AACN and AONL release new guide on building academic–practice nursing partnerships - December 9, 2025
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) have jointly released a new guide to support the development of effective academic–practice partnerships in nursing. The AACN/AONL Academic Practice Partnership Playbook: From Shared Vision… Read More
Oxford University Press completes acquisition of Karger Publishers - December 5, 2025
Oxford University Press (OUP) and Karger Publishers have confirmed that the acquisition of Karger by OUP, announced in early November, has closed, resulting in Karger now being fully owned by OUP and integrated into the broader OUP organization. The acquisition brings together a shared… Read More
EIFL and Sage renew access and publishing agreement through 2028 - December 5, 2025
EIFL has renewed its agreement with Sage Publishing for access to and publishing in Sage journals for an additional three years, extending through December 2028. The agreement includes free and discounted access to the Sage Premier collection, waived or discounted Article Processing Charges (APCs),… Read More
University of Granada and Cervantes Institute establish collaboration to strengthen scientific publishing in Spanish - December 2, 2025
The University of Granada and the Cervantes Institute have signed an agreement to expand the visibility of scientific and technological research produced in Spanish. The agreement outlines coordinated actions to promote the use of Spanish as a language for academic and scientific communication at national and international… Read More
Kortext and Rialto form partnership to expand access to digital learning content - December 2, 2025
Kortext and Rialto have entered a new collaboration that will make electronic content from Kortext available through the Rialto Marketplace. Under the partnership, Kortext materials will be integrated into Rialto’s referral model to support streamlined discovery and ordering. The arrangement is described as part… Read More
Springer Nature and Research4Life expand access to Protocols.io, boosting open science in 90+ countries - November 28, 2025
Springer Nature and Research4Life have expanded their partnership to provide researchers in more than 90 low-middle-income countries with no-cost or low-fee access to premium features on the protocols.io platform. It gives eligible researchers access to protocols.io through the Research4Life portal, enabling… Read More
Pensoft, ARPHA, and Reviewer Credits launch partnership to strengthen transparency and recognition in peer review - November 27, 2025
Pensoft, together with its publishing platform ARPHA, has announced a partnership with Reviewer Credits aimed at improving the transparency, documentation, and acknowledgment of peer review activity across the scholarly community. Reviewers who create a free account on Reviewer Credits will have… Read More
Ireland’s Technological Universities and Institutes of Technology to gain Emerald journal access through expanded IReL agreement starting 2026 - November 27, 2025
Ireland’s Technological Universities and Institutes of Technology have been confirmed to join IReL’s agreement with Emerald Group Publishing beginning in January 2026, expanding their access to Emerald’s Premier journal collection and enabling unlimited open access publishing in participating journals without publication fees. The institutions included in the… Read More
JMIR Publications joins STM and adopts STM Integrity Hub to strengthen scholarly publishing standards - November 24, 2025
JMIR Publications has announced its membership in the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) and has implemented the STM Integrity Hub to strengthen its research integrity processes. The organization has joined the global STM community to align with collective efforts aimed… Read More
ResearchGate–Compuscript partnership expands global visibility for Biomedical journals - November 21, 2025
ResearchGate and Compuscript have launched a new Journal Home partnership designed to increase the global reach and impact of Compuscript’s peer-reviewed medical, biotechnology and scientific journals. Five biomedical journals from Compuscript will now be accessible to ResearchGate’s community of more than 25 million researcher… Read More
