Frontiers renews deal with Norway consortium
Thirty-eight Norwegian institutions and research centres will benefit from a simplified publishing model
Publishing news
Chinese Academy of Sciences “to stop funding for expensive OA journals”
Move "likely aimed at controlling spiralling costs and potentially strengthening domestic Chinese journals"
Researcher to Reader conference under new ownership
New director Tiberius Ignat "to take event to the next level with one aim – to improve the quality of research"
Small publishers face threat from scale, not open access
Report finds structural inequities rather than OA itself challenge small European academic publishers
Elsevier and Jisc sign read and publish agreement for UK institutions
Agreement "a step towards meeting the evolving needs of institutions and strengthening the UK's open research landscape"
ResearchGate and University of California Press expand partnership
Thirty UC Press journals will now benefit from Journal Home’s visibility and engagement tools
BioOne reaches sustainability threshold for 2026 Subscribe to Open pilot
71 titles within the BioOne Complete aggregation will be published open access, immediately and in perpetuity
Wiley expands Advanced Portfolio into life sciences
Eight new journals scheduled to launch by the end of 2026 and additional titles planned in subsequent years
Royal Society confirms full open access for subscription journals under S2O
Article publishing charges (APCs) for researchers publishing in the S2O journals will also be removed
IGI Global and Columbia University sign OA deal
Columbia authors receive APC discounts under open access agreement spanning nearly 200 IGI journals
Wiley and ISA strike co-publishing deal
Partnership aims to expand global access to automation society’s technical publishing programme
Emerald and Purdue University launch impact series
Co-branded books aim to showcase Purdue research driving real-world change beyond traditional citation metrics