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Taylor & Francis has confirmed both journals in its innovative pilot, Collective Pathway to Open Publishing (CPOP), will be converted to open access (OA) for 2025.

CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has been named a winner in the 2025 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards, highlighting the company’s “exceptional advancements in AI and the value it brings to stakeholders and the broader community” through its Annual Copyright License (ACL), an enterprise-wide rights licensing solution offering companies an efficient way to license rights, including rights for the internal use of legally-procured copyrighted materials within AI systems, and to use copyrighted materials with AI systems by providing users with a harmonized set of internal use AI rights from a broad range of rightsholders.

With AI playing an increasingly vital role in academia, ProQuest, part of Clarivate, is expanding its series of responsibly developed academic AI tools, keeping library resources on pace with user expectations. The Ebook Central Research Assistant joins the Web of Science, Primo, and ProQuest Research Assistants in supporting research insights and developing critical thinking.

Global healthcare knowledge provider, BMJ Group, is expanding its open access reach by introducing new and renewed Read and Publish agreements for 2025, further reinforcing its ongoing support for enhancing global knowledge sharing. With agreements now spanning the Americas, Australia, and Europe, these partnerships enable researchers to publish their work openly, reaching a broader audience and amplifying the impact of their research.

Preprints.org, a multidisciplinary preprint platform by open-access publisher MDPI, has unveiled its new Reading List feature on World Book Day 2025. The new feature helps researchers, authors, and readers curate and share collections of preprint articles, versions of a scientific paper that precede formal peer review and publication. In conjunction, Preprints.org has introduced two community programs—the Preprint Reading Marathon and Reader’s Choice—offering certificates, discounts on MDPI Author Services, and global engagement opportunities.

Clarivate Plc, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today released EndNote 2025, a comprehensive reference management solution that streamlines the research and writing process. Its new features include AI support, enhanced referencing tools, and journal matching capabilities, designed to save researchers time and improve accuracy.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest computing society, has joined India’s One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) initiative through a transformative new read-and-publish agreement with the ACM Open program. This agreement provides 6,500 government-funded higher education and research institutions across India with Premium Access to the ACM Digital Library, while enabling authors in participating institutions to publish an unlimited number of Open Access research articles in ACM journals, ACM conference proceedings and ICPS Proceedings with no article processing charges (APCs).

The Biochemical Society and Vanderbilt University’s Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries are delighted to announce an open access agreement that supports the open sharing of research and knowledge from across the molecular biosciences.

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) introduces EBSCO Discovery: Open Education, a powerful, centralized platform designed to streamline access to open-access e-books and journals and Open Educational Resources (OER). Built to help institutions reduce textbook costs and support educational equity, this solution empowers libraries and faculty to easily incorporate high-quality, freely licensed materials into courses while sustainably managing expenses and workflows.

The Malaysian Association of Research Managers and Administrators (MyRMA) announces a strategic partnership with Trinka AI, a leading AI-powered writing assistant specializing in academic and technical writing. This collaboration aims to provide all the 25+ member institutions under MyRMA with exclusive access to Trinka AI’s advanced tools at preferential rates to enhance the quality and efficiency of research outputs across Malaysia.

Preprints.org, a multidisciplinary preprint platform by the leading fully open-access publisher MDPI, is strengthening its partnership with PREreview, a non-profit dedicated to promoting equity and transparency in research feedback. Thanks to a new type of integration, submitting authors can now request community feedback directly from PREreview with a single click on Preprints.org. This makes it easier to gather feedback and insights and, as a result, accelerate the route to publication.

Delta Think is currently spearheading an industry market research survey to authors and researchers across the scholarly community designed to provide insight into the impact of potential US federal funding reductions on their research. The survey addresses topics such as publication volume, their ability/allowance for peer review, conference participation and attendance, influence on their research scope and topics, and more.