Frontiers launches Frontiers Science House at Davos to advance global science collaboration - December 3, 2025
Frontiers has announced the launch of the Frontiers Science House, a meeting venue on the Davos Promenade created for participants of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting taking place from 19–23 January 2026. The venue is designed to connect breakthrough scientific… Read More
SSP launches Pulse Check program to track trends in scholarly communications - December 3, 2025
The Society for Scholarly Publishing has introduced Pulse Check, a new polling program designed to gather timely and actionable insights from the scholarly communications community. Each Pulse Check poll will include five to six focused questions supported by optional demographic information to enable deeper segmentation and trend… Read More
Authors Alliance and SPARC publish third white paper on Federal Grants and Institutional IP Policies - December 3, 2025
Authors Alliance and SPARC have released the third white paper in the Legal Pathways to Open Access project. The paper, Federal Grants and Institutional IP Policies, examines the longstanding question of authorship in academic scholarly works and outlines how the issue… Read More
The Company of Biologists renews Read & Publish Open Access agreement with CAAS - December 3, 2025
The Company of Biologists has renewed the five-journal Read & Publish Open Access agreement with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences for an additional three years. Secured with support from regional agent Charlesworth, the agreement covers January 2026 through December 2028 and is available to all 35… Read More
Knowledgespeak Editorial – Metadata at Scale: Why Scholarly Publishing Must Go AI-First - December 2, 2025
In scholarly publishing, the conversation around AI often centers on authorship, peer review, or research acceleration. But one of the most quietly transformative opportunities sits much earlier in the pipeline: metadata. As research outputs become more modular—figures, methods, datasets, protocols, code snippets—granular metadata is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s the… Read More
King Abdulaziz University and Taylor & Francis sign open access publishing partnership - December 2, 2025
King Abdulaziz University and Taylor & Francis have formed a new open access publishing partnership to broaden the global reach of the university’s research programs. The partnership enables authors at King Abdulaziz University to publish open access articles in more than 2,500 journals within… Read More
