UK issues guidance to counter foreign interference risks in higher education
Advice urges universities to recognise, prevent and report covert foreign interference while protecting academic freedom and collaboration
Industry trends
Scholarly publishing’s great leap
Darrell Gunter explains why the industry must embrace compute-ready documents to survive the AI era
Jisc’s new licensing approach to support open research infrastructure
Institutions helped to adopt more cost-effective, collaborative and strategically aligned alternatives
Open Journals Collective launches to give libraries ‘exit ramp’ from big deals
Libraries invited to back a "sustainable, community-led alternative to commercial scholarly publishing models"
Digital Science and Silverchair partner to bring researcher screening into workflows
Supporting the integrity of the scholarly record is vital for upholding trust and transparency in research, say partners
AIP Publishing signs three-year agreement with Irish Research eLibrary
Agreement covers eight participating Irish institutions and expands access to AIP Publishing’s portfolio
Researcher to Reader 2026: structure, debate, and community
Themes include research integrity, open science infrastructure, peer review reform, business models
From anxiety to advantage
Tamir Borensztajn reframes artificial intelligence as the "connective tissue of academic knowledge"
Building a more sustainable publishing future together
Liz Martin explains some of the strategies that led to a 36 per cent reduction in carbon emissions at IOP Publishing
Why scholarly publishing needs a neutral governance body for the AI age
Darrell Gunter says mechanisms that governed trust, correction, and authority in the print and early digital eras are no longer sufficient
IOP Publishing cuts carbon emissions by more than a third
Publisher says the most significant opportunities lie in purchased goods and services, business travel, and employee commuting
After the PDF: A new unit of knowledge for the AI era
Steve Smith argues that the "Knowledge Object" should be considered the atomic unit of the scholarly record