Adopting a united front against paper mills
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe introduces United2Act Against Paper Mills, an international group working to maintain research integrity
Research integrity
Cabells publishes report on journal decision-making data
White paper explores what altmetrics and citations sentiment data mean in terms of academic and societal impact
ARL and CNI report maps AI-driven future for research libraries
Report aimed at supporting library leaders as they assess how AI advances in are reshaping the research landscape
“Crocodile” initiative keeps snapping up new sponsors
Project will now incorporate dedicated surveys of both publishers and librarians around "zero-click search"
CERN to host next phase of Open Research Europe platform
Eligibility will expand to include researchers affiliated with institutions in participating consortium countries
Clarivate report underlines need for structured data in research intelligence
Paper warns that poorly structured or inconsistent data can undermine benchmarking, evaluation and policy decisions
AI “delivers efficiency gains and reshapes academic library workflows”
Clarivate study examines how AI is transforming key library processes while delivering operational benefits
Elsevier expands Check Integrity tool across 2,000 journals
Tool designed to find breaches of ethics policies, such as unauthorised authorship changes and editorial conflicts of interest
The outputs we don’t count: making talk-based research contributions legible
In-person research presentations are first-class and widely valued – but routinely under-documented, writes Ben Kaube
Digifest 2026: from disruption to direction
Lawrie Phipps, Director of External Policy Development at Jisc, reports from the annual event held at Birmingham's ICC
Springer Nature expands use of AI across publishing workflows
Publisher expects the use of tools to grow by further 25% in 2026 as it continues embedding AI through workflows
DataSeer develops AI system to track dataset reuse
Tool has ability to "systematically track data reuse giving a new lens on openness, research integrity, and downstream impact"