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PubHive, the award-winning AI-powered SaaS platform company for scientific literature and safety information management, is proud to announce its recognition as the Client Service Excellence Award - 2025 winner at the SME News IT Awards. The accolade, presented by SME News as part of its prestigious annual IT Awards program, honours outstanding service delivery, customer satisfaction, and impact in the information technology sector. PubHive was recognized for its continued commitment to client-centric innovation, responsive support, and tailored onboarding that empower life sciences organizations to transform complex workflows into scalable, compliant, and efficient operations.

This spring, Delta Think collaborated with 27 professional societies and associations to launch a Global Author/Researcher Survey to understand the ripple effect of US government research funding cuts. Our goal was to explore how researchers are navigating a rapidly evolving landscape, especially as US federal funding and policy decisions cast long shadows over the global research community.

Kudos, the platform for showcasing research, has announced that it has been chosen by Pfizer to support the dissemination of the latter’s scientific publications. Kudos will host clinical summaries and links to related content such as peer-reviewed articles, infographics, conference posters, videos, fact sheets, and more. The first treatment areas to benefit will be Inflammation and Immunology, Internal Medicine, and Vaccines.

There are a growing number of aggressive crawlers interacting with repositories. While many crawlers are rather innocuous, others are sufficiently aggressive that they are increasingly causing service disruptions in repositories. A survey undertaken by COAR in April 2025 found that 90% of respondents indicated their repository is encountering aggressive crawlers (referred here colloquially as “AI Bots”), usually more than once a week, and often leading to slow downs and service outages.

Royal Society Publishing has announced a new Read & Publish agreement with Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), marking a major milestone in open access publishing for researchers in Brazil.

We’re excited to launch the next generation of research integrity evaluation. Sleuth AI transforms how editorial and research integrity teams investigate manuscripts — turning hours of manual analysis into minutes of intelligent, interactive exploration. Ask questions, uncover evidence, detect potential issues — all with the transparency and explainability that research integrity decisions demand.

Enago Reports, trusted and used by publishers, scholarly societies, academic institutions and independent researchers is excited to announce a significant addition of advanced research integrity checks across research authenticity, citation reliability and content quality. These new checks have been added to an existing suite of manuscript screening checks for content integrity, language quality, technical compliance, AI-powered proofreading and plagiarism detection.

STM has joined the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, the Association of University Presses, and the Society for Scholarly Publishing in a unified call to safeguard the future of research.

LIBER is launching a dedicated taskforce to investigate Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments across the research library field, strengthen its strategic approach to AI-related matters, and provide hands-on guidance for librarians to take on the leading role in AI literacy.

67 Bricks and Bone & Joint have been shortlisted for this year’s ALPSP Innovation Award in Publishing for their AI-generated podcast series ‘AI Talks with Bone & Joint’. The tool seamlessly converts static research PDFs into lively and engaging podcasts, accurately summarising a paper’s findings. The podcasts give the Bone & Joint community a new way to keep up-to-date with the latest articles while multitasking, enabling them to discover which content they may wish to dive into further and in more detail.

Get Full Text Research (GetFTR), the cross industry collaboration designed to improve access to academic content, is pleased to announce two new integrations: Lean Library, the library services tool, and Scite, a next-generation citation index from Research Solutions, along with its AI-powered research assistant, Scite Assistant. These collaborations further GetFTR’s mission to support streamlined, user-centric access to scholarly content across the whole research ecosystem.

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and SLACK Journals, part of the Wyanoke Group and trusted publisher of specialty medical content for more than 60 years, today announced a new Journal Home partnership that will amplify the global reach and impact of SLACK authors.