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Weekly News Digest
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March 31, 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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New Sponsors Join the Kudos Zero-Click and AI Search Study
Kudos added more sponsors to its fast-track research initiative, Taming the Crocodile: AIP Publishing, IEEE, Clarivate, and Cactus Communications. “[T]he phase I scope has been expanded to include publisher and librarian surveys that will explore and benchmark actions being taken in response to AI-generated overviews on search engine result pages and AI chat tools,” Kudos co-founder Charlie Rapple shares. “The library survey will provide insights into the effect of zero-click search on user behaviour and training, usage of library resources, and librarians’ concerns and decisions in relation to AI adoption by users. The publisher survey will explore the effect of AI overviews on content usage, and the nature/pace of publisher responses. This will provide publisher sponsors with anonymised, aggregate benchmarking data against which to gauge their own progress.” A survey of end users is planned and will be included in the full project report. For more information, read the blog post.
HARRASSOWITZ Partners With the Purchase to Open OA Funding Model
HARRASSOWITZ teamed up with the Purchase to Open (P2O) initiative, “a collaborative funding model that brings together libraries, publishers, and booksellers to make high-quality scholarly books openly accessible. By combining established acquisition workflows with a community-based pledging scheme, P2O allows libraries to support the open access publication of individual titles in a transparent and efficient way.” P2O titles are now part of Fokus, HARRASSOWITZ’s scholarly resource acquisition and management system. For more information, read the press release.
ASTM International Adds BSI Standards to Its Database
ASTM International partnered with the British Standards Institution (BSI) to make BSI standards available on the ASTM Compass standards database. “ASTM Compass access to BSI standards empowers technical teams to reduce error and speed up design cycles while ensuring compliance with global industry and regulatory expectations,” the press release states. “BSI offers standards in fields ranging from construction and ICT to manufacturing, transport, energy, and healthcare. …”For more information, read the press release.
BiblioCommons Further Brings Its BiblioApps Into the Patron Experience
BiblioCommons is updating BiblioApps to ensure they are “the most direct way for patrons to connect with everything the library offers, delivering a unified, personalized experience that brings together discovery, events, account management, and engagement in a single place.”They will prioritize more relevant content, timely interactions, personalization, and more, offering what BiblioCommons calls the “One-Click Experience.” “It means reducing friction at every step by making it possible to log in with a single click, explore the full breadth of the library from one screen, discover all offerings in one place, and read or engage within a single app. This vision continues to guide the development of the BiblioCommons platform, now extending more fully into mobile,” the company shares. For more information, read the news item.
Wikipedia Shares Its Stance on AI-Written Articles
Emmanuel Abara Benson writes the following in “Wikipedia Draws the Line on AI-Written Articles Amid Quality Concerns” for ImpactNews: Wikipedia has taken a decisive step in the growing global debate over artificial intelligence and content creation, introducing new rules that restrict how AI can be used on its platform. The new policy, recently added to Wikipedia’s editorial guidelines, effectively bans the use of AI tools to write or rewrite article content. However, the platform stopped short of a complete prohibition, allowing limited use of AI in specific, tightly controlled scenarios. For more information, read the article.
Clarivate Rolls Out the AI50 Organizational Benchmark
Clarivate released The Clarivate AI50, “a new data-driven benchmark of organizations demonstrating exceptional leadership in high-impact artificial intelligence (AI) inventions.” They include Alibaba, Alphabet, ByteDance, Huawei, IBM, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and Tencent; 80% of the organizations are headquartered in Mainland China, the U.S., South Korea, and Japan. “Government and academic research organizations form a substantial portion of the cohort, highlighting the central role of publicly funded research in advancing AI fundamentals,” Clarivate notes.For more information, read the press release.
Jewish Currents Magazine Joins Exact Editions
Exact Editions now offers the Jewish Currents magazine for institutional subscription. “Archival issues stretching back to 2018, as well as all ongoing issues, are now seamlessly available to libraries worldwide across web, iOS and Android devices by subscription,” Exact Editions states. “Featuring in-depth reporting, trenchant analysis, and rigorous cultural criticism alongside reviews, fiction, visual art and poetry, the publication has cemented its position as a leading title for the Jewish-American left.” For more information, read the press release.
Altmetric Attention Digest Uses AI to Analyze Research Impact
Altmetric, part of Digital Science, released a new AI-powered feature for clearly communicating research impact, Altmetric Attention Digest. It “streamlines the process of demonstrating research value by automatically generating concise, narrative summaries of a research output’s attention and influence,” Digital Science notes. “This capability moves beyond simply quantifying mentions—it provides a deeper understanding of who’s engaging with the research, how it’s being received, and the nature of its real-world impact across diverse channels.”Altmetric Attention Digest is available to users of Altmetric Explorer. For more information, read the blog post.
JMIR Publications Signs an Unlimited OA Publishing Agreement With the University of Nevada–Las Vegas
JMIR Publications entered into a flat-fee, unlimited open access (OA) publishing agreement with the University of Nevada–Las Vegas for articles accepted for publication between March 1, 2026, and Feb. 28, 2027. “[T]his partnership replaces individual Article Processing Charges (APCs) with a single Institutional Publishing Fee (IPF). The agreement is designed to reduce the administrative workload for library staff, eliminate financial obstacles for researchers, and ensure research findings are available via immediate open access in one of JMIR Publications’ more than 30 journals,” the announcement shares.For more information, read the announcement.
EBSCO and the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Introduce a Journals Resource
EBSCO Information Services joined with the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals to launch the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals with Full Text resource for architecture and design researchers and students, which was produced in collaboration with the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. This full-text database “combines the rich metadata of all citation-only records from Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals with the addition of more than 200 high-quality, full-text journals.” Subject areas in the resource include the history of architecture, urban design, historic preservation, landscape architecture, and sustainable design.For more information, read the press release.
Kanopy Gains Access to NASA+ Content
Kanopy joined forces with NASA to make NASA+ available to its users. NASA+ is “NASA’s official home for documentaries, educational series, and exclusive content, free through the All Access NASA+ collection.” The partnership includes “streaming access to NASA+’s new episodic series, Moonbound, which documents the Artemis II test flight, the next step in NASA’s ambitious plans to return humans to the Moon. The series takes viewers behind the scenes of the mission, from preparation to crew insights, with two episodes already available on Kanopy.”For more information, read the blog post/press release.
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