4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (410+ words) Springer Nature has updated its editorial policies on the use of artificial intelligence, introducing a framework designed to help researchers, peer reviewers and editors assess when and how AI tools can be used responsibly throughout the research publishing lifecycle. The…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (294+ words) Peer review is fundamental to scholarly publishing. But the system relies overwhelmingly on researchers giving their time and expertise for free – often while publishers struggle to find reviewers and authors wait weeks or months for decisions. Is that model still…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (374+ words) Digital Science has opened applications for its 2026 Catalyst Grant, offering up to £25,000 in equity-free funding for innovative technology ideas supporting the research ecosystem. The theme for this year’s programme is ‘Agentic Workflows You Can Trust’, with the tech company seeking…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (277+ words) The National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan has integrated metadata from its Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) into OpenAlex. Consequently, this initiative makes nearly four million Japanese research outputs freely available to researchers globally. The integration went live on 18 August…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (326+ words) researchinformation.info JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services has launched new workflows to support alt text across its digital collections. The release of the alt text tools allows participating institutions to author, edit, export, and publish descriptive image text directly on the…...