Frontiers supports LIBER 2025 in Lausanne – welcoming library leaders to publisher’s home city

May 14, 2025

Lausanne-based open access publisher Frontiers is pleased to be the main sponsor of the 2025 LIBER Conference, taking place this summer in the open access publisher’s home city.

“For Frontiers, partnering with LIBER for the 2025 conference edition in Lausanne is not just a sponsorship — it’s a commitment to strengthening our relationship with university libraries and supporting their transition to open access. It is a first step in our partnership with the LIBER community,” says Dr Franck Vazquez, Director of Open Science at Frontiers.

The conference theme, “Engage, collaborate, innovate: libraries working to address global challenges,” aligns with Frontiers’ belief that meaningful progress in research happens through collaboration — in a world where knowledge is shared, reused, and built upon. Throughout the week, the Frontiers team will engage with delegates to discuss their institutional needs, share data-driven insights and offer one-on-one conversations to understand their publishing activity, explore sustainable funding models and strategies to reach their open access objectives. Frontiers’ support for LIBER reflects its broader commitment to working with libraries to build a fair scholarly ecosystem, from advancing equitable publishing models to championing open data and digital innovation.

“LIBER is delighted to partner with Frontiers for this year’s conference,” says Martine Pronk, Executive Director of LIBER. “We share a vision of an open, diverse and inclusive scholarly ecosystem that provides sustainable access to scholarship and research communication. Hosting our community in Lausanne, with Frontiers’ support, is an opportunity to reflect on progress — and accelerate it together.”

LIBER 2025 delegates are warmly invited to visit the Frontiers stand to learn more about new developments in institutional partnerships, global library collaborations, publishing insights and the latest tools supporting open access on campus.

67 Bricks develops new agentic AI research assistant for proprietary content

May 14, 2025

For publishers wanting to integrate natural language querying without reducing control over their content, 67 Bricks are now offering a compelling solution. Their new tool, developed in-house, can be seamlessly integrated into all existing bespoke or third-party platforms, delivering a research tool that answers users’ queries with responses grounded in paywalled and proprietary content. The tool also guides users as to what else they should be reading to deepen their knowledge, as well as prompting the user to make its suggestions more useful.

This offers an alternative to the public tools released by Anthropic, OpenAI, et al, which require content to be publicly available to take advantage of this functionality. Additionally, 67 Bricks have deep knowledge of the information publishing ecosystem and how these tools can be best integrated to provide a seamless and trustworthy user experience.

67 Bricks CEO, Jennifer Schivas said, ‘We see this as a real opportunity for information publishers to embed their further within the research process – enabling academics, policymakers and even non-experts to ask questions that are responded to with answers backed by citable, reliable evidence’.

The team at 67 Bricks are offering live walkthroughs of the tool to anyone interested in seeing it work in real-time. Companies can email contact@67bricks.com to book their slot.

PubHive Unveils AI-Powered Language Translation to Streamline Global Pharmacovigilance, Medical Affairs & Regulatory Workflows

May 14, 2025

PubHive Ltd., an award-winning and leading provider of cloud-based scientific literature management and safety intelligence solutions for the life sciences industry, today announced the launch of its latest innovation: AI Translation for Pharmacovigilance, Medical Affairs, and Regulatory Compliance. This new capability allows users to seamlessly translate any local language literature into English directly within the PubHive Navigator™ platform, significantly improving workflows, reducing costs, and enhancing operational efficiency across global teams.

Pharmacovigilance, Medical Affairs, and Regulatory Affairs teams often face the costly and time-consuming burden of requesting manual translations for non-English scientific literature – a critical step for local literature monitoring, adverse event detection, regulatory reporting, and global compliance. PubHive’s AI Translation removes this barrier by enabling instant, AI-driven translations, allowing teams to quickly review, assess, and act on foreign language content without operational delays or third-party service dependencies.

Key Benefits of PubHive’s AI Translation Capability:

Faster Workflows: Instantly translate local and global literature to English, accelerating signal detection, safety reporting, regulatory reviews, and medical information management.
Cost Reduction: Eliminate the need for expensive manual translation services for first-hand content assessments.
Regulatory Compliance: Ensure timely review and documentation of foreign language literature to meet global pharmacovigilance regulatory obligations.
Improved Accuracy: Maintain consistency and quality with AI models specifically fine-tuned for scientific, clinical, and medical language translation.
Enhanced Global Collaboration: Enable seamless communication and collaboration among global teams and local affiliates without language barriers.

AI Translation Use Cases on the PubHive Navigator™ Platform:

Local Literature Monitoring: Translate and screen local and regional scientific publications for pharmacovigilance and safety signals.
Literature Review Automation: Simplify and speed up medical and scientific literature review processes across multiple languages.
Medical Information Management: Support fast and accurate responses to medical inquiries from different geographies.
Global Safety Intelligence and Signal Detection: Broaden coverage of safety surveillance efforts by incorporating non-English literature sources without delays.
KOL Mapping & Insights: Translate Key Opinion Leader (KOL) publications to aid Medical Affairs teams in mapping and understanding regional thought leadership.
Regulatory Submissions: Streamline the preparation of periodic safety update reports (PSURs), aggregate reports, and regulatory documentation with evidence sourced from translated non-English publications.
R&D Competitive Intelligence: Translate foreign-language scientific studies to support R&D, clinical, and product development initiatives.

“AI Translation on PubHive Navigator™ is helping global pharmacovigilance and medical affairs teams manage safety data, scientific literature, and medical insights more efficiently across multiple languages” said Raj Vaghela, CEO at PubHive.

For more information about PubHive’s AI Translation capabilities and to request a live demo, please visit:https://pubhive.com/ai-literature-translation

Sage named Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year at the Independent Publishing Awards

May 14, 2025

Sage has won the ProQuest Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year award at the Independent Publishing Awards, which recognizes outstanding publishing organizations that demonstrate quality and success across key areas, including strategy, commissioning, design, sustainability, DEI, customer & market knowledge, and innovation. 

Judges commended Sage for its organic growth in books, journals, and learning resources in the UK. They highlighted Sage’s exemplary market knowledge and praised efforts to make its publishing more diverse and sustainable, remarking, “Sage is delivering strong growth across the board. It’s good to see a social sciences publisher — and such a proudly and resolutely independent one — doing so well.” 

Collecting the award, Ziyad Marar, president of global publishing at Sage, said, “It’s wonderful in our anniversary year to be celebrating our independence. The whole company has changed so radically in the time that various of us have been there, but independence has been that through line that has existed all along.”

Hosted by the Independent Publishers Guild, the awards celebrate the achievements of the independent publishing sector in the UK and Ireland.

Cassyni extends partnership with Springer Nature to deepen researcher engagement by running research seminars at scale

May 14, 2025

Cassyni, the platform for research seminars, and Springer Nature, a global research publisher, today announced the expansion of their partnership to enable more journals to build engagement with their research communities through online seminars.

Springer Nature’s Research Communities provide a free online platform for researchers and peers to connect, generate discussions and explore research findings that matter to them. The extended partnership better integrates Cassyni’s offerings into the platform meaning any journal can easily set up seminars to promote new journal issues, key research articles and calls for papers.

Individual journals, ranging from titles such as Nature Communications to specialist publications such as Nonlinear Dynamics, will host their own research seminars. These seminars will reflect each journal’s unique branding and focus, helping to build dedicated communities around specific research areas. At the same time, the seminars will be promoted across the broader Springer Nature Research Communities platform, encouraging participation beyond the core audience. The outcome is deep engagement between the journals and their primary readership, while also encouraging cross-discipline interaction across the wider community.

Andrew Preston, Co-founder at Cassyni, says:

Cassyni-hosted seminars, which can be embedded directly into a journal’s website, are an ideal solution to meet the changing needs of researchers. These seminars not only attract but also engage a worldwide community of researchers. Thanks to the “Cassyni Effect,” a significant portion of this audience will subsequently cite and publish in the journal hosting the seminars, contributing to the journal’s growth and success. We are thrilled to be able to offer this impactful solution at scale across the Springer Nature portfolio.

Marc Gillett, Head of Editorial Engagement at Springer Nature, says:

At Springer Nature, we are committed to supporting and connecting researchers worldwide – to each other and to the latest research. Our investment in our Research Communities platforms exemplifies this commitment. Expanding our partnership with Cassyni enables us to empower even more journals and authors to extend their interdisciplinary and global connections delivering new value to authors and readers alike.

At launch, the following Communities will be included: Agricultural & Food Science, Astronomy, Cancer, Chemistry, Computational Science, Earth & Environment, Engineering, Genetics & Genomics, Materials, Mathematics & Statistics, Neuroscience, Physics, Social Sciences, and Sustainability.

For more information and to explore the seminars visit: https://cassyni.com/c/springer-nature.

Aries Systems and Leza Solutions Partner to Support Scholarly Publishers in the Greater Middle East

May 7, 2025

Aries Systems Corporation, a leading provider of workflow management technologies for the scholarly publishing community, and Leza Solutions, a digital solutions designer and supplier, are pleased to announce their partnership to support end-to-end publishing in the Greater Middle East.

Through this distribution agreement, scholarly publishers and other content creators within Africa, South and Central Asia, South Caucasus, and the Middle East can now join over 9,000 titles worldwide currently leveraging Editorial Manager® (EM) and ProduXion Manager® (PM), the industry leading peer review and article production tracking systems. Based in Kuwait with extensive experience with leading digital brands, Leza Solutions is well positioned to expand the reach of Aries’ technologies into new and growing markets. This strategic collaboration enables journals within the Greater Middle East to harness the power of EM and PM to optimize their workflows and strengthen their visibility within the scholarly ecosystem.

“We are thrilled to enter an exciting distribution partnership with Leza Solutions to make EM and PM more accessible to publishers in new markets, supporting mutual growth and digital transformation,” said Pierre Montagano, Aries Director of Business Development. “With Leza Solutions’ expertise and local presence, Aries can meet the increasing demand for robust publishing solutions in these regions and support our commitment to serving scholarly communities across the globe.” “We are excited to partner with Aries Systems, a leader in scholarly publishing workflows,” said Naser Al-Ghayeb, CEO of Leza Solutions. “This collaboration allows us to bring their renowned Editorial Manager and ProduXion Manager platforms to the Greater Middle East, empowering publishers in the region with advanced tools. Our team has undergone comprehensive training with Aries, ensuring we can

Beijing International Book Fair announces new Academic publishing conference and hub ahead of its 31th edition

May 7, 2025

The Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), 18-22 June 2025, the second largest book fair in the world, will see a growing focus on academic publishing with a new STM conference and hub for its 31th edition.

Over 200 global libraries and research institutions will attend BIBF, organised by the China National Publications Import and Export (Group) Co., Ltd., alongside a growing list of international exhibitors from 80 countries (up from 71 in 2024).

BIBF also anticipates record international participation at its 31st edition, with over 1,700 exhibitors from countries and organisations worldwide. The fair will open amid optimism in Chinese publishing as OpenBook reported double digit growth in the Chinese trade book market (OpenBook Q1) and expansion in Chinese academic and digital publishing sectors. Chinese authors are increasingly breaking international readership (led by Liu Cixin’s The Three Body Problem) and international authors are seeing success in China, particularly in children’s publishing where two international authors were included in the list of top 10 bestselling Children’s authors in 2024, Christian Jolibois (France) and Erin Hunter (UK).

Bangladesh, Chile, Croatia, Belarus, Oman, Ethiopia, Kenya and Jamaica will make their debut at BIBF, joining national and regional stands from across the globe — including the UK, USA, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Greece, Romania, Iran, the UAE (Abu Dhabi), Malaysia, Azerbaijan, Russia and Saudi Arabia.

Ms Lei Jianhua, Director of the BIBF, Vice President of CNPIEC said:

“Last year we saw a huge growth in international attendance and exhibitors and that is set to continue. We are pleased to see new countries represented from Bangladesh, Chile, Croatia, Belarus, Oman, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Jamaica. We are expanding the PubTech Conference and launching the inaugural STM APAC conference in partnership with the STM Association, launching a new focus area on Academic and Digital publishing with 200 global libraries and research institutions represented. We hope to foster international discussion and cooperation around academic digital content.”

BIBF Timing

Two conferences (PubTech Conference and STM Conference) will take place on 16 June and 17 June before the BIBF fair opens. The fair runs from 18–22 June, with the first three days (18–20 June) reserved for industry professionals and the final two days (21–22 June) open to the public.

BIBF will take place at China National Convention Center for the third year.

Conferences

● Pubtech Conference – on 16 June

○ The 3rd PubTech Conference—titled “Publishing’s Future Empowered by Technology”—will forge an international exchange platform for experts, scholars, leading publishers, and technology specialists to explore how advanced technologies are driving transformative change in publishing, with a focus on integrity, corpus construction, and copyright protection.

● STM conference in partnership with the STM Association– on 17 June

○ The inaugural STM APAC Conference will launch under the theme “Open Driven by Innovation,” marking STM’s first international forum dedicated to bolstering academic publishing in the Asia-Pacific region by leveraging its innovative dynamism and integrating best practices in open science. Notable keynote speakers include Caroline Sutton, CEO of STM, and Yang Wei, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, underscoring these events as must-attend platforms that will empower the high-quality development of academic publishing and foster global collaboration.

New Academic and Digital Publishing Hub at BIBF

Marking a significant innovation at this year’s fair, the Academic Digital Publishing Hub debuts as a dedicated space for in-depth exchanges on digital content and technological solutions. Notably, with Chinese university libraries’ electronic resource acquisition fees reaching a record 65.8% of their literature budgets since 2023 (source: Chinese University Library Information Science Journal 2025) and leading academic publishers—such as Wiley, Pearson, and Oxford University Press—deriving over 70% of their revenue from digital channels, BIBF is providing an area for organisations to discuss growing digital demands and review substantial cooperation opportunities. The fair unites representatives from over 200 global libraries and research institutions, creating an efficient platform for advancing academic publishing, research information services, and library resource development.

BIBF Art Book Fair, Theme is “The Art of Seeing: Visions across Books.” The 2025 edition features a David Hockney–themed exhibition showcasing Thames & Hudson publications—and on‑site artistic recreations of his signature interplay of color, light, and perspective, offering an immersive fusion of art and literature.

BIBF illustration Exhibition has announced its international jury members for 2025 including Anet van de Vorst (Netherlands), Ao De (China), Cen Jun (China), Hanne Bartholin (Denmark), Roderick Mills (UK), Samuel Bennet (UK), and Yu Rong (UK). The exhibition provides a professional global platform for outstanding illustrators, with all award‑winning works unveiled during BIBF 2025.

BIBF Picture Book Fair founded in 2015 has become a vital bridge between Chinese and international picture book publishers. Over eight years, it has welcomed celebrated IPs such as Harry Potter, Barbapapa, and Detective Pippi. In 2025, the fair will span approximately 1,700 m², featuring globally renowned franchises alongside original editions in 14 languages, creating an immersive parent–child reading experience.

Malaysia, the Country of Honour at BIBF 2025, will be represented by a robust delegation of more than 50 representatives, led by the Honourable Deputy Minister of Education and senior officials from the Ministry of Education, comprising government agencies, public and private publishers, university presses, literary foundations, and creative studios, including leading publishers such as PTS Media Group Sdn Bhd, Pelangi Publishing Group, Buku FIXI Sdn Bhd, Odonata Publishing Sdn Bhd, Patriots Publishing Sdn Bhd, Sunway University Press, Penerbit UPSI, the Malaysian Book Publishers Association (MABOPA), and Perbadanan Perpustakaan Selangor.

Growth of Chinese retail book market

● Openbook reported in 2025 Q1, the value of China’s book retail market achieved a 10.77% year-on-year increase, sustaining its recovery momentum. Subjects including education, well-being and AI technology led by Deepseek drove market growth.

● Overall sales growth was still led by the social media video channels, including Douyin (the Chinese TikTok) and Rednote

● In 2024, China’s book retail market saw 1.92 million new titles, as tracked by OpenBook, reaching its highest point in nearly a decade.

● The total number of active titles, as gauged by ISBNs in the overall retail market, reached 2.41 million, an increase of 1.68 percent.

● In 2024, the market valuation—as measured in sales revenue at list price—came to 112.9 billion yuan (US$ 15.5 billion).

● Two international authors were included in the list of top 10 bestselling authors in the Chinese Children’s Book Market in 2024, respectively Christian Jolibois from France and Erin Hunter from the UK.

● In the Chinese market, the film is a clear boost to book sales. Following the popularity of the animated film Ne Zha: The Past of the Three Realms during the Chinese New Year 2025, the new Ne Zha book from CITIC Publishing House topped the mainland February charts of Fiction Bestsellers by OpenBook.

Emerald Publishing acquires now publishers

May 7, 2025

Global academic publisher Emerald Publishing Limited has today acquired now publishers.

Founded in 2004, now publishers is a leading source of academic content, publishing research monographs, journals and Foundations and Trends® (FnT) with strengths in the areas of Business, Economics, Computer Science and Engineering. The sale comprises over 50 books, 14 peer-reviewed journals and 28 Foundations and Trends® serials. The Foundations and Trends® collection includes some of the top ranked journals in their respective fields including FnT Machine Learning (#1 ranked journal in Computer Science in Scimago). The research journal collection complements Emerald’s current journals collection in Business and Economics.

Zac Rolnik, President and CEO, now publishers, said: “We started now publishers with the intention of creating a unique publishing concept focusing on quality and author service. I believe we have lived up to that goal. But with time and changing technology, we saw the need to be part of a larger organization to deal with the myriads of changes in the marketplace. We looked for a partner that appreciated our brand and the quality of our content, but also a publishing house where we share a similar ethos towards authors, editors, librarians, and the research community in general. In addition, Emerald provides the sales and distribution infrastructure to better serve our author community. We look forward to continuing this journey with Emerald.”

Vicky Williams, CEO, Emerald Publishing said: “As an applied publisher of mission driven research, Emerald is thrilled to acquire now publishers. Their dedication to publishing rigorous and accessible research complements Emerald’s commitment to providing researchers, practitioners, and educators with resources that drive real-world impact. now publishers’ strengths in Business, Economics, Computer Science and Engineering, as well as the addition of their pioneering Foundations and Trends® programme, allows us to offer our customers an expanded portfolio of high-quality academic resources. We look forward to welcoming now publishers’ authors and editors to Emerald.”

Nature Portfolio expands to include Nature Health and Nature Sensors in 2026

May 7, 2025

Two new Nature journals, Nature Health and Nature Sensors, will launch in January 2026. These titles will offer new avenues for research publication in evolving and expanding areas such as health research and applied science, increasing knowledge around some of the critical priorities facing us in the world.

In a post-pandemic era where greater emphasis is being placed on a more resilient global health care system, Nature Health will seek to champion interdisciplinary research centred around the protection and promotion of health and disease prevention. The journal will aim to breakdown silos and to facilitate discoveries and discussions, by connecting researchers, healthcare professionals, innovators, policy makers, and the public. Ultimately, the aim of Nature Health is to identify and publish the best evidence to promote better health for all. The journal will be led by Chief Editor Ben Johnson.

Nature Sensors will be the first selective multidisciplinary journal focused on sensors and sensing systems. With sensors playing an ever-growing role in our modern lives, the upcoming journal will showcase the exciting advancements in the field, whilst having a strong focus on societal applications. Essential to this, is the promotion of cross-community interaction and engagement within the applied sciences and engineering space, which the journal hopes to achieve. Nature Sensors’ Chief Editor is Olga Bubnova.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the Nature journals’ new launches program, which began in 2015. Over the past decade, the program has successfully introduced a variety of new journals, covering a wide range of research areas. These journals cater to diverse communities, address global challenges, and influence policy.

Like all Nature-branded journals, the new launches are managed by a team of professional editors. They ensure meticulous selection, commissioning, fair and rigorous peer-review, precise editing, rapid publication, and broad dissemination of both commissioned and proposed content. Nature Health and Nature Sensors will be hybrid journals, both are open for submissions.

Wiley position statement on illegal scraping of copyrighted content by AI developers

May 7, 2025

At Wiley, we champion the value of intellectual property and the creators behind it. As pioneers in knowledge creation and dissemination for over two centuries, we are committed to ensuring that authors’ works are respected and properly licensed in the evolving digital landscape. Collaboration between authors, scientific and scholarly societies, and AI developers ensures responsible use of AI to advance research and discovery while preserving the academic freedom that is essential to scholarly progress.

We reaffirm this position. We believe in the transformative potential of AI to advance research and discovery. This progress must be built on a foundation of respect for intellectual property rights including agreed compensation and attribution for content creators. We stand firmly alongside our authors and publishing partners in calling for ethical and legal data sourcing practices within the AI industry and encourage industry-wide adoption of proper licensing practices as some AI developers have. 

To be clear:

AI developers and companies must obtain authorization before using Wiley content, or content we publish for our partners, for AI development, training, or implementation.
Wiley has consistently and publicly reserved all rights in our copyrighted materials; no implied permission exists absent a proper license.
Transparent attribution and data provenance are essential components of ethical AI development.

To demonstrate our commitment to responsible innovation, we have developed licensing frameworks that offer flexible, fair terms tailored to different use cases and development needs.

There have been numerous well-publicized agreements between AI developers and STM and trade publishers, including our own successful licensing agreements with AI developers who share our commitment to ethical content use. These clearly demonstrate that an AI licensing market exists and is functioning effectively.

This licensing market also creates pathways to ground AI in authoritative content. This active collaboration with the AI community includes building expectations and standards into agreements for transparency, citation, attribution, and data provenance, to foster user trust in AI systems.

Through partnerships with authors, publishing partners, researchers, and ethical AI developers, we can create a sustainable ecosystem that values both technological advancement and the uniquely human contributions of authors and researchers.

Wiley Announces Collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Integrate Scientific Content into Life Sciences AI Agents

May 7, 2025

Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers and a trusted leader in research and learning, today announces a new collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch a generative AI agent for scientific literature search on AWS. The first of its kind from a publisher on AWS, the AI agent will be unveiled at the 7th annual AWS Life Sciences Symposium in New York City on May 6. The AI agent will demonstrate how researchers can conduct comprehensive full-text scientific literature search across Wiley’s extensive journal content, moving beyond traditional abstract-only searches to access detailed content within main sections like methods and results.

The new Wiley literature search agent is available as part of an open source toolkit for healthcare and life sciences agents that has been assembled by AWS. The toolkit offers a catalog of starter agents and an orchestration framework for organizations to build and customize their agentic systems, supporting use cases from biomarker discovery to clinical trial protocol generation. The new AI agent currently includes AI searchable access to articles under the creative commons license, such as Cancer Medicine, delivering reliable and cited insights in minutes rather than the current hours- to days-long manual process of discovering and perusing dozens of articles for relevant information.

“Our collaboration with AWS demonstrates how researchers can access and leverage scientific literature to power more effective discovery across the life sciences sector,” said Josh Jarrett, SVP and GM of AI Growth for Wiley. “By integrating Wiley’s authoritative full-text content into AWS’s technology built on Bedrock Agents, we’re showcasing the potential of comprehensive literature search to accelerate innovation and bring critical scientific insights directly into researchers’ existing workflows.”

“We’re excited to work with Wiley to explore how AI-powered agents can enrich evidence-based research with dynamic, detailed, and verifiable scientific content,” said Dan Sheeran, General Manager, Healthcare and Life Sciences, AWS. “The cure for cancer isn’t going to come from an abstract, but will be derived from researchers interrogating and synthesizing internal and external data. This collaboration demonstrates how customized AI agents with trusted information sources like Wiley’s research content can enable life sciences researchers to build these more powerful and informed discovery systems.”

Wiley’s development of this AI agent demonstrates the company’s commitment to building innovative AI solutions while maintaining responsible AI practices through established core principles focusing on the importance of human oversight, transparency, attribution, fairness, and appropriate governance.

Duke University Press to publish open access monographs through MIT Press’s Direct to Open (D2O)

May 7, 2025

The MIT Press is proud to announce that beginning in 2026, Duke University Presswill join our Direct to Open (D2O) program. This collaboration marks the first such partnership with another university press for the D2O program, and reaffirms our shared commitment to open access publishing that is ethical, equitable, and sustainable.

Launched in 2021, D2O is the MIT Press’s bold, innovative framework for open access monographs that shifts publishing from a solely market-based purchase model where individuals and libraries buy single eBooks, to a collaborative, library-supported open access model.

Duke University Press brings their distinguished catalog in the humanities and social sciences to Direct to Open, providing open access to 20 frontlist titles annually alongside the MIT Press’s 80 scholarly books each year. Their participation in the D2O program—which will also include free term access to a paywalled collection of 250 key backlist titles—enhances the range of openly available academic content for D2O’s library partners.

“By expanding the Direct to Open model to include one of the most innovative university presses publishing today, we’re taking a significant step toward building a more open and accessible future for academic publishing,” said Amy Brand, Director and Publisher of the MIT Press. “We couldn’t be more thrilled to be building this partnership with Duke University Press. This collaboration will benefit the entire scholarly community, ensuring that more books are made openly available to readers worldwide.”

“We are honored to participate in MIT Press’s dynamic and successful D2O program,” said Dean Smith, Director of Duke University Press. “It greatly expands our open access footprint and serves our mission of making bold and transformational scholarship accessible to the world.”

With Duke University Press’s involvement in 2026, D2O will feature multiple package options, combining content from both the MIT Press and Duke University Press. Participating institutions will have the opportunity to support each press individually, providing flexibility for libraries while fostering collective impact.

For details on how your institution might participate in or support Direct to Open, please visit mitpress.mit.edu/D2O or contact the MIT Press library relations team at mitp-library-relations@mit.edu.