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Taylor & Francis has announced significant updates to its platform, designed to enhance the visibility of multimedia research content. New journal-level features on Taylor & Francis Online showcase content such as audio abstracts, podcasts, and video articles, which can help boost the impact of associated research.

Springer Nature, a leading global science publisher, today announced strong results for the first half of 2025. On an underlying1 basis, group revenue rose by 6% and adjusted operating profit (AOP) by 10%. First-half revenue increased to €926 million and AOP to €241 million, supported by a favourable revenue mix. Growth was driven by the Research segment.

Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers and a trusted leader in research and learning, today announced that 1,000 scholarly journals have successfully transitioned to its Research Exchange platform, representing more than 50% of the company's journal portfolio. This significant milestone demonstrates Wiley's commitment to creating industry-leading solutions that prioritize research integrity, agile development, and support a modern publishing infrastructure.

The Royal Society has agreed plans that would make its journals fully open access in 2026 by adopting the ‘Subscribe to Open’ model. Under plans agreed in July 2025, libraries subscribed to Royal Society journals will now be asked to support Subscribe to Open in 2026 through their subscriptions. If sufficient libraries continue their subscriptions, the journals will be converted to open access for the year.

Springer Nature has released its fourth annual Open Access (OA) report providing a transparent, data-led[1], overview of progress made in OA publishing and access. Marking ten years since signing its first, pioneering transformative agreement (TAs), the report highlights how the company’s responsible approach continues to increase visibility and impact for its authors, while calling for greater industry collaboration to support a more inclusive and sustainable OA transition.

The fully open access publisher MDPI has reached a significant milestone as it continues to scale in response to growing global demand for rigorous, author-focused publishing. The Basel-headquartered company, founded in 1996, now employs more than 8,000 staff worldwide, with nearly 2,000 new colleagues hired in 2025 alone.

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing technology for humanity, announced today that its journals once again excelled in the journal citation rankings according to the latest Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR) from Clarivate Analytics and CiteScore™ metrics by Scopus, both released in June 2025.

Springer Nature has launched a new tool for use across submissions to its journals and books to detect non-standard phrases in submitted manuscripts, marking the latest step in its ongoing mission to uphold research integrity and safeguard the scholarly record.

As part of its ongoing commitment to scientific transparency and responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced plans to implement a new policy that will cap how much publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their research findings publicly accessible. This initiative reflects a broader effort to restore public trust in public health by promoting open, honest, and transparent scientific communication.

Silverchair has launched the pilot of ScholarOne Gateway, a new centralized hub that will revolutionize the way authors interact with publishers during the submission and peer review process. ScholarOne Gateway addresses critical pain points in the peer review process by creating a unified, modern experience that connects authors to a publisher’s entire journal portfolio through a single, intuitive interface.

Clarivate Plc, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today published its annual G20 research and innovation scorecard, developed by expert analysts and data scientists at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) at Clarivate. This interactive scorecard offers a comprehensive, data-driven view of the research and innovation capabilities of G20 member nations.

China is outstripping the rest of the world in artificial intelligence research at a time when AI is becoming a “strategic asset” akin to energy or military capability, according to a new report released today by research technology company Digital Science. The report – entitled DeepSeek and the New Geopolitics of AI: China’s ascent to research pre-eminence in AI – has been authored by Digital Science CEO Dr Daniel Hook based on data from Dimensions, the world’s largest and most comprehensive database describing the global research ecosystem.