The Peer-to-Processor Review

Scholarly Kitchen explores what happens to the scholarly content platform when AI agents—not human readers—become

A call to action for the scholarly publishing community to formally recognize AI's growing role in peer review and develop clear, consistent policy frameworks.

The future of scholarly communication will not be determined by how powerful AI becomes, but by whether the research community remains clear about the purpose those capabilities are meant to serve and whether it can govern them together.

UNESCO has launched an Open Science Platform during UN Open Source Week 2026, designed to promote open access to its scientific knowledge and outputs while tracking global progress on open science.

Outgoing SSP President Rebecca McLeod reflects on her "wartime" presidential term at the Society for Scholarly Publishing, describing the challenges and milestones of leading the organization through a period of profound disruption — likely including AI, open access pressures, and federal policy ...

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced two new AI research labs backed by £60 million from EPSRC, strengthening the UK's national AI research capacity.

Springer Nature has announced plans to divest its consumer media holdings — including Scientific American in the US and Spektrum der Wissenschaft in Germany — to focus on its core research, health, and education publishing businesses.

A Cambridge workshop has proposed new standards work to establish provenance, attribution, and metrics for scholarly content used by AI systems.

Elsevier has expanded LeapSpace — its AI-based research workspace — with new agentic capabilities including Writing Coach, Claim Radar, Compare Tables, Extended File Upload, and Reference Export.

The 32nd Beijing International Book Fair saw a notable shift: traditional rights trading giving way to IP licensing for streaming, AI-assisted editorial workflows, and transmedia adaptation.

Rockefeller University Press has partnered with Cashmere — a platform for managing, protecting, and licensing premium content in the AI era — to make its life sciences and biomedicine research available to AI-powered applications.

Jisc and the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC) have released new guidance to help universities and colleges assess and manage the environmental costs of AI adoption.