MDPI Books launches early career researchers award
Competition open to early carer researchers within six years of their first academic appointment or completion of PhD
Publishing models
Cambridge and Max Planck announce OA book agreement
First agreement of its kind for university press combines evidence-based acquisition with open access funding
Solving the equity gap in open access with Bloomsbury Open Collections
Ros Pyne, Bloomsbury's Director of Open Access and Innovation, shares how the new Open Collections model is providing an alternative route to open access…
Ball State partners with Cambridge University Press for open access
Ball State University Libraries has partnered with Cambridge University Press to expand open access publishing opportunities for faculty, staff, and graduate students
Cactus Communications and CSIRO Publishing partner for author editorial support
Cactus Communications is partnering with CSIRO Publishing to support the Australian science publisher’s authors with enhanced access to professional language and writing support services
MDPI joins COUNTER Registry in open access research transparency boost
MDPI, has been included in the COUNTER Registry, a move designed to provide libraries and institutions with standardised usage statistics to better measure the…
RSC partners with Enago for AI-powered manuscript screening
The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has partnered with publishing solutions company Enago to deploy bespoke artificial intelligence (AI) technology for screening incoming journal…
“Merit and relevance of research should be determined by visibility and impact”
Akhilesh Ayer – Cactus Communications CEO – reflects on pressing issues for the industry, the global south, and his hopes for the future
Springer Nature India partnership “to strengthen research integrity”
Academic engagement programme designed to equip academia, researchers, and scholars with globally benchmarked tools
JSTOR launches new books distribution model
Publisher Collections designed to "encourage equitable, broad access to scholarship" and meet needs of libraries and presses
Scholarly Communication at a Turning Point – Time to Build What’s Next. The APE Conference returns to Berlin in January 2026 for its 21st…
Royal Society sets out plan for full open access in 2026
Libraries subscribed to Royal Society journals will now be asked to support Subscribe to Open in 2026 through their subscriptions