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July 21, 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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Apollo Art-Collecting Magazine Joins Exact Editions
Exact Editions added the complete archive of Apollo magazine, which dates back to 1925. “The leading monthly magazine is an authority on art collecting, the international art market, and museum exhibitions—widely considered to be one of the world’s most renowned and respected art publications,” Exact Editions shares. “The comprehensive, fully-searchable digital resource features all 1200+ issues of the magazine. Readers can see the development of the publication, from its founding by legendary art dealer Joseph Duveen and Finnish art historian Tancred Borenius, to Denys Sutton’s legendary 25-year stint as editor, to the industry-defining present-day art market reporting.” For more information, read the press release.
Annual Reviews Bolsters Conference Planning With Its Purchase of Underline Science
Annual Reviews acquired Underline Science to expand its event capabilities and its ability to support scholarly societies and conference organizers around the world. “By combining conference capabilities with longstanding engagement across research communities, Annual Reviews can help organizations strengthen engagement with their stakeholders, reach new audiences, and extend the impact of their meetings,” the press release states.“Underline was founded in 2019 to help scholarly organizations deliver outstanding event experiences and extend their reach beyond the walls of a conference venue. Becoming part of Annual Reviews enables those capabilities to have an even greater impact through an organization with long established ties to scholarly communities. The Underline team and operations will remain in place, ensuring continuity for clients,” says Jernej Masnec, CEO of Underline Science. For more information, read the press release.
Research4Life Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
Research4Life reached its 25th anniversary and is marking the occasion with a series of events in Geneva, including the Country Connectors Meeting at the World Health Organization (WHO), the Global Partners Meeting at WIPO, an evening reception hosted by the International Labour Organization, and the Action for Equity Conference.“Research4Life traces its origins to a three-year agreement signed in 2001 between [WHO] and six international scientific publishers. Today, it is a partnership of more than 200 publishers, providing access to over 250,000 journals, books and databases for more than 12,000 institutions across 120 countries and territories,” the press release states. “Alongside expanding access to scholarly literature, the partnership supports researchers throughout the research cycle through training, strengthening local journals and editorial boards, and working with partners across the scholarly publishing ecosystem on topics such as research integrity and open publishing.” For more information, read the press release.
Wiley Joins the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission Consortium
Wiley became a member of the Genesis Mission Consortium, which is “the public-private partnership supporting the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission. … Wiley is the only scientific publisher among the consortium’s members,” the press release shares. “The Genesis Mission is a [DOE] initiative to build the American Science and Security Platform, an AI-driven infrastructure designed to accelerate scientific discovery and harness AI to deliver real-world impact on the most pressing science and technology challenges. Wiley’s participation builds on decades of engagement with the DOE and other federal science agencies on research infrastructure.” Wiley will make its research intelligence tools available to DOE national laboratory researchers. For more information, read the press release.
Kudos Rolls Out the Phase I Results From Its AI-and-Research Study
Kudos published the findings from Phase I of its project Taming the Crocodile, which “reveals that AI has already captured a third of scholarly information-seeking, with many researchers unaware of the extent to which their view of the scientific literature is now AI-mediated.” In addition, “40% wrongly think AI overviews generated on the fly in search engines have been created or curated by a human.” And “[l]ibrarians are noticing the effect of AI discovery on usage of primary sources and are more likely to have seen this as a negative effect (drop in usage rather than increase). While they agree that a decline in usage doesn’t mean a decline in value, usage metrics are still driving purchasing behaviours.”The Phase I report offers “guidance on optimizing content for AI; Phase II of the study will work with the sector to develop best practice around schema and mark up for AI optimization,” Kudos shares. Interested parties can purchase the report alone or as part of a package that includes participation in Phase II. For more information, read the blog post.
Freedom to Read Foundation Appoints a New Executive Director
Sarah Lamdan, executive director of ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, is the new executive director of the Freedom to Read Foundation. Previously, she was a professor of law at City University of New York School of Law; she had a research focus on information access, privacy, and other librarianship-related legal issues.“Her most recent work focused on privacy and access issues related to data analytics companies and platforms. Her book on the topic, Data Cartels (Stanford University Press), was published in 2022,” the Freedom to Read Foundation shares. “[S]he earned her J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law and her M.L.I.S. (with a specialty in legal information) from Emporia State University’s School of Librarian and Information Management. She has lived in New York since 2005, where she worked as a law librarian in several international law firms before returning to legal academia.” For more information, read the news item.
Anthropic Copyright Case Reaches Settlement
Kirsten Korosec writes the following in “Anthropic’s Landmark $1.5B Copyright Settlement Is Approved” for TechCrunch:Anthropic can finally start cutting checks to a group of authors and book publishers that sued the AI lab over copyright infringement. … The payout will deliver $3,000 per work across an estimated 500,000 works, shared among the authors and publishers who hold rights to them. While the settlement is believed to be the largest in the history of U.S. copyright law, many authors and creators still don’t view it as a win. That’s because of how the legal question was resolved. … [T]he ruling didn’t excuse how Anthropic obtained the books in the first place. For more information, read the article.
NEH Announces New Grants for Humanities Projects
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) “announced $41.4 million in grants for 81 humanities projects across the country. These include an online version of Noah Webster’s 1806 and 1828 dictionaries, a new permanent exhibition at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library on Roosevelt’s global influence, and a book about the creation of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and the novel’s reception from publication to the present.”For more information, read the press release.
Clarivate Powers USPTO’s New Trademark Search AI Functionality
Clarivate is supporting the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in rolling out an AI-assisted image search in the Trademark Search public trademark search system. “This new capability allows users to upload and compare images against the U.S. trademark register and has been selected and awarded a contract by the USPTO,” the press release notes. “Using AI-assisted image search technology delivered by Clarivate, the updated USPTO search enables applicants, practitioners, and registrants to upload an image and compare it against the U.S. trademark register to help identify existing similar marks.” For more information, read the press release.
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