RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NEWS
WILEY TOPS 125 GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONAL AGREEMENTS
Wiley has signed more than 125 transformational agreements with library consortia and institutions worldwide, expanding its global read-and-publish footprint and supporting the publication of more than 95,000 open access articles, the company announced.
The agreements now cover more than 3,500 institutions across 45 countries, reflecting the rapid acceleration of read-and-publish models in recent years. Wiley said it has invested in technology, training, and research infrastructure to improve the author experience, safeguard research integrity, and enhance the discoverability of peer-reviewed content. These recurring-revenue agreements are designed to provide institutions with broad read access while removing financial barriers for individual researchers to publish open access.
Source - Research Information
INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE 2026 (IP&MC2026). WUHAN. CHINA. 30/10/26 - 01/11/26
The Information Processing & Management Conference 2026 (IP&MC2026), 30 October-1 November 2026, Wuhan, China, Wuhan, China, will be held under the theme ‘Documents to Dialog and Retrieval to Reasoning: Reimagining the Computational Information Sciences in the Age of AI and Large Language Models’.Conference topics:
All accepted conference submissions are automatically eligible for submission to the related special issues in Information Processing & Management and Data and Information Management journals.
Manuscript submission opening date: January 2026
Manuscript submission deadline: 31 July 2026
Author notification deadline: ongoing with manuscripts – final notification 5 August 2026
Author registration deadline: 14 August 2026
Early booking deadline: 14 August 2026
Source - Elsevier
OPENAI RELEASED PRISM, FREE AI-FRAMEWORK FOR RESEARCH
OpenAI unveiled Prism (https://openai.com/index/introducing-prism/), a free AI workspace for scientists designed for writing and collaborating on research, powered by the company's most advanced model, GPT-5.2.
The platform is available to all users with a personal ChatGPT account. Prism unifies scientific writing, editing, collaboration, and publication preparation into a single cloud-based workspace with LaTeX support.
The platform allows researchers to communicate with GPT-5.2 Thinking to explore ideas and solve scientific problems, compose documents with full context, search and incorporate relevant literature, manage equations and citations, convert equations from a whiteboard to LaTeX, collaborate in real time, and use voice editing.
Source - OpenAI
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS 2026 BY THE BRITISH ACADEMY
The International Fellowships programme provides support for outstanding early career researchers to make a first step towards developing an independent research career through gaining experience across international borders. Each award is expected to involve a specific and protected research focus with the award holder undertaking high quality, original research. This scheme is jointly run by the British Academy and the Royal Society.
Visit the page to find out more details.
Source - The British Academy
CLARIVATE REVEALS TOP 100 GLOBAL INNOVATORS 2026
Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, announced the 15th edition of its Top 100 Global Innovators. This annual benchmark celebrates the organizations that consistently deliver high-impact inventions, shaping the future of innovation across industries. The 2026 report reveals how innovation leadership is shifting from scale to precision, and how artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating this transformation.
To introduce with the list, press here
Source - Clarivate
HOW DO NEW WORDS GET ADDED TO THE CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY
Every year, thousands of new words, from viral slang to tech jargon, are added to the Cambridge Dictionary, the world’s most popular online dictionary for learners of English.
In August 2025, the Cambridge Dictionary announced that over 6,000 words had been added in the past year, including slang words such as skibidi, delulu, tradwife, broligarchy, and lewk. And in June 2025, a new AI-related definition of slop was added to the Cambridge Dictionary.
How does a word go from casual conversation or an online trend to official recognition in the Cambridge Dictionary?
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Source - Cambridge University Press
DECLARING FUNDING SOURCES FOR RESEARCH
Sources of funding for research must be declared by authors during submission in the form of a funding statement. Funding statements must include details of the funding sources, specify which authors and activities were supported, and follow the requirements of journals and funding agencies.
The COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) has recently launched guidance for authors, editors, and publishers on best practices for reporting funding statements in research publications. It explains why declaring funding sources is essential for transparency, compliance with journal and funder requirements, and identifying potential conflicts of interest.
To download the guidance, press here.
Source - COPE
CLARIVATE REMOVED 128 JOURNALS FROM WEB OF SCIENCE CORE COLLECTION IN 2025
In the year 2025, Clarivate expunged 128 scholarly journals from the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection, an excision that transversed the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)..
Clarivate regularly evaluates journals to ensure they meet its editorial quality, publishing standards, and ethical requirements. In 2025, journals were removed due to three main reasons:
Editorial De-listing: Journals were re-evaluated and didn’t meet the quality criteria and hence were removed from the Web of Science Core Collection.
Production De-listing: Journals were removed from the Web of Science Core Collection due to the non-receipt of content from publishers.
Cease: Journals were ceased publication and hence no longer covered in the Core collection.
To see the list of removed journals, press here
Source - PhDTalks
CLARIVATE REMOVED 128 JOURNALS FROM WEB OF SCIENCE CORE COLLECTION IN 2025
In the year 2025, Clarivate expunged 128 scholarly journals from the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection, an excision that transversed the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)..
Clarivate regularly evaluates journals to ensure they meet its editorial quality, publishing standards, and ethical requirements. In 2025, journals were removed due to three main reasons:
Editorial De-listing: Journals were re-evaluated and didn’t meet the quality criteria and hence were removed from the Web of Science Core Collection.
Production De-listing: Journals were removed from the Web of Science Core Collection due to the non-receipt of content from publishers.
Cease: Journals were ceased publication and hence no longer covered in the Core collection.
To see the list of removed journals, press here
Source - PhDTalks
TO BE A PROFESSOR: ACADEMIC MOBILITY AND PUBLISHING PERFORMANCE. ARTICLE.
Many aspiring academics target a professorship, but only some succeed. This study examines academic market concentration and its consequences. The authors analyzed the field of economic sciences over a 22-year period, combining official data on the appointment process with manually collected data on applicants’ publishing performance. Using correlation and linear regression analyses, the authors investigated whether the mobility of candidates for full professorships is related to their research productivity and research visibility.
Source - PLoS