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Simba Information’s latest report, Global Professional Publishing, 2025–2029, offers a strategic and forward-looking analysis of the $89 billion global professional publishing market. Once defined by print-heavy and static formats, the industry is undergoing rapid transformation—driven by AI integration, real-time analytics, and workflow automation.

An analysis of article views in Taylor & Francis medical journals has revealed that ‘extenders’ can significantly increase readership. Plain Language Summaries of Publications and Clinical Trial Protocols with extenders attracted 144% higher views than those without these supplemental resources.

Hum today announced that Dustin Smith, the company’s co‑founder, has been appointed CEO. Dustin succeeds Tim Barton, who led Hum through its early scaling phase. Barton is retiring from day‑to‑day operations and will continue to support Hum as an advisor. 

STM joins a global coalition of authors and rightsholders to express disappointment in the lack of ambition shown in the European Commission’s AI Act implementation package — including the Code of Practice, the Guidelines, and the Transparency Template. These instruments risk setting the wrong direction toward an implementation of the AI Act that is not meaningful.

With Reaxys AI Search, chemists and R&D teams can explore over 121 million chemistry documents, patents and peer-reviewed journal articles, unlocking more relevant insights faster and accelerating discovery.

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Digital Science is pleased to announce that Emerald Publishing has adopted Dimensions Author Check as part of Emerald’s ongoing commitment to research integrity. Dimensions Author Check offers publishers a fast and reliable way to incorporate research integrity checks into their work, helping to support responsible and ethical publishing.

The Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) and IOP Publishing (IOPP) will convertMetrologia, the international journal dealing with the science of measurement and its applications to a fully open access (OA) publishing model.

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) agent powered by a large language model (LLM) that creates more accurate and informative descriptions of biological processes and their functions in gene set analysis than current systems.

To solve many of the world’s most pressing problems, open access advocates believe knowledge needs to be shared widely. Those who support publicly engaged or community-engaged research emphasize the benefit of science being broadly accessible and informed by the contributions of multiple partners and/or interest holders to amplify impact. 

IOP Publishing (IOPP) and the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) are strengthening their long-standing partnership through a new agreement that will see the transfer of the journal Medical Engineering and Physics (MEP) to IOPP’s platform alongside the launch of Medical Sensors and Imaging (MSI), a new gold open access (OA) journal on behalf of IPEM.

The British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) have expanded their partnership with ScienceOpen to take advantage of our full publishing suite. Going forwards, ScienceOpen will provide a manuscript submission and peer review management system and full Open Access hosting for the BAPIO journals. BAPIO is a non-profit organisation welcoming academic research from all healthcare professionals, with a focus on diversity, equality, and inclusion.