Editorial
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The OA Forward Registry: relaunching and rebranding the ESAC Registry
The OA Forward Registry (formerly the ESAC Registry) of OA publishing agreements was relaunched in early 2026 with improved functionality, and a broader scope to include all types of deals beyond transformative agreements.
UKSG news
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Levelling the playing field: small European publishers, open access transition and the problem of scale – the latest from UKSG Insights
Small publishers are vital to scholarly communication, particularly in the humanities and social sciences and in contexts that are served poorly by large commercial publishers. This study highlights the systemic inequities that small publishers face, emphasizing the imbalances between large and small publishers.
Forthcoming Events
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UKSG forthcoming events
Open access, usage data, understanding resource discovery and a week on the theme of Trust – read more about our upcoming seminars
Industry news
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Informa to offload T&F?
Informa on Tuesday announced plans to buy events organizer Clarion from Blackstone for an enterprise value of £2.24 billion, or about $3 billion, and said it will separate its Taylor & Francis academic publishing arm to focus on business-to-business events.
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Chinese Academy of Science launches national scientific journal publishing group
“The group’s launch marks a substantive strategic shift from scattered, institute-run journal operations to fully integrated and intensive publishing. It will pool high-quality journal resources across CAS and even the whole country to create economies of scale and strengthen cluster advantages,”
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STM and Ithaka S+R launch research project on the interface between scholarly content and AI
The three-month study, led by Ithaka S+R, will investigate how AI agents discover scholarly content, authenticate through a user’s entitlements, receive provenance-bearing information, and create a credible record of content use. Bringing together publishers, repositories, infrastructure providers and AI developers, the research will explore where approaches are converging, where challenges remain, and what requirements there…
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PLOS and Janeway collaborate to develop open-source publishing infrastructure
Janeway has announced a new collaboration with PLOS to develop and extend the Janeway codebase for use in parts of PLOS’s article submission process. As part of the collaboration, PLOS is contributing engineering effort, code and ideas upstream, helping to develop shared open-source infrastructure for the benefit of both PLOS and the wider scholarly publishing…
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NISO publishes revised Journal Article Versions (JAV) recommended practice
First published in 2008 through a partnership between NISO and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), the original JAV Recommended Practice gave the scholarly community a common vocabulary for the versions of a journal article that appear online before, during, and after formal publication.
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The Microbiology Society selects KGL PubFactory for journal hosting and publishing platform
The Microbiology Society has selected KGL PubFactory, the online hosting division of KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. (KGL), as the new digital publishing platform and host for its portfolio of eight titles.
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Jisc warns vice-chancellors of increasing cyber threat
In the first quarter of 2026 Jisc reported eight ransomware attacks on member institutions and found over 144,000 username and password combinations relating to members on the dark web.
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Ebsco releases latest Serials Price Projection forecast
EBSCO Information Services has released its 2027 Serials Price Projection Report, forecasting an overall effective serials price increase of 4-6% before currency impact. The report examines the factors shaping library budgets, including inflations, currency fluctuations, evolving publishing models, and AI investments.
Resources
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New filmed workshop from industry-leading devised theatre company Told by an Idiot
Led by Artistic Director Paul Hunter and supported by a range of associate artists, Devised Theatre Workshop: Told by an Idiot is designed to offer a unique insight into their devising process: ‘The Way of the Idiot’. Practitioners and students can follow the course progressively or dip into individual sessions. A variety of physical and…
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Jazz and Blues collection now live on Bloomsbury Music & Sound
The Jazz and Blues collection is now live on Bloomsbury Music & Sound with 52 eBooks to support students in the study of jazz and blues music, ranging widely over its development and global impact.
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Classical Music and Opera collection now live on Bloomsbury Music & Sound
The Classical Music and Opera collection is now live on Bloomsbury Music & Sound – a collection of 62 key works that gives students an essential grounding in the history of classical and operatic music, from the fifteenth century through to the present day.
People
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People on the move – eNews 618
Changes at the top at the University of York, The Company of Biologists, MDPI and Lyrasis