highest political levels. Yet, as in other countries ranking regimes have created distortions in research practices. Exploring the data behind India’s “ranking mania” Muthu Madhan argues rankings have failed to deliver on their promises. “When metrics are treated…