The Peer-to-Processor Review

A U.S.

University of Virginia has signed on to deploy Elsevier's LeapSpace AI research workspace for its research community, expanding the platform's institutional footprint.

A major new Kudos report based on surveys of 11,500 researchers and 200 librarians reveals that AI now accounts for one-third of scholarly information-seeking.

This Knowledgespeak editorial examines the "AI handoff" problem: as AI becomes the primary interface for research discovery (especially for early-career researchers), publishers risk losing the context and credibility signals embedded in journal pages.

Frontiers' AI venture Senscience has won a 2026 CODiE Award for its FAIR² Data Management system — recognition that positions Frontiers as a publisher actively productizing AI for research data workflows.

Retraction Watch reveals a WhatsApp-based research network of nearly 1,000 members orchestrated by a second-year medical student in Nepal, mass-producing systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and conference abstracts with authorship as a commodity.

A landmark $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and publishers/authors has received final court approval, with individual authors receiving up to $3,000 per work and major publishers receiving tens of millions.

The ALA has formally adopted institutional guidance on AI use in libraries, establishing policy frameworks for AI integration across library services and collections.

The Society for Scholarly Publishing has formally opposed the OMB's proposed revisions to federal research funding rules (Uniform Guidance), joining an unprecedented wave of ~500,000 public comments.

Springer Nature's large-scale survey (10,400+ researchers globally) on AI adoption in research workflows finds significant career-stage divergence — early-career researchers are integrating AI far more deeply than established academics.

A publisher is investigating a peer reviewer who allegedly solicited payment from an author in exchange for manuscript assistance — a form of peer review corruption that sits at the intersection of research integrity and the broader crisis in scholarly publishing's credibility.

A Scholarly Kitchen guest post examines why the systems supporting research — publishing, peer review, funding infrastructure — have failed to keep pace with the expectations placed on them.