More than 40 organisations join Publish, Review, Curate Alliance
Alliance aims to promote a more open and transparent approach to scholarly communication
Publishing models
JMIRx joins PRC Alliance as founding member
Model 'separates the processes of publishing, reviewing and curating research'
Charlesworth and IntechOpen announce partnership
Charlesworth to boost IntechOpen’s reach in China through sales and WeChat marketing
Elsevier and OASE+ agree new open access deal for Japan
Three-year agreement will enable uncapped open access publishing in eligible Elsevier and Cell Press hybrid journals
From campaigns to community
PARTNER CASE STUDY: How CSIRO Publishing is building researcher engagement in China
Taylor & Francis signs three-year OA agreement with Italian universities
Read-and-publish deal with CRUI covers 31 institutions and more than 2,100 hybrid journals
Bioscientifica partners with GetFTR to improve access to biomedical research
Full-text content will be available through Scopus, Scite, Web of Science and CABI Digital Library
Study highlights public investment behind academic publishers’ profits
Public investment "typically accounts for more than 95% of the cost of producing a research article"
Frontiers and SANLiC agree national OA publishing deal in South Africa
Costs will be covered by participating institutions, with invoicing and payments managed centrally through SANLiC
“A more optimistic outlook for scholarly communication”
Cooperation and trust were key themes at the STM Frankfurt Conference 2026, writes Mithu Lucraft
Using AI to take the guesswork out of journal selection
Researchers face increasingly complex landscape finding the right publication, writes Simon Linacre
STM and Ithaka S+R launch study into AI agents’ access
“The Endpoint Question” will examine how scholarly content should meet AI agents at the point of access