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Frontiers has renewed its national open access agreement with Norway for 2025, reinforcing a shared commitment to advancing open science. Originally signed in 2020, this agreement - facilitated by the Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research (Sikt) - streamlines the publishing process for Norwegian researchers and strengthens the country’s leadership in open access publishing.

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and CSIRO Publishing, Australia's leading science publisher of books, peer-reviewed journals, and magazines, today announced a new Journal Home partnership covering over half of CSIRO Publishing’s internationally respected journal portfolio.

The OA2020 Initiative, coordinated by the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) on behalf of the Max Planck Society, will host the 17th Berlin Open Access Conference (B17) on February 5-6, 2025 at Harnack House, Berlin. The conference is entitled "Moving OA Forward: From Transformation to Collective Responsibility".

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) introduces Ultimate Databases for Schools and Public Libraries to provide reliable, high-quality, curated content to support the research needs of middle and high school students, educators and public library patrons. The collection includes six multidisciplined databases offering full-text magazines and journals, nonfiction and reference e-books, educational videos, primary source documents and evidence-based health reports accessible through an intuitive user experience and seamless integrations.

The Royal Society of Chemistry has agreed a new three-year Open Access publishing agreement with Couperin, a consortium of French Higher Education and Research establishments. The agreement represents the expansion of a longstanding and successful partnership, building on the success of the previous agreement, from 2022-2024. The members of the agreement include the leading universities in France.

Elsevier, a global leader in scientific information and analytics, and The Carolina Consortium opens in new tab/window, a leading advocate for academic collaboration and access to knowledge, are pleased to announce a new Read and Publish (R&P) agreement for 2025. The three-year agreement underscores the Consortium’s commitment to empowering its member institutions with seamless access to scholarly content and sustainable publishing options.

Silverchair announced today the expansion of its renowned Silverchair Universe partner program and now includes ScholarOne partnerships. Originally launched in 2017 as a framework of complementary products and services that publishers may integrate with the Silverchair Platform, the newly expanded program builds on the success of the original offering to include not only the organizations in the ScholarOne Partner Program, but also to recognize partnerships that fall out of strictly technical integrations.

Oxford University Press (OUP) will help advance the field of medicine and healthcare by publishing open access journal Research Connections in early 2025. The primary focus of Research Connections will be to support the scientific community by publishing strong foundational research and important contributions to evidence-based medicine practice.

PubHive Ltd., a global leader and provider of the award-winning AI-powered SaaS platform for scientific literature & safety information workflows, proudly announces the multilingual upgrade to its flagship platform, PubHive Navigator. This enhancement simplifies scientific literature workflows for life sciences teams worldwide, enabling them to work seamlessly in their local languages.

Scholastica, a leading software solutions provider for academic journals, has released a new integration with Crossmark by Crossref, the industry standard mechanism for reporting updates to published research.

We are delighted to announce that MDPI has extended its agreement with the Jisc consortium in the UK for 2025. This renewal reaffirms our strong partnership with UK institutions, emphasizing our shared commitment to advancing open access publishing and ensuring broad accessibility to high-quality research.

Reviewer Credits, the Berlin-based network for peer reviewers and publishing integrity hub, is pleased to announce a new partnership with HighWire Press, integrating HighWire’s new DigiCorePro submission system into its existing suite of technical integrations.