Editorial
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Introducing the Open Journals Collective
The Open Journals Collective (OJC), an international collective of libraries, scholarly societies, and small non-profit publishers changing the way that academic research is supported and disseminated. Publishing partners publish leading academic journals that are openly available – free to read, published with no embargos, and with no author payments.
UKSG news
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UKSG AGM 2026
The 2026 Annual General Meeting of UKSG will be held on 14 April 2026, 3pm GMT, and papers will be sent to all Authorised Representatives and Main Contacts in advance. A formal pre-notice of the AGM and agenda will be mailed to member’s representatives.
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Last chance to book – UKSG 2026
Bookings will close soon for the conference in Glasgow, and as usual there will be no on-site registrations – so if you are planning on coming to one of the best conferences in our community – BOOK NOW!
Forthcoming Events
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UKSG upcoming events – March 2026
New free webinar – “Why we all need to defend research”, plus this is your last chance to book your place at the annual conference next month in Glasgow
Industry news
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Elsevier, Wiley, BMJ Group, American Physical Society and Oxford University Press join Kudos’ zero-click and AI search study
The Taming the Crocodile study takes its name from “the Crocodile Effect,” a term coined by SaaS marketing expert Tim Soulo to describe the widening gap between search impressions and click-throughs. In the scholarly context, this shift raises urgent questions not only about traffic and subscription revenues, but also about attribution, version control, research integrity…
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Tackling technical legacy in UK higher education: a strategic imperative (Jisc)
This briefing paper covers the scale and impact of technical legacy across the sector and areas for coordinated sector activity to strengthen digital, data and technology infrastructure.
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DOAJ to introduce premium metadata services to support sustainable Open Infrastructure
The initiative is intended to support the long-term sustainability of DOAJ’s open infrastructure while ensuring that essential metadata functions remain freely accessible to the scholarly publishing community.
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Springer reports “very strong business performance” in 2025. Continued growth expected in 2026
The company expects FY 2026 revenue to grow in underlying terms between 5% and 6% with AOP margin increasing by around 30 basis points in underlying terms.
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Signals raises $1.1m in Seed funding round with investors ACS and Enago
Strategic investments from ACS Publications, Enago, Scholarly Angels, and leading angel investors will accelerate development of next-generation research integrity tools for the scholarly publishing community.
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Publishers sue ‘shadow’ library allegedly powering AI chatbots
The publishers said Anna’s Archive claims to have given “high-speed access” to the stolen works to customers in China, Russia and other countries for the training of AI large language models that power chatbots and other systems.
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IOP Publishing expands APC discounts and waivers to over 120 economies
The expansion covers IOPP’s entire proprietary portfolio of OA and hybrid journals and extends APC support to authors in 122 economies through a new three‑tier discount structure: 100% for authors from eligible low-income economies, 70% for those from eligible lower‑middle‑income economies and – for the first time- 30% for those from eligible upper‑middle‑income economies.
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IET chooses Cadmore Media to deliver a scalable, video first IET.tv
The new IET.tv brings streamlined workflows for video ingestion, encoding, metadata management, streaming, and reporting into a single ecosystem.
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eLife receives Wellcome boost to build open publishing ecosystem
eLife has announced funding from Wellcome which will support a new initiative, called eLife Pathways, in building an open and collaborative ecosystem for alternative approaches to scholarly communication.
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STM publishes new document on responsible use of research content in generative AI
STM has published “Toward Responsible Use of Research Content in Generative AI,” a discussion document putting forward considerations for the responsible use of research content in generative AI tools, and inviting the broader research and GenAI development community to engage.
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American Chemical Society and IEEE sign MOU to strengthen STEM collaboration
Under the memorandum of understanding the two organizations will explore opportunities for cooperative initiatives.
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A new system for measuring data reuse and research impact
DataSeer, in collaboration with The Michael J. Fox Foundation (MJFF), have developed a new LLM-based system that is designed to detect and quantify dataset reuse across the scholarly literature at scale.
Resources
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EBSCO launches Global Indigenous Studies Database
The extensive collection in “Indigenous Studies Source” contains 138 full-text journals and magazines. It also features seminal books, tribal newspapers and reports covering the fifty largest Indigenous groups across North America, Asia, South America, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. Topics span cultural preservation and ethnohistory, as well as Indigenous knowledge systems and the experience of Indigenous…
People
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People – UKSG eNews 606
Changes at the top of SPARC and Springer Nature