Gaëlle Béquet: Building the infrastructure nobody sees
The Director of ISSN International Centre on the largely invisible systems that keep scholarly communication working
Research impact
Japanese research outputs integrated into OpenAlex database
NII integrates nearly four million Japanese research outputs from IRDB into OpenAlex to boost global discoverability and support open access policy.
The hidden cost of peer review: a system under strain
As scholarly communication evolves, so must the structures that sustain it, writes Gali Halevi
Jisc expands university research commercialisation with Digital Science
Jisc partners with Digital Science to provide UK universities with access to Dimensions Industry Partnerships, expanding support for research commercialisation
Building trust into the future of scholarly publishing
Shilpi Mehra discusses how technology can make the research ecosystem more trustworthy
Taylor & Francis launches Plain Language Reviews
Product aimed at non-specialist audiences including caregivers, healthcare professionals and policymakers
Digital Science launches Altmetric MCP
Launch intended to help organisations move beyond traditional citation-based measures of research impact
Springer Nature content integrated into OpenEvidence under new agreement
Peer-reviewed scientific and medical content available through the AI-powered clinical decision support platform
Qassim University signs open access agreement with Taylor & Francis
Deal covers hybrid and open access journals across Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Dove Medical Press portfolios
Japan officially joins Horizon Europe as associated country
Researchers and organisations get full access to participate in the European Union's flagship programme
Springer Nature reports continued growth in TAs and OA publishing
Publisher signed 19 new transformative agreements and renewed 17 more during the year, bringing total to 101 agreements
Biochemical Society’s Portland Press joins CHORUS
Deal will "make publishing workflows more efficient while maintaining the high standards of quality and integrity"