(20 Apr 2026) Digital Science has announced the launch of Compass by Dimensions, a new publication impact tracking solution designed for medical affairs teams. Compass – initially available to publication planners and medical affairs professionals in a beta – combines data from Dimensions and Altmetric into a single, self-service platform. The tool enables users to search, analyze, benchmark,…
(1 Apr 2026) Taylor & Francis has announced an expansion of its innovative diamond open access (OA) model, Collective Pathway to Open Publishing (CPOP), through its agreements with Jisc in the UK and CAUL in Australasia. Collective support has enabled six new journals to open up their 2026 volumes, ensuring researchers worldwide can publish OA without paying an…
(2 Apr 2026) The American Society for Microbiology has met the sustainability target for the 2026 subscription year under its Subscribe to Open (S20) model, ensuring that six primary research journals will continue to be published open access in 2026. Following the successful launch of the S2O model in 2025, the society has achieved the target for a second…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(30 Mar 2026) Coherent Digital today announced a new service to measure and communicate real-world impact beyond traditional citation metrics. At a time when institutions face growing pressure to demonstrate societal value to stakeholders, funders, policymakers, and the public, Coherent Impact provides a new lens on institutional influence. The platform aggregates and analyzes high-value policy…
(26 Mar 2026) Digital Science, a leading technology company serving stakeholders across the research ecosystem, is pleased to announce a new AI-powered feature for Altmetric that makes it easier to understand and communicate research impact. The new Altmetric Attention Digest streamlines the process of demonstrating research value by automatically generating concise, narrative summaries of a research output’s…
(11 Mar 2026) Sage and the Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) have announced a new open access (OA) publishing agreement intended to expand accessibility of research produced in Hong Kong. The organizations stated that the agreement is designed to increase the visibility and impact of work authored by researchers based in Hong Kong so that the research can…