AAAS statement in response to NIH public access policy - September 26, 2025
AAAS has submitted comments to the National Institutes of Health regarding its July 2025 proposal on ‘Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs.’ In its comments, AAAS commends NIH for tackling the rise in article processing charges (APCs) that scientific journal publishers now… Read More
NISO opens draft revision of KBART Phase III for public comment - September 26, 2025
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released a draft revision of the Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (KBART) Phase III Recommended Practice (NISO RP-9-202X) for public comment through November 10, 2025. KBART, first introduced in 2010, provides a standard for transferring holdings metadata from content providers… Read More
ResearchGate partners with Maximum Academic Press on Journal Home integration - September 26, 2025
ResearchGate has formed a new Journal Home partnership with Maximum Academic Press (MAP), expanding access to a selection of MAP’s gold open access titles. Founded in 2020, MAP has launched 38 journals in five years, covering disciplines such as agriculture, biology, environmental sciences, medicine,… Read More
Brent Gordon to Head Elsevier’s Healthcare Education Business - September 25, 2025
Elsevier has named Brent Gordon as President of its global Healthcare Education unit, which delivers nursing, health, and medical education content via digital learning platforms and serves over 10 million learners worldwide. In addition to leading Elsevier’s Nursing & Health Education division, Gordon will now drive innovation… Read More
Wolters Kluwer launches UpToDate® Expert AI for clinical decision support - September 25, 2025
Wolters Kluwer Health has introduced UpToDate® Expert AI, a generative-AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool for doctors and healthcare systems. Positioned as the next stage of UpToDate, it delivers rapid, GenAI-generated answers grounded in UpToDate’s expert-authored, peer-reviewed content. Responses include one-click views of underlying… Read More
SPIE joins scientific societies in letter on federal grantmaking order - September 25, 2025
SPIE has joined more than 50 scientific societies in a letter to the United States Congress expressing concern about provisions in the August 7, 2025 Executive Order (EO) ‘Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking’. The societies urged congressional leaders to provide oversight to federal science agencies to ensure… Read More
