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Jisc and the publications division of the American Chemical Society (ACS) announce the renewal of their agreement supporting scientific researchers in the UK. The agreement will continue to provide participating institutions full reading access to ACS journals and seamless open access publishing services throughout 2025 and 2026.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) is making it easier for researchers to access and share their work across the web with the free Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) browser extension. This tool enables authors who publish with IOPP to gain greater visibility and discoverability of their work, while readers enjoy a streamlined path to trusted research.

Springer Nature and the Higher Education Electronic Resources Consortium (KONSEPt) the Malaysian consortium for higher education and research institutions, have today announced the first national Transformative Agreement (TA) in Malaysia and among Southeast Asia countries. This landmark agreement demonstrates the increasing momentum across economies of all sizes for open access (OA) publishing, and the increasing global move to open science and research.

Prenax has acquired the subscription management operations of Couranto, based in Florida, US. This deal establishes Prenax as the sole corporate specialist in the U.S. market, while reinforcing its unique position as the only global corporate specialist.

Hum today announced that the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), one of the largest life science societies, has selected Hum's Alchemist Taxonomy platform to enhance content organization, discovery, and audience engagement across ASM’s 16 scientific journals.

Effective June 1, 2025, SPARC will officially transition from operating as a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund to an independent nonprofit organization. We have successfully incorporated SPARC as a charitable nonprofit organization in Washington, DC., and have filed for our 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.

Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced a multi-year partnership with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), a consortium of libraries and research institutions in Canada. The agreement provides 55 Canadian universities with expanded access to the Web of Science and is designed to enhance inter-member research collaborations, improving accessibility to Web of Science content for all members.

Impelsys, a global leader in technology solutions, is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with AlgoShack, a company that offers algoQA—a unified platform for end-to-end test automation. The collaboration is set to transform software testing through cutting-edge, AI-powered test automation solutions, marking a shift toward intelligent automation and sustained excellence in quality assurance (QA).

Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced the renewal of its multi-year partnership with CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior), significantly expanding access to trusted Academia & Government and Life Sciences & Healthcare data across over 400 Brazilian institutions.

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and OAE Publishing, a multidisciplinary open-access publisher, today announced a new Journal Home partnership that will further OAE Publishing’s mission to build a more open and transparent publishing ecology.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) partners with ChronosHub to provide a centralized portal in which researchers will manage their publishing activities with IEEE, simplifying the publishing journey through a user-first experience while also optimizing operations.

Charlesworth, an Enago company, a leading provider of STM publishing solutions, has released a new white paper, Author Marketing in China 2025: Trends and Insights. This report offers fresh insights into how Chinese researchers, especially Early Career Researchers (ECRs), approach academic publishing. It aims to help scholarly publishers tailor their author engagement strategies to the specific behaviours and expectations of the Chinese research community.