Editorial
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Creating sustainable and ethical AI partnerships: Recommendations in AI licensing
Sara Crowley Vigneau is the Partnerships Lead at AI-powered digital library Zendy. In this post, Sara explores how strategic partnerships across publishing and research can drive the sustainable development and licensing of AI technologies.
UKSG news
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My #UKSG2025: Stephen Macdonald looks back at his first conference
In the first of an occasional series, our conference first timers look back at the event and their key highlights. First up, Stephen Macdonald, University of Lincoln
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“People make UKSG” Romy Beard reflects back on the 13 UKSG conferences that she has attended
2025 marks my 20th anniversary of working in scholarly publishing. As I was travelling back home to Glasgow after this year’s UKSG conference in Brighton, I was reflecting on what a big part of my career the conference has played, and how my reasons for attending have changed over the years and the 13 events…
Forthcoming Events
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UKSG Forthcoming events (eNews 585)
Upcoming seminars include the popular Licensing Skills, Open Educational Resouces plus a new FREE webinar “OA Book Usage Data Trust”
Industry news
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EBSCO launches EBSCO Discovery: Open Education to enhance accessibility and reduce costs
The platform represents EBSCO’s ongoing commitment to improving the library experience and fostering educational equity. By facilitating easy access to a broad range of materials, it empowers institutions to provide more affordable and accessible learning resources, supporting efforts to enhance student success and retention.
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Springer Nature’s first annual report as a public company
Frank Vrancken Peeters, Chief Executive Officer of Springer Nature, said: “I am very proud of how we continue to deliver on our mission to be part of progress. We remain focused on serving our community by enabling millions of researchers, educators, learners and health professionals to, every day, access, trust and make sense of the…
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SLA announces dissolution
The Special Libraries Association (SLA) has announced it will begin a dissolution process after 116 years of service to the profession.
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Portico to preserve Clarivate’s Ebook Central
Portico has signed an agreement with Clarivate to preserve books available to academic libraries through Ebook Central.
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PLOS and Society of China University Journals partner to advance open science
By combining expertise, both organizations seek to drive meaningful progress in the adoption of open-access publishing models and ensure that researchers worldwide benefit from a more inclusive and trustworthy scholarly ecosystem.
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New research integrity AI tool added to Springer Nature’s growing portfolio
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.
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ISSN International Centre clarifies rules for ISSN assignment
ISSN assignment follows a geographical rule: the country of publication is determined by the first or most typographically prominent place mentioned on a given resource.
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IOP Publishing advances research data sharing with new policy for two journals
The policy seeks to cultivate greater transparency and trust in science, stipulating that authors must share all necessary data required to validate or reproduce their findings, following the FAIR data principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) wherever possible.
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Introducing JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services integrates digital asset management, long-term preservation (powered by Portico), increased discovery through JSTOR, and a first-of-its-kind AI-assisted metadata generation tool that accelerates collection processing while maintaining expert oversight.
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Helping small publishers in Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK with OA
The Knowledge Exchange has commissioned a study from Information Power to identify and analyse the challenges — both real and perceived — small publishers face when transitioning to open access publishing and to explore the pathways that these publishers consider and adopt in making the transition.
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F1000 extends pioneering Open Research Africa publishing platform to all authors in Africa
All articles with an author based in Africa can now be submitted, regardless of their funder. Previously, only work supported by an ORA partnering research funder could be published on the platform.
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EBSCO launches newest AI features
EBSCO is introducing two new artificial intelligence (AI) features, AI Insights and Natural Language Search (NLS). AI Insights generates a short list of key insights from full-text articles, while NLS improves the researcher’s experience when using their natural language, enhancing context handling and overall search accuracy. These new capabilities are part of EBSCO’s ongoing commitment…
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Delta Think launches survey to assess impact of potential United States federal funding reductions on researchers
Conducted in collaboration with nearly 20 scholarly societies, the initiative aims to collect evidence-based insights that can support societies in strategic planning and member engagement. The results will also provide scholarly publishers with systematic, quantitative data to guide scenario planning and policy response in an evolving funding environment.
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Coventry University and Sylla collaborate to grow the use of OER across 2,000 modules: covering its full undergraduate programme
Coventry University and Sylla will work together to enable academics and module leads to easily discover and adopt high quality OERs to support their teaching and benefit all students, ensuring they have free access to essential learning content.
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Cadmore Media partners with Highwire Press
This collaboration enables publishers to embed accessible video directly into their journal articles and digital books content, while centralizing video management across their platforms, all within a seamless and integrated workflow.
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Journal news
Resources
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Emerald Publishing partners with EveryLibrary Institute to support United States academic librarians
As part of this initiative, the EveryLibrary Institute, with support from Emerald Publishing, will launch a webinar series to examine policy developments at federal and state levels that impact academic libraries, offering practical strategies for navigating evolving institutional and legislative challenges.
People
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UKSG eNews 585 People
Changes at ACRL, ALA and Thieme India
Awards
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67 Bricks named ‘Finalists’ for three British Data Awards
67 Bricks has been shortlisted for three awards in this year’s British Data Awards, in the categories ‘Consultancy of the Year’, ‘Generative AI Initiative of the Year’ and ‘Data for Good Consulting Initiative of the Year’ for our work in building AI-generated podcasts.