OASPA releases 2025 position paper redefining open access from percentage to participation - November 7, 2025
The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) has released a 2025 position paper expanding its focus on open access from output percentages to broader participation in scholarly communication. Throughout 2025, OASPA launched the 'Next 50%' project, which included the release of a project primer,… Read More
American Physiological Society to take over Function journal publishing operations from Oxford University Press in 2026 - November 7, 2025
The American Physiological Society (APS) has confirmed that it will take over full publishing operations for Function beginning with the 2026 publication year. The transition has marked the journal’s shift from its existing publishing arrangement with Oxford University Press to the American Physiological Society’s… Read More
COAR proposes multilingual semantic search to improve cross-language discovery of research outputs - November 7, 2025
COAR has published a paper presenting a multilingual semantic search approach for scholarly discovery and has opened a feedback period from November 6 to December 19, 2025. The paper has outlined an approach that retrieves information by meaning rather than by exact wording, enabling… Read More
Royal Society launches £1.4 million Science Community Grant to boost hands-on science education in UK schools - November 7, 2025
The Royal Society has launched a new £1.4 million Science Community Grant, funded by The Julia Rausing Trust, to expand practical science education in schools across the UK. The initiative will provide up to £105,000 each to ten selected STEM (Science,… Read More
Heritage University to implement EBSCO-Hosted FOLIO as Washington’s first academic library adopter - November 7, 2025
Heritage University’s Donald K. C. North Library will adopt FOLIO as its next-generation library services platform (LSP), with implementation and hosting support from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). The university will become the first academic institution in Washington to deploy the open-source… Read More
ResearchGate and International Scientific Information partner to expand visibility of open access journals - November 7, 2025
ResearchGate and International Scientific Information Inc. (ISI) have announced a new Journal Home partnership covering ISI’s entire portfolio of open access journals in medicine and healthcare. The agreement will extend the reach of ISI titles on the ResearchGate platform, increasing discoverability… Read More
