COAR survey highlights disruption caused by AI bots in open repositories - April 30, 2025
Open repositories are experiencing increasing disruption from AI bots and other automated crawlers. These bots, which are growing in number and frequency, often exhibit aggressive behavior that can result in system slowdowns and service outages. In response, some repositories have resorted to restricting machine access to their collections. However, these… Read More
Unbound Medicine adds AI-powered Assist tool to uCentral platform - April 30, 2025
Unbound Medicine has announced the introduction of Assist™ to its uCentral™ medical platform. Developed using Unbound Intelligence™, which integrates human expertise with artificial intelligence, the Assist tool provides customizable digital support for both clinicians and medical librarians. The feature is designed to facilitate the retrieval of clinical… Read More
Wolters Kluwer integrates patient education content into UpToDate Enterprise Edition for Epic EHR users - April 28, 2025
Wolters Kluwer Health announced that select UpToDate® Enterprise Edition customers now have access to UpToDate patient education materials directly within the Epic electronic health record (EHR) and MyChart patient portal. This integration enables health systems to streamline patient education and clinical… Read More
Taylor & Francis journals in collective funding pilot transition to full open access - April 28, 2025
Taylor & Francis has announced that both journals participating in its Collective Pathway to Open Publishing (CPOP) pilot will transition to full open access (OA) for 2025. Launched in November 2024, CPOP was developed as an alternative OA model for Humanities and Social Sciences… Read More
SSP reaffirms commitment to diversity and inclusion in scholarly publishing - April 28, 2025
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), a founding member of the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC), has reaffirmed its commitment to the coalition’s mission and principles. This reaffirmation comes amid ongoing challenges that impact academic freedom, federal research funding, the… Read More
University of North Dakota expands open access publishing through read and publish agreements - April 28, 2025
The University of North Dakota (UND) is facilitating broader access to scholarly research by entering into read and publish agreements with several academic publishers. These agreements allow UND-affiliated authors to publish open access articles without incurring individual article processing charges (APCs), as the associated costs are covered… Read More
