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The Biochemical Society and Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries are delighted to announce an open access agreement that supports the open sharing of research and knowledge from across the molecular biosciences.

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.

The Malaysian Association of Research Managers and Administrators (MyRMA) announces a strategic partnership with Trinka AI, a leading AI-powered writing assistant specializing in academic and technical writing. This collaboration aims to provide all the 25+ member institutions under MyRMA with exclusive access to Trinka AI’s advanced tools at preferential rates to enhance the quality and efficiency of research outputs across Malaysia.

Preprints.org, a multidisciplinary preprint platform by the leading fully open-access publisher MDPI, is strengthening its partnership with PREreview, a non-profit dedicated to promoting equity and transparency in research feedback. Thanks to a new type of integration, submitting authors can now request community feedback directly from PREreview with a single click on Preprints.org. This makes it easier to gather feedback and insights and, as a result, accelerate the route to publication.

Delta Think is currently spearheading an industry market research survey to authors and researchers across the scholarly community designed to provide insight into the impact of potential US federal funding reductions on their research. The survey addresses topics such as publication volume, their ability/allowance for peer review, conference participation and attendance, influence on their research scope and topics, and more. 

At the Microbiology Society, our vision is a world in which the science of microbiology provides maximum benefit to society. Reflecting the vast diversity of microbes, the wide array of fields of microbiology research intersect with many other disciplines across the natural and social sciences.

MDPI, the world’s largest fully open-access publisher, today announced the renewal of its national partnership agreement with Sweden’s Bibsam Consortium. Notably, 22 institutions will receive partner benefits under MDPI’s Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), including substantial discounts on article processing charges (APCs) for affiliated authors.

A new AI tool to identify irrelevant references in submitted manuscripts has been launched for use across Springer Nature’s journals and books. The tool is the latest AI-driven tool that has been developed in-house at Springer Nature to weed out problematic submissions and ensure the veracity of the publication record.

Every article published in the 2025 volume of three Taylor & Francis journals will be made open access (OA), following a successful launch of the publisher’s Subscribe to Open (S2O) pilot. Taylor & Francis has confirmed that enough institutions have renewed or confirmed the renewal of their subscriptions for each journal to reach the required S2O threshold.

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and the Society of China University Journals (CUJS) today announced a 3-year strategic partnership between the organizations to work together on topics and content related to open access, open science, scientific integrity and scientific evaluation.

IGI Global Scientific Publishing, dedicated to "Publishing Tomorrow's Research Today" since 1988, and ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, are pleased to announce the expanded coverage of IGI Global Scientific Publishing journals through Journal Home.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) is strengthening its support for open science by requiring authors publicly share the research data underpinning articles in two of its journals: Environmental Research: Food Systems (ERFS) and Environmental Research: Climate (ERCL). Papers submitted with data inaccessible will only be accepted if there is compelling legal or ethical justification. The new policy represents a pilot aimed at fostering greater access to research data, with potential expansion across other journals in IOPP’s Environmental Research series.