Nominations open for 2025 ABC International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing - May 2, 2025
The nomination period is now open for the 2025 ABC International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing. The award recognizes one publisher and one project initiative that demonstrate notable contributions to improving the accessibility of e-books and digital publications for individuals who are blind, have low vision, dyslexia, or physical impairments… Read More
Finalists announced for the 2025 EPIC Awards - April 25, 2025
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), an organization dedicated to advancing scholarly communication, has announced the finalists for the inaugural Excellence in Publishing, Information Technology, and Communications (EPIC) Awards. The winners will be revealed during the EPIC Awards Ceremony on May 29, 2025, at SSP’s 47th Annual… Read More
CCC named recipient of 2025 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Award for copyright licensing framework - April 21, 2025
CCC, a US-based organization focused on copyright and licensing, has been selected as a winner in the 2025 Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards for its work on the Annual Copyright License (ACL). The ACL provides enterprise-level licensing for internal use of legally… Read More
American Physical Society receives highest score in SCOAP3 open science evaluation - April 17, 2025
The American Physical Society (APS), a leading publisher in physics research, has achieved the highest score in the first open science assessment conducted by the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3). The Society received 20.18 out of… Read More
Taylor & Francis marks 15 years of STAR access program supporting researchers in resource-constrained countries - April 9, 2025
Taylor & Francis is celebrating 15 years of its Special Terms for Authors and Researchers (STAR) initiative, a unique program providing free access to journal articles for researchers in over 100 countries who are not affiliated with academic institutions or research organizations. Launched to… Read More
ARVO honors inaugural journal achievement award recipients - March 28, 2025
The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) has announced the first-ever recipients of its journal achievement awards, recognizing outstanding contributions in peer review and editorial service across its three journals: Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS), Journal of Vision (JOV), and Translational Vision Science &… Read More
IOP Publishing recognizes outstanding peer reviewers for 2024 - March 24, 2025
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has announced the recipients of its Outstanding Reviewer Awards for 2024, honoring exceptional contributions to the peer review process. These annual awards acknowledge reviewers whose evaluations have demonstrated excellence, reinforcing the importance of peer review in upholding research quality and integrity.… Read More
Emerald Publishing shortlisted for British Book Awards 2025 - March 17, 2025
Academic publisher Emerald Publishing has been shortlisted for Academic, Educational, and Professional Publisher of the Year at the 2025 British Book Awards (Nibbies). The recognition follows a year of major milestones for Emerald, including: • The acquisition of Information Age Publishing, expanding its academic portfolio. • The… Read More
Association of American Publishers announces 2025 PROSE Awards finalists - March 6, 2025
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has announced the 101 finalists and 37 category winners for the 49th Annual PROSE Awards, recognizing excellence in professional and scholarly publishing for works published in 2024. The 37 category winners will now advance to compete for the Awards for Excellence,… Read More
Celebrating the success of Subscribe to Open on Project MUSE: A milestone for open access - March 3, 2025
Project MUSE has announced a major achievement in its quest to advance open access. MUSE’s Subscribe to Open (S2O) initiative has reached its sustainability goal for 2025. This accomplishment will make more than 100 journals’ 2025 volumes, from 27 publishers, openly accessible on the MUSE platform. This… Read More
