Frontiers whitepaper reports widespread AI use in peer review and calls for policy updates - December 17, 2025
Frontiers has published a whitepaper reporting that 53% of peer reviewers now use AI tools and outlining the need for publishing policy to adapt. The whitepaper, titled 'Unlocking AI’s untapped potential: responsible innovation in research and publishing,' reports that AI has rapidly become part… Read More
Austrian KEMÖ consortium extends open access publishing agreement with MDPI - December 17, 2025
The Austrian library consortium Kooperation E-Medien Österreich (KEMÖ) has renewed an open access publishing agreement with MDPI, extending the partnership through the end of 2027. The Medical University of Vienna and the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, have joined the agreement… Read More
ResearchGate and SPIE expand Journal Home partnership to cover full open access portfolio - December 17, 2025
ResearchGate and SPIE have announced a Journal Home partnership that will include all of SPIE’s open access journals. The agreement is intended to increase visibility, readership, and author engagement across SPIE’s open access (OA) portfolio. The partnership enables seamless sharing of… Read More
OCLC launches Colombia Discovery Catalog to unify national library resources - December 17, 2025
OCLC has launched the Colombia Discovery Catalog, a national group catalog designed to improve discoverability and sharing of library resources across Colombia. The catalog provides a unified view of collections held by participating libraries and supports access through a single-search interface. More than 40… Read More
AIP Publishing and ACA appoint Mark Wilson as Editor-in-Chief of Structural Dynamics - December 17, 2025
AIP Publishing (AIPP) and ACA: The Structural Science Society (ACA) have appointed Mark Wilson as the new Editor-in-Chief of Structural Dynamics. Wilson is a professor and Associate Department Head of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and brings more than 25… Read More
Knowledgespeak Editorial: Operationalizing Research Integrity in an AI-Driven Publishing Era - December 16, 2025
Research integrity has long been discussed as a matter of principle. Policies, guidelines, and checklists have grown more detailed with every new challenge, from paper mills to manipulated peer review. Yet the pressure facing scholarly publishing today is not a lack of standards. It is the difficulty of enforcing those… Read More
