Editorial
UKSG news
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Unlocking the Power of Community: Reflections on the UKSG Forum 2025
Last week Rob Johnson attended the UKSG Forum in Brighton – “one of my favourite days in the scholarly communications calendar.” The unofficial theme? Necessity is the mother of invention. Speaker after speaker described shrinking budgets, reduced teams, and constrained spaces. But what emerged wasn’t despair but rather creativity, collaboration, and community.
Forthcoming Events
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UKSG Annual Conference 2026
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Industry news
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Impelsys and Delta Think join forces
Together, Impelsys and Delta Think form a full-stack partner that can advise on business strategy and deliver technology execution at scale.
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Oxford University Press completes acquisition of Karger Publishers
During the coming months, OUP and Karger plan to take some time to establish the best ways to work together. All current contacts remain the same and the 2026 sales renewal process continues as normal for both Karger and OUP subscriptions.
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Scholastica’s peer review system now includes manuscript transfers
Publishers can configure the new feature to allow editors to offer authors the opportunity to have their manuscript transferred to another eligible journal in their portfolio, in cases where a submission seems better suited to an alternate title.
Resources
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EBSCO and American Geosciences Institute create “GeoRef with Full Text”
EBSCO and the American Geosciences Institute (AGI), collaborated to release GeoRef with Full Text, a powerful resource for researchers and students in the geosciences. The resource combines AGI’s expert geological indexing with full-text access to leading journals and magazines, offering expansive geoscience coverage across time and geography.
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Sense about Science and Taylor & Francis launch research integrity toolkit for early career researchers
The toolkit is authored by Sense about Science and Taylor & Francis with input from the UK Research Integrity Office (UKRIO), guided by honest questions and experiences shared by early career researchers during co-creation workshops.
People
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eNews 600 – People
Caitlin Meadows has joined PA Editorial as Business Development Manager – 9 December 2025 Hong Zhou joins KGL as Vice President, Product Management – 9 December 2025
Awards
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EBSCO’s LitBase wins Outstanding Academic Title Award by Choice
Titles named to the Outstanding Academic Title list were chosen for their exceptional scholarly quality, clarity of presentation, and the significance of their contribution to the academic community. Representing just twelve percent of the works reviewed by Choice over the past year, Outstanding Academic Titles truly stand out as the ‘best of the best.’ Inclusion…