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Hum today announced that the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), one of the largest life science societies, has selected Hum's Alchemist Taxonomy platform to enhance content organization, discovery, and audience engagement across ASM’s 16 scientific journals.

Effective June 1, 2025, SPARC will officially transition from operating as a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund to an independent nonprofit organization. We have successfully incorporated SPARC as a charitable nonprofit organization in Washington, DC., and have filed for our 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.

Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced a multi-year partnership with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), a consortium of libraries and research institutions in Canada. The agreement provides 55 Canadian universities with expanded access to the Web of Science and is designed to enhance inter-member research collaborations, improving accessibility to Web of Science content for all members.

Hum today announced that the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), one of the largest life science societies, has selected Hum's Alchemist Taxonomy platform to enhance content organization, discovery, and audience engagement across ASM’s 16 scientific journals.

Impelsys, a global leader in technology solutions, is pleased to announce its strategic partnership with AlgoShack, a company that offers algoQA—a unified platform for end-to-end test automation. The collaboration is set to transform software testing through cutting-edge, AI-powered test automation solutions, marking a shift toward intelligent automation and sustained excellence in quality assurance (QA).

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and OAE Publishing, a multidisciplinary open-access publisher, today announced a new Journal Home partnership that will further OAE Publishing’s mission to build a more open and transparent publishing ecology.

The Big Ten Academic Alliance has signed a two-year Open Publishing Agreement with Springer Nature, making it the publisher’s first truly unlimited and uncapped open access agreement in the Americas. This is the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s fifth Open Publishing Agreement or OPA, and its most expansive to date.

We have now launched our Next 50% project, with a primer document that frames a fresh conversation about the future of open access. The timing is critical....

The global impact of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) research is set to increase under a new open access (OA) agreement with publisher Taylor & Francis. The three-year partnership will enable UNAM researchers to publish OA articles in more than 2,400 journals.

A new five-year agreement between the Australian Academy of Science and CSIRO continues a long-standing collaboration to support CSIRO’s 15 Journals of Scientific Research. These journals are published by CSIRO Publishing, an editorially independent publishing unit within CSIRO. Each year, over 1,000 high-quality, internationally significant articles are published, with a particular focus on Australia and the surrounding region.

Frontiers announces a new open access publishing agreement with the University of Padua, supported by its Open Science Committee, ensuring that affiliated researchers can publish their work seamlessly in any of Frontiers’ journals without incurring individual article processing charges (APCs).

IOP Publishing is introducing the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) across all its proprietary journals to enhance recognition for authors. The taxonomy provides a standardised framework to define and recognise the diverse roles authors play during the production and publication of research outputs such as research articles. 

Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced the renewal of its multi-year partnership with CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior), significantly expanding access to trusted Academia & Government and Life Sciences & Healthcare data across over 400 Brazilian institutions.

In line with the Government of India’s groundbreaking One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) initiative, Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers and a trusted leader in research and learning, has signed a 3-year license agreement. Under this agreement, Wiley has enabled access to nearly 2,000 journals, supporting approximately 18 million students, researchers, and faculty across 6,300+ government higher education institutions and research centers nationwide.

IOP Publishing and Fudan University are organising a one-day international workshop, AI-driven discoveries: Machine Learning for the Physical Sciences. The event brings together leading researchers from around the world to explore how machine learning and AI are transforming the physical sciences.