California Digital Library affirms commitment to open research by signing Barcelona Declaration - April 25, 2025
California Digital Library (CDL), a division of the University of California dedicated to advancing digital scholarship, has formally signed the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. Through this action, CDL commits to supporting and participating in the development of open, transparent, and community-governed research… Read More
Finalists announced for the 2025 EPIC Awards - April 25, 2025
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), an organization dedicated to advancing scholarly communication, has announced the finalists for the inaugural Excellence in Publishing, Information Technology, and Communications (EPIC) Awards. The winners will be revealed during the EPIC Awards Ceremony on May 29, 2025, at SSP’s 47th Annual… Read More
Preprints.org launches Reading List feature and community initiatives for World Book Day - April 25, 2025
Preprints.org, a multidisciplinary preprint platform operated by open-access publisher MDPI, has launched a new Reading List feature to coincide with World Book Day 2025. The new feature enables researchers, authors, and readers to curate and share collections of preprint articles—versions of scientific papers that… Read More
JMIR Aging introduces new section on advance care planning for older adults - April 25, 2025
JMIR Aging, an open access journal focused on digital health and aging, has announced the launch of a new section dedicated to “Advance Care Planning for Older Adults.” This addition is intended to provide a platform for research examining how digital health technologies can support older adults… Read More
Science Europe commissions CWTS and Know Center to examine connections between open science and research cultures - April 24, 2025
Science Europe has selected the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University and the Know Center in Graz to conduct a study examining the relationship between open science practices and evolving research cultures. The collaboration follows a public… Read More
PLS and ALCS to support development of UK’s first collective licence for generative AI use - April 24, 2025
Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS) and the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) have confirmed their agreement to support the development of a new collective licence by the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) for the use of text in generative AI applications. The… Read More
