The Peer-to-Processor Review

CUP's OA milestone — 75% of 2026 articles and 50% of journals fully OA — is a meaningful structural marker in the ongoing transition of major university presses to open access models.

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).

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.

Springer Nature's new regional white paper highlights China's growing international impact

Choice and Wiley release a report on transformative agreements in US academic libraries, examining how libraries

Eighteen associate editors of Statistics and Computing resign after Springer Nature announces a $3,000 APC

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PLOS CEO Alison Mudditt makes a compelling strategic argument: the AI era doesn't just use open access content — it depends on the trustworthiness signals that good OA practice produces (open data, rich metadata, transparent retraction workflows).