COAR Notify now available for ePrints repositories - August 13, 2025
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) has announced that the COAR Notify functionality is now available to ePrints users. With the implementation of COAR Notify, ePrints repositories will be able to link articles with related resources, like datasets or peer reviews, that live on other COAR… Read More
INRS joins ORCID Canada Consortium - August 13, 2025
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network has announced that the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has joined the ORCID Canada Consortium, becoming the first Université du Québec institution to participate. The national initiative includes more than 50 Canadian universities, research institutions, and funding… Read More
Knowledgespeak Editorial – Peer Review Under Siege: Confronting Manipulation in Scholarly Publishing - August 12, 2025
Scholarly publishing is facing a mounting threat—not from flawed science, but from deliberate manipulation of the systems meant to safeguard it. Last week’s findings from Frontiers, which uncovered a peer-review manipulation network affecting 122 articles across five journals, should be viewed less as an isolated incident and more as an… Read More
Durban University of Technology hosts Elsevier Future Research Symposium - August 11, 2025
Elsevier, a global publisher in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), collaborated with the Durban University of Technology (DUT) Library and the Research and Postgraduate Support Directorate to convene the regional Future Research Symposium. The annual event aims to equip researchers with knowledge and… Read More
CABI and Agricultural Research Council sign three-year publication agreement - August 11, 2025
CABI, a not-for-profit scientific research and publishing organization, has entered into a three-year publication agreement with South Africa’s Agricultural Research Council (ARC). The arrangement covers author fees in full for publishing in CABI’s open access journals and includes read access to several additional publications. The agreement enables… Read More
PLOS outlines measures in response to PNAS study on peer review integrity - August 11, 2025
PLOS has issued a statement in response to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that examined the scale of paper mill operations and peer review manipulation across scholarly publishing. The analysis, which used openly available articles, identified coordinated misconduct patterns such… Read More
