The Peer-to-Processor Review

Cambridge University Press has reached a 75% OA milestone in 2026, with half its journals now fully open access.

A Scholarly Kitchen guest post frames the evolution of OA publishing through an ecological metaphor — arguing that diamond open access represents a path from parasitism (extractive APC models) to symbiosis (community-owned publishing).

Articul8 AI and ASME have co-developed the first domain-specific generative AI model for mechanical engineering standards — a significant signal of how scholarly societies are beginning to deploy purpose-built AI on their own content corpora.

STM (the global trade body for academic and professional publishers) has formally joined the wave of opposition to the OMB's proposed revisions to Uniform Guidance federal research funding rules.

A new Springer Nature white paper reveals that China's gold open access output is seeing rapid international uptake — nearly 40% of citations to China's 2022 OA articles now come from outside the country.

Retraction Watch's weekend roundup highlights a notable finding: private information appears in 'most' arXiv preprints, raising significant questions about AI training data, privacy, and preprint governance.

The Scholarly Kitchen interviews Annual Reviews CEO Richard Gallagher about the acquisition of Underline Science, an academic video and event platform.

Springer Nature has launched Nature Books, a new imprint extending the Nature brand into long-form book publishing for the first time.

Articul8 AI and ASME have partnered to build the first domain-specific generative AI model trained on mechanical engineering standards.

The European Union's Horizon Europe program has launched the first projects under RAISE (Resource for AI Science in Europe), focusing on building foundation AI models for scientific domains including materials science, agriculture, and climate.

The American Library Association has issued a special report examining how public and academic libraries are developing policies for generative AI use.

A Scholarly Kitchen piece reframes 'Open Science 2.0' around the challenges of AI mediation: open access is necessary but insufficient if AI systems distort, summarize, or misrepresent research.