DOAJ and CUJS form partnership to support Chinese open access journals - May 15, 2026
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and the Society of China University Journals (CUJS) have announced a new partnership aimed at improving the visibility and discoverability of Chinese open access journals both within China and internationally. As part of the collaboration, DOAJ and… Read More
cOAlition S appoints Curt Rice as Director to lead 2026–2030 Strategy - May 14, 2026
cOAlition S has appointed Curt Rice as its new Director, coinciding with the coalition’s adoption of its 2026–2030 Strategy. The appointment marks a step toward advancing models of open scholarship in the evolving landscape of scholarly communication. Rice has more than three decades of… Read More
OpenAIRE and OPERAS join EOSC Federation as Scholarly Commons Node - May 14, 2026
OpenAIRE and OPERAS have joined the second wave of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Federation as a candidate node, officially recognized by the European Commission and the EOSC Federation. The new EOSC Scholarly Commons Node is intended to integrate scholarly… Read More
Open access status update for SMAI Mathematics journals in 2026 - May 14, 2026
EDP Sciences and the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI) have confirmed that Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena and ESAIM: Probability and Statistics will remain fully open access in 2026 under the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model. Both journals achieved the required level… Read More
ResearchGate and Maximum Academic Press expand Journal Home partnership - May 14, 2026
ResearchGate and Maximum Academic Press (MAP) have expanded their strategic Journal Home partnership, extending the existing agreement to include three additional journals: Grass Research, Medicinal Plant Biology, and Technology in Horticulture. During the first year of participation in Journal Home, MAP journals recorded growth… Read More
Elsevier report highlights nurse exclusion in clinical AI adoption - May 13, 2026
Elsevier’s Clinician of the Future 2026 report, released on International Nurses Day, identifies uneven adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) across clinician groups, with nurses reporting limited involvement in both usage and decision‑making. The findings are presented in the inaugural Clinician of the Future 2026:… Read More
