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Shutterstock.com/Summit Art Creations Frontiers has released new guidance on the use of artificial intelligence across the research publishing process, covering researchers, editors and peer reviewers, and aiming to move beyond binary “allowed / not allowed” policies. The framework sets out practical approaches for the use of AI tools throughout the publication lifecycle, with an emphasis on responsible adoption and the need for policy to evolve alongside current practice.

Shutterstock.com/Gorodenkoff The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has announced a new agreement with Wiley, under which Wiley will operate a significant portion of ASME’s publishing business. The deal covers sales and marketing for ASME’s journals and conference proceedings, as well as the digital collection comprising these publications.

Shutterstock.com/HM TECH Creations Why metadata as infrastructure is now pivotal for e-resources reliability, user trust, and ROI in higher education libraries From OCLC Higher education libraries face a paradox. Digital collections dominate spend, yet students and researchers still encounter broken links, duplicate results, and version confusion. Sometimes the right version is not available through the library’s pathways.

Gaëlle Béquet is Executive Director of the ISSN International Centre ISSN International Centre is now a pivotal player in the organisation and dissemination of information, writes Gaëlle Béquet The year 2025 was a pivotal moment for the ISSN International Centre (CIEPS), combining symbolic celebrations with tangible progress. While commemorating its fiftieth anniversary, the organisation accelerated its strategic transformation under the 2025–2029 Action Plan.

Shutterstock.com/Peshkova JMIR Publications and Jisc have announced the renewal of their Flat-Fee Unlimited Open Access Publishing Agreement for 2026–2027. Since its inception in 2022, the agreement is reported to have removed individual Article Processing Charges (APCs) for researchers at dozens of UK research institutions. In 2025, more than half of all UK research published in JMIR’s journals was APC-free under the model, according to the organisations.

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe outlines the work of United2Act Against Paper Mills, addressing the challenge of paper mills United2Act Against Paper Mills is an international group of stakeholders working collaboratively to address the collective challenge of paper mills in scholarly publishing. Having completed its first phase of work, the initiative is now entering Phase 2, running from 2025 to 2027.

Image: Shutterstock.com/Ikkiae001 Chinese researchers have introduced a new methodology for evaluating medical and life science journals that moves beyond the traditional reliance on journal impact factors, in a development seen as part of wider efforts to strengthen the country’s “academic discourse power”. According to the South China Morning Post two new Dongbi Index journal lists – covering 4,027 medical and 3,064 life science titles – were unveiled in Shanghai on March 21.

Shutterstock.com/Diego Grandi CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE), an initiative supported by the European Commission and a new funding consortium of European national funding agencies and research organisations. Aligned with the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access (2022), the initiative is positioned as a community-led alternative to traditional academic publishing.

Shutterstock.com/naimurrahman21 Taylor & Francis has announced an expansion of its diamond open access (OA) model, Collective Pathway to Open Publishing (CPOP), through new agreements with Jisc in the UK and CAUL in Australasia. Collective support has enabled six additional journals to transition to open access for their 2026 volumes, allowing researchers worldwide to publish without paying article publishing charges (APCs).

Reliable research intelligence depends on more than scale or openness alone, according to a new report from Clarivate and the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). As the volume and complexity of the global scholarly record continues to grow, the report warns that poorly structured or inconsistent data can undermine benchmarking, evaluation and policy decisions.