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Weekly News Digest
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October 23, 2025 — 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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Springshare Acquires the Pathrise Job-Seeking Resources Platform
Springshare acquired the assets of Pathrise, “an AI-enabled platform that combines job search software, specialized career resources, and personalized mentorship to transform [job-seekers’] path to aspirational employment.” Springshare will integrate the software platform and the mentorship program into its CareerShift division, which helps career services offices and libraries assist students and alumni with their career exploration. The Pathrise co-founders will join the CareerShift management team.For more information, read the blog post/press release.
Wiley AI Gateway Integrates Research With Leading AI Platforms
Wiley introduced Wiley AI Gateway, “the industry’s first AI-native research intelligence platform that provides researchers access to trusted content from world-leading scholarly publishers through a single endpoint.” The company explains, “Unlike closed ecosystems that require researchers to adopt proprietary tools, Wiley AI Gateway prioritizes intentional interoperability, seamlessly integrating scholarly content and data subscriptions with today’s leading AI platforms. Anthropic’s Claude, AWS marketplace, Mistral AI’s Le Chat and Perplexity all connect to the AI Gateway.”For more information, read the press release.
OverDrive Advises Academic Libraries Using Baker & Taylor on Moving Holdings to Libby
OverDrive posted the following in “Navigating Transition: FAQs for Academic Libraries Inquiring to Move Their Holdings to Libby After Baker & Taylor’s Exit”: With Baker & Taylor’s recent announcement that they will cease operations by the end of 2025, academic libraries are looking for an immediate option to fill the void created by B&T’s pending closure. Primarily needing to find a resource to host their digital collections as well as a supplier to meet their campus needs is paramount. … Begin by assessing your institution’s current usage patterns and content requirements. This will help you determine how OverDrive’s offerings can best meet your needs. … As the industry adapts to Baker & Taylor’s departure, OverDrive offers a stable, innovative platform to continue delivering high-quality digital content to your academic community. For more information, read the blog post.
Playaway Showcases Its Latest Collections
Playaway announces in its monthly enewsletter, Between the Lines, that it is offering Dan Brown’s new book, The Secret of Secrets, along with other “high-stakes mysteries [that] blend history, suspense, and intrigue to keep patrons turning pages late into the night.”The company is also promoting its holiday-themed reads, noting, “Celebrate the season with Wonderbook, Playaway, and Launchpad for every tradition. These stories bring joy, meaning, and togetherness to patrons during winter’s most festive moments.” Looking ahead, it also shares titles for Black History Month: “Explore stories that honor Black voices and experiences. This expertly curated collection offers powerful narratives that inspire, educate, and bring communities together all month long and beyond.” For more information, visit the site.
Zendy Explores Information Retrieval in the AI Age
Zendy posted “From Boolean to Intelligent Search: A Librarian’s Guide to Smarter Information Retrieval” on its blog, which states the following:Traditional search still relies on structured logic, keywords, operators, and carefully crafted queries. AI enhances this by interpreting intent rather than just words. Instead of matching text, AI tools for librarians analyse meaning. A researcher looking for ‘climate change effects on migration’ won’t just get papers containing those words, but research exploring environmental displacement, socioeconomic factors, and regional studies. This shift from keyword to context means librarians can spend less time teaching a researcher how to ‘speak database’ and more time helping them evaluate and use the results effectively. For more information, read the blog post.
EBSCO Launches an Archive for Science News Magazine
EBSCO Information Services rolled out the Science News Magazine Archive, which offers “cover-to-cover access to decades of issues of the iconic science and technology magazine, Science News, from its first publication in 1921 to 2010. … Through [a] one-time purchase, libraries will gain perpetual access to the archive.” EBSCO continues, “Science News, published by Society for Science, delivers in-depth coverage of key developments in science, medicine, and technology from the early 20th century through today. Launched as a weekly newsletter and eventually evolving into a monthly magazine, each issue offers a wide array of topics, featuring high-quality writing and compelling imagery.” The company notes, “Through this collection, libraries will be gaining a record of science as it happened. … The Science News Magazine Archive charts the growth of the fields of genetics, radio astronomy and quantum mechanics, and covers all modern computing, the atomic age, the AIDS epidemic and space exploration.” For more information, read the press release.
W3C Gets Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Approved as International Standard
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced that “W3C standard Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 has been approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) - International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Joint Technical Committee (JTC 1) - Information technology as ISO/IEC 40500:2025.”WCAG 2 “focuses on making content more accessible to people with disabilities, including auditory, cognitive, neurological, physical, speech, and visual disabilities. It also covers making content more usable by older users with changing abilities due to aging and improves usability for all users.” For more information, read the press release.
ZDNET Reports on the Latest European Tech Conference
Steven Vaughan-Nichols writes the following in “Europe’s Plan to Ditch US Tech Giants Is Built on Open Source—And It’s Gaining Steam” for ZDNET:Unlike any tech conference I’ve attended in the last few years, the top issue at the 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe at the École Polytechnique Paris was not AI. Shocking, I know. Indeed, OpenInfra Foundation general manager Thierry Carrez commented, ‘Did you notice what I didn’t talk about in my keynote? I made no mention of AI.’ But one issue that did appear—and would show up over and over again in the keynotes, the halls, and the vendor booths—was digital sovereignty. Digital sovereignty is the ability of a country, organization, or individual to control its own digital infrastructure, technologies, data, and online processes without undue external dependency on foreign entities or large technology companies. In other words, Europeans are tired of relying on what they see as increasingly unreliable American companies and the US government. For more information, read the article.
CCC Will Host a LinkedIn Live Event on Responsible AI in Practice
CCC is planning a LinkedIn Live event on Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. Titled Responsible AI in Practice: Navigating Risk, Governance and Copyright, it features Oliver Patel, head of enterprise AI governance at AstraZeneca and author of the forthcoming book Fundamentals of AI Governance, and Roanie Levy, licensing and legal advisor for CCC. They will “unpack the legal, ethical, and commercial stakes of responsible AI development and highlight how copyright intersects with governance and compliance strategies.”For more information, view the event.
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