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Hum today announced that Dustin Smith, the company’s co‑founder, has been appointed CEO. Dustin succeeds Tim Barton, who led Hum through its early scaling phase. Barton is retiring from day‑to‑day operations and will continue to support Hum as an advisor. 

STM joins a global coalition of authors and rightsholders to express disappointment in the lack of ambition shown in the European Commission’s AI Act implementation package — including the Code of Practice, the Guidelines, and the Transparency Template. These instruments risk setting the wrong direction toward an implementation of the AI Act that is not meaningful.

With Reaxys AI Search, chemists and R&D teams can explore over 121 million chemistry documents, patents and peer-reviewed journal articles, unlocking more relevant insights faster and accelerating discovery.

STM joins a global coalition of authors and rightsholders to express disappointment in the lack of ambition shown in the European Commission’s AI Act implementation package — including the Code of Practice, the Guidelines, and the Transparency Template. These instruments risk setting the wrong direction toward an implementation of the AI Act that is not meaningful.

With Reaxys AI Search, chemists and R&D teams can explore over 121 million chemistry documents, patents and peer-reviewed journal articles, unlocking more relevant insights faster and accelerating discovery.

Digital Science is pleased to announce that Emerald Publishing has adopted Dimensions Author Check as part of Emerald’s ongoing commitment to research integrity. Dimensions Author Check offers publishers a fast and reliable way to incorporate research integrity checks into their work, helping to support responsible and ethical publishing.

The Royal Society has agreed plans that would make its journals fully open access in 2026 by adopting the ‘Subscribe to Open’ model. Under plans agreed in July 2025, libraries subscribed to Royal Society journals will now be asked to support Subscribe to Open in 2026 through their subscriptions. If sufficient libraries continue their subscriptions, the journals will be converted to open access for the year.

The Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) and IOP Publishing (IOPP) will convertMetrologia, the international journal dealing with the science of measurement and its applications to a fully open access (OA) publishing model.

Springer Nature has released its fourth annual Open Access (OA) report providing a transparent, data-led[1], overview of progress made in OA publishing and access. Marking ten years since signing its first, pioneering transformative agreement (TAs), the report highlights how the company’s responsible approach continues to increase visibility and impact for its authors, while calling for greater industry collaboration to support a more inclusive and sustainable OA transition.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) are strengthening their long-standing partnership through a new agreement that will see the transfer of the journal Medical Engineering and Physics (MEP) to IOPP’s platform alongside the launch of Medical Sensors and Imaging (MSI), a new gold open access (OA) journal on behalf of IPEM.

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing technology for humanity, announced today that its journals once again excelled in the journal citation rankings according to the latest Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR) from Clarivate Analytics and CiteScore™ metrics by Scopus, both released in June 2025.

The Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) has signed its first consortium agreement in North America, marking a significant milestone for the fully Open Access publisher. The agreement is with the Federal Science Libraries Network (FSLN) and will last for two years. Five Canadian federal agencies will gain access to MDPI’s Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), including significant discounts on article processing charges for affiliated scholars across its portfolio of 475 journals.

As part of its ongoing commitment to scientific transparency and responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced plans to implement a new policy that will cap how much publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their research findings publicly accessible. This initiative reflects a broader effort to restore public trust in public health by promoting open, honest, and transparent scientific communication.

The Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) has signed its first consortium agreement in North America, marking a significant milestone for the fully Open Access publisher. The agreement is with the Federal Science Libraries Network (FSLN) and will last for two years. Five Canadian federal agencies will gain access to MDPI’s Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), including significant discounts on article processing charges for affiliated scholars across its portfolio of 475 journals.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) and the University of California (UC) today announced a new transformative open access agreement that will accelerate publishing and expand access to high-quality research in physics and related disciplines. The three-year agreement will make it easier and more affordable for UC researchers to publish open access articles in all of IOPP’s owned journals and most of its partner journals, a total of 77 titles, and will advance the university’s efforts to empower more of its authors to share their research freely with the world.