(7 Jul 2026) The Intellectual Freedom Committee of ALA today announced the release of “Content Controls and Access Guidelines for Vendors,” a new guiding document designed to help library staff make informed, principled decisions when selecting third‑party digital content providers. Adopted on May 5, 2026, the guidelines equip library workers with essential tools to safeguard…
(7 Jul 2026) SPIE announces their acquisition of The Lens, the global open-knowledge platform. With this acquisition, SPIE will expand its offerings to the global research community through improved access to patent data. The open web format of The Lens curates a free flow of information, including scholarly works and patents, to foster deeper research,…
(9 Jul 2026) The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has launched public access to more than 1.2 million newly available records of historic U.S. Government publications, making it easier than ever to find documents published between 1895 and 1976. The records are now live in the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) and are available to…
(26 Jun 2026) The CHORUS Forum: Future of Preprints hosted on 4 June 2026 and moderated by Katie Corker, Executive Director, ASAPbio convened stakeholders from scholarly communications, publishing, and research infrastructure communities to examine the evolving role of preprints in the research ecosystem. A panel discussion focused on growth of subject-specific preprint repositories, opportunities for greater…
(27 Jun 2026) Zotero is a widely used reference manager that stores your PDFs, annotations, and notes on papers, and senior academics often have libraries containing thousands of PDFs. In this tutorial, we’re going to connect Claude code with the Zotero library so that you can search literature, extract annotations, move your papers, and do…
(24 Jun 2026) The 2nd STM APAC Conference, jointly hosted by STM and CNPIEC in Beijing on 16 June, focused on openness, integrity, and inclusion across the research lifecycle. This summary covers keynotes and panels on research and publishing, the shift from subscription to open access, and trusted research and social responsibility in the Asia-Pacific region.…
(29 Jun 2026) Newspaper publishers across the country are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly scraping their websites to train their flagship artificial intelligence models. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday, alleges that by using unlicensed and paywalled content to train versions of ChatGPT,…
(6 Jul 2026) Digital Science today announced its forthcoming Dimensions Research Strategy, an AI analytics platform built to reason through complex strategic questions the way a skilled research domain expert would – on demand, at scale, with full provenance on every finding. The platform, underpinned by Dimensions data, is being actively developed in partnership with research-intensive institutions,…
(30 Jun 2026) The Korea Times on Tuesday launched K-universities, a new global platform designed to showcase the international competitiveness and strengths of Korean higher education. The platform offers a wide range of information for overseas readers, from prospective international students and their parents, to overseas university officials and education policymakers. The platform features…
(3 Jul 2026) China’s main research funding agency will increase its number of prestigious grants for early-career scientists by 50%. The move is part of the country’s promise to step up support for young scientists, who face intense competition to secure funding and jobs. Early-career researchers have welcomed the news, but some academics say it won’t…