Norway’s Sikt renews national partnership with MDPI
36 institutions will receive discounts on Article Processing Charges across portfolio of more than 460 journals
Publishing models
Preprints.org and PREreview deepen collaboration
Submitting authors can now request community feedback directly from PREreview with a single click on Preprints.org
Swedish consortium renews partnership with MDPI
Twenty-two institutions will receive partner benefits including discounts on article processing charges
The forgotten stakeholder – the reader
Ashutosh Ghildiyal explains why the reader must come first in scholarly publishing
PLOS announces China partnership
Parties will work on topics and content related to open access, open science, scientific integrity and scientific evaluation
IOPP announces new research data sharing policy
Initiative will require authors to publicly share the research data underpinning articles
Zendy announces revenue-sharing model for academic publishers
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) model "ensures publishers are compensated when paywalled research is cited by AI"
ResearchGate and IntechOpen announce partnership
Agreement covers IntechOpen's open access journals in the fields of technology and environmental sciences
Exploring the impact of Pledge to Open
Taylor & Francis reports on progress in its collaborative funding initiative for open access books
Breaking down silos and beating donkeys with carrots
Hannah Baldwin offers her insights from this year's Researcher to Reader conference held in London
MathSciNet’s 2026 tiered pricing update
American Mathematical Society to introduce a more transparent, equitable model for U.S. consortia in 2026
Portico to preserve Clarivate’s Ebook Central
Agreement ensures long-term preservation of academic collection and will mean new books are added in the future