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CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has been named a winner in the 2025 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards, highlighting the company’s “exceptional advancements in AI and the value it brings to stakeholders and the broader community” through its Annual Copyright License (ACL), an enterprise-wide rights licensing solution offering companies an efficient way to license rights, including rights for the internal use of legally-procured copyrighted materials within AI systems, and to use copyrighted materials with AI systems by providing users with a harmonized set of internal use AI rights from a broad range of rightsholders.

With AI playing an increasingly vital role in academia, ProQuest, part of Clarivate, is expanding its series of responsibly developed academic AI tools, keeping library resources on pace with user expectations. The Ebook Central Research Assistant joins the Web of Science, Primo, and ProQuest Research Assistants in supporting research insights and developing critical thinking.

Global healthcare knowledge provider, BMJ Group, is expanding its open access reach by introducing new and renewed Read and Publish agreements for 2025, further reinforcing its ongoing support for enhancing global knowledge sharing. With agreements now spanning the Americas, Australia, and Europe, these partnerships enable researchers to publish their work openly, reaching a broader audience and amplifying the impact of their research.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has been named a winner in the 2025 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards, highlighting the company’s “exceptional advancements in AI and the value it brings to stakeholders and the broader community” through its Annual Copyright License (ACL), an enterprise-wide rights licensing solution offering companies an efficient way to license rights, including rights for the internal use of legally-procured copyrighted materials within AI systems, and to use copyrighted materials with AI systems by providing users with a harmonized set of internal use AI rights from a broad range of rightsholders.

With AI playing an increasingly vital role in academia, ProQuest, part of Clarivate, is expanding its series of responsibly developed academic AI tools, keeping library resources on pace with user expectations. The Ebook Central Research Assistant joins the Web of Science, Primo, and ProQuest Research Assistants in supporting research insights and developing critical thinking.

Clarivate Plc, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today released EndNote 2025, a comprehensive reference management solution that streamlines the research and writing process. Its new features include AI support, enhanced referencing tools, and journal matching capabilities, designed to save researchers time and improve accuracy.

Global healthcare knowledge provider, BMJ Group, is expanding its open access reach by introducing new and renewed Read and Publish agreements for 2025, further reinforcing its ongoing support for enhancing global knowledge sharing. With agreements now spanning the Americas, Australia, and Europe, these partnerships enable researchers to publish their work openly, reaching a broader audience and amplifying the impact of their research.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society, has joined India’s One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) initiative through a transformative new read-and-publish agreement with the ACM Open program. This agreement provides 6,500 government-funded higher education and research institutions across India with Premium Access to the ACM Digital Library, while enabling authors in participating institutions to publish an unlimited number of Open Access research articles in ACM journals, ACM conference proceedings and ICPS Proceedings with no article processing charges (APCs).

OASPA is launching a major new project for 2025, bringing together publishing organisations with those who pay for, fund and invest in scholarly communications. We’re delighted to be partnering with Research Consulting in delivering this work over the coming months.

The Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Andalucía (CBUA), representing ten major universities in Spain, has partnered with Trinka AI to provide an advanced AI-powered writing assistant to students and faculty across its institutions. ​Through this initiative, all CBUA-affiliated universities will have access to Trinka Premium under its Institution Plan, offering a range of AI-driven writing enhancements designed to support academic and technical communication in both English and Spanish.

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) introduces EBSCO Discovery: Open Education, a powerful, centralized platform designed to streamline access to open-access e-books and journals and Open Educational Resources (OER). Built to help institutions reduce textbook costs and support educational equity, this solution empowers libraries and faculty to easily incorporate high-quality, freely licensed materials into courses while sustainably managing expenses and workflows.

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Tsinghua University Press (TUP), the leading university press in China, has announced an expansion of its Journal Home partnership, which was the first of its kind with a Chinese publisher last year. This expansion more than doubles TUP’s coverage, now including 11 open access titles. 

In line with the Government of India’s groundbreaking One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) initiative, Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers and a trusted leader in research and learning, has signed a 3-year license agreement. Under this agreement, Wiley has enabled access to nearly 2,000 journals, supporting approximately 18 million students, researchers, and faculty across 6,300+ government higher education institutions and research centers nationwide.

IOP Publishing and Fudan University are organising a one-day international workshop, AI-driven discoveries: Machine Learning for the Physical Sciences. The event brings together leading researchers from around the world to explore how machine learning and AI are transforming the physical sciences.  

Clarivate Plc, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today released The top 50 universities powering global innovation report which analyzes the critical role of research in shaping global industrial innovation and societal impact, using data and expert insights derived from academic research and patent citations.