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Weekly News Digest
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January 13, 2026 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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The Scholarly Kitchen Looks Back on the First Quarter of the 21st Century
Todd Carpenter, executive director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), writes the following in “Hot Takes on the First Quarter of 21st Century Scholarly Publishing” for The Scholarly Kitchen:With the advent of a more interactive, social web in the mid-2000s, visions of a more interactive publication process circulated. Early, free access to preprints would free scholars from the cumbersome and slow publication process. Building upon this content, new visions of overlay journals would begin to proliferate allowing for alternatives to existing journals. Expectations that the new digital paradigm would introduce greater transparency and open peer review would dominate. The scholarly publishing world certainly has changed a lot in the past twenty-five years, but not always in the ways we might have expected. For more information, read the blog post.
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Brandi Scardilli
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