Editorial
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From Papers to People: making communication central to academic evaluation
Ashutosh Ghildiyal, Vice President of Growth & Strategy at Integra, is advocating for science communicating as a solution to the current research integrity crisis. We must change the question from “What did you publish?” to “Who did you reach, and what did they understand?”
UKSG news
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Insights – University journals: a semi-systematic literature review of trends, challenges and future research directions
Despite their significance, UJs remain underexplored in the existing literature, particularly in terms of their sustainability, visibility and impact within the evolving academic publishing landscape. This study employs a semi-systematic review of 105 publications to investigate the principal trends, challenges and opportunities associated with UJs. A semi-systematic approach was adopted to integrate theoretical, empirical and…
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Elaine Sykes – a tribute from UKSG
The sudden loss of Elaine Sykes has left a deep ache in the hearts of all who knew her — a mother, wife, colleague, and friend whose life radiated wit, warmth, and unwavering principle. At just 40, Elaine’s impact was already extraordinary. She was, in the words of many, “a force of nature” — someone…
Forthcoming Events
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UKSG forthcoming events
Introducing the new UKSG Uncovered event plus Understanding Resource Discovery, Usage metrics for OA, AI and more and the free in-person Forum in December.
Industry news
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IReL reaches milestone of 10,000 OA publications
IReL has reached a major milestone in its commitment to open research and publishing transparency in enabling over 10,000 Irish research articles to be published open access, and in contributing publishing data on them to OpenAPC.
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Springer Nature reports strong growth in the first half of 2025 and raises full-year guidance
Research, the company’s largest segment, reported revenue of €731 million. The segment contributed most significantly to operating performance, with underlying1 revenue growth of 7%. This was driven by the Journals portfolio and the continued momentum in open access (OA) globally. The number of published articles rose by approximately 10% across the whole portfolio and around…
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RELX 2025 first half results
“RELX delivered strong revenue and profit growth in the first half of 2025, in line with full year 2024 but with a higher quality growth profile: Risk with continued strong growth, Scientific, Technical & Medical with continued good growth and developing momentum, Legal with a further step up in growth, and Exhibitions now established at…
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Royal Society sets out plan to move journals to full OA in 2026 through Subscribe to Open
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.
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Pfizer signs multi-year agreement with Kudos to optimize discoverability of medical publications
Kudos will help Pfizer increase the reach and engagement of its clinical research by showcasing summaries and related content on a centralized platform.
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MDPI hires 2K more staff in first half of 2025
MDPI now has 8,000 staff, and “already half way through 2025, we’ve welcomed nearly 2,000 new colleagues”
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Generative AI and the NISO Open Discovery Initiative
NISO has released the publication of “Generative Artificial Intelligence and the NISO Open Discovery Initiative,” a report on the 2024 AI in web-scale library discovery services survey undertaken by the NISO Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) Standing Committee.
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CCC announces strategic collaboration agreement with the Training Centre in Communication (TCC – Africa)
CCC has announced a strategic collaboration agreement with TCC – Africa to support the identification of organization affiliations to help improve the tracking of research output from African institutions.
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Bloomsbury partners with Digital Science to monitor online impact of Bloomsbury Collections through Altmetric Explorer
Altmetric Explorer tracks social attention by detecting links and citations to research in non-traditional literature, such as patent documents, policy papers, social media, news or blog sites. Additionally, it tracks sharing and discussion on social media; all global attention is then aggregated in a large searchable database which can be used to track the attention,…
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Blinded versus unblinded review: a field study on the equity of peer-review processes
Study of effects of anonymity on fairness in peer review evaluations yields mixed results.
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Australian and New Zealand universities join forces to negotiate landmark open access deals
Universities across Australia and New Zealand are teaming up to strike a better deal on open access research publishing, in a bold new approach to negotiations with the world’s largest academic publishers.
Resources
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4 new filmed performances from Shakespeare’s Globe are now available on Drama Online
Introducing 4 filmed performances from the two theatres of the historic Shakespeare’s Globe, including an epic bilingual (BSL and English) production of Antony & Cleopatra and an exploration of modern tyranny in Richard III, as well as intimate stagings of The Merchant of Venice and Othello in the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
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Jisc’s New Guides to support compliance with the UKRI Open Access Policy
These four guides—two tailored for publishers and two for libraries—cover both journal articles and long-form publications such as monographs and book chapters.
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Cabells launches beta of CompassAI – “high-powered journal matching tool” for authors
With CompassAI, Cabells has taken the latest AI technology and overlaid it onto its highly regarded Journalytics and Predatory Reports databases.
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Emerald Publishing launches new Emerald Insight platform
Emerald Insight serves as the primary gateway to over 400 journals, 7,000 books, 3,000 case studies, and an ever-growing collection of open access content available to a global audience.
People
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Josh Sendall appointed Acting University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds
Josh Sendall, Trustee at UKSG, becomes Acting University Librarian and Keeper of the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds, succeeding Masud Khokhar following his appointment as Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) in June.
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eNews 592 – People
Mark Futterman joins Sage as Head of Strategic Initiatives & Operations, Library Marketing – 29 July 2025 Steven Hall has joined Edinburgh University Press as Non-Executive Director – 1 August […]
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New appointments to the Liverpool University Press Board of Directors
Liverpool University Press has announced two new senior appointments, with Professor Georgina Endfield FBA appointed Chair of LUP’s Board of Directors and Dr Matt Greenhall joining the Board as a non-executive director.
Awards
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JSTOR Seeklight honored with C.F.W. Coker Award for Description
Established in 1984, the award recognizes projects that advance archival description by setting national standards, modeling best practices, and reshaping how archival materials are made discoverable. Recipients are selected by an SAA-appointed subcommittee, including members of the organization’s Description Section. In its announcement, SAA praised JSTOR Seeklight as “a notable example of innovative and forward-thinking…