Southeast Asian Libraries Pioneer ESG Literacy Initiative
Cambodian Librarians Association partners with CamEd Business School and international universities for a 2026 ESG reading contest targeting emerging markets.
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Category: Academic and specialist publishing
UK – Edinburgh University Press Acquires Agenda Publishing, And I’m Excited
EUP acquires Agenda Publishing, strengthening its academic portfolio in economics and politics. A strategic move for the award-winning Scottish university press.
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Academic Publishers Win Another Anti-Trust Law Suit
US federal judge dismisses antitrust lawsuit against Elsevier, Springer Nature and other major academic publishers, ruling that industry practices do not constitute illegal collusion under Sherman Act.
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Qatar University Book Fair Expands Academic Publishing Reach
Qatar University Book Fair 2026 brings 45 publishers, nine international university presses, showcasing Gulf region’s growing academic publishing market opportunities.
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Australasian Universities Strike Transformative OA Deal with Taylor & Francis
Landmark three-year open access agreement between Australasian universities and Taylor & Francis transforms publishing from 2026.
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China – Unlocking History Through Verse: Ancient Poetry Illuminates Ecological Decline in the Yangtze
“Poetry isn’t just art – it’s a dialogue with our past, urging us to restore balance.”
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Springer Nature’s Curie: an example of how AI is transforming the publishing industry not by stealing jobs but by creating new opportunities while improving quality
Curie, an AI-powered scientific writing assistant tailored for researchers, especially those for whom English is not a first language.
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OUP terminates US jobs, but no, AI was not to blame, so no-one will be shedding tears. Business is business!
AI not to blame? Hence the deafening silence from the industry sidelines.
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While trade publishers are scared to get off the AI fence, Wiley seeks more lucrative deals. Trade CEOs, wake up and smell the coffee!
With more access to trade content for training, LLMs can become more efficient in the trade sectors where it currently lags behind, opening up new revenue streams and potentially new and transformative concepts yet to be explored.
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Macmillan Education launches AI tool for teachers
But unless teachers understand prompting they are likely to not get the best from AI and offer negative feedback, so this could backfire spectacularly. I’d like to know more about how teachers are going to be trained to use AI effectively.
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69% of Oxford University Press (OUP) revenues come from digital
Memo to Markus Dohle: that’s ever so slightly more than 20%. The OUP annual report and among...
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More phones than people
April 3 marked the 50th anniversary of a momentous phone call. “On April 3, 1973, Motorola...
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