WMU Libraries releases 2024 survey on open access publishing - September 22, 2025
Western Michigan University Libraries has released results from its 2024 Open Access Publishing Survey, led by Professors Michele Behr and Ed Eckel, examining experiences with open access publishing among Western faculty, staff, and graduate students. The survey had 192 responses collected from October through… Read More
IOP survey highlights polarization on generative AI use in peer review - September 15, 2025
A global survey by IOP Publishing (IOPP) has found increasing polarization among reviewers in the physical sciences on the use of generative AI in peer review. The study follows a similar survey conducted last year which showed that while some researchers… Read More
BMJ Future Health Commission highlights digital health expectation gap - September 10, 2025
A new report from the BMJ Future Health Commission, a collaboration between BMJ Group and DNV, finds that healthcare professionals (HCPs) remain unconvinced that digital technologies are delivering the promised productivity and efficiency gains. Survey results from more than 300 healthcare… Read More
Taylor & Francis survey backs transparent peer review pilot - September 5, 2025
The European Journal of Higher Education (EJHE), published by Taylor & Francis, has released the results of a two-year pilot aimed at enhancing transparency in the peer review process. The findings reveal widespread support from both authors and reviewers for the journal’s transparent peer… Read More
Jisc and UUK call for reform of shared services in higher education - September 5, 2025
The Universities UK (UUK) commissioned report led by Jisc has outlined recommendations to improve the use of shared services across UK higher education. While long-standing examples such as UCAS and Jisc’s Janet Network are widely adopted, many others remain underused because of limited awareness,… Read More
Study examines equity in blinded versus unblinded peer review - August 18, 2025
A new large-scale field study has examined whether keeping author identities hidden during peer review makes the process more equitable. The work, led by Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences professor Tim Pleskac with collaborators Ellie Kyung (Babson College), Gretchen Chapman (Carnegie Mellon University), and Oleg Urminsky (University of… 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
Supplementary formats significantly increase article readership in Taylor & Francis medical journals - August 7, 2025
An internal analysis conducted by Taylor & Francis indicates that medical journal articles incorporating supplementary content formats—referred to as “extenders”—receive significantly higher viewership compared to articles without them. The study found that articles enhanced with extenders had 144% more views on average. Extenders are supplementary digital tools… Read More
NISO publishes findings from AI in discovery systems survey - August 6, 2025
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released the results of a 2024 survey on artificial intelligence in web-scale library discovery services. The report, titled 'Generative Artificial Intelligence and the NISO Open Discovery Initiative,' was developed by the NISO Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) Standing… Read More
Delta Think survey highlights global impact of US research funding cuts - August 6, 2025
Delta Think partnered with 27 professional societies and associations to launch a Global Author/Researcher Survey. The survey has revealed growing concern among researchers over the long-term consequences of US government research funding cuts, with responses from over 13,000 researchers across 135 countries highlighting potential shifts in publishing,… Read More
