Knowledge equity, diversity, global-south inclusion

DORA, FORCE11, CoARA and ALLEA convened funders, publishers and universities in Singapore to compare Asia-Pacific approaches to research-assessment reform.

Chile’s ANID is extending its 2022 Open Access Policy across every instrument it funds in 2026, backed by a new EspacioCiencia repository service and renewed InES Ciencia Abierta capacity funding. Here’s what the mandate actually requires.

Kenya launched a 2026-2036 research-financing masterplan and the Grand Challenges Kenya fund to close its R&D spending gap and cut aid reliance.

Clarivate’s 2026 Journal Citation Reports gave 521 journals a Journal Impact Factor for the first time, from 47 countries/regions, with 58% based outside the US and Western Europe — part of a multi-year geographic-diversification trend research offices should track.

AfriGen-D, a pan-African human genomics data hub, launched May 7, 2026, led by UCT, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, and University of Mauritius.

Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council approved the National Intellectual Property Policy and Strategy (NIPPS) on November 6, 2025, and the government launched implementation on December 17, 2025. Here is what the framework actually changes for university IP commercialization and technology transfer offices.

AGU’s 2024 authorship update asks researchers to name local collaborators as co-authors, not just acknowledgments. Here is what changed and why it matters.

CAPES and Springer Nature have signed a three-year transformative agreement (Jan 2026-Dec 2028) giving authors at 400+ Brazilian institutions APC-free open-access publishing in 1,730+ hybrid journals and reading access to 1,770+ titles.

CAUL reached in-principle 2026 open-access deals with Taylor & Francis, Springer Nature, Wiley, and, after stalled November talks, Elsevier.

CRediT taxonomy translations now cover 35+ languages via a community project, not an official NISO release — what it means for non-English journals.

Between late 2025 and early 2026, arXiv tightened endorsement (no more institutional-email-only qualification), required full English-language versions of every submission, and began requiring documented prior peer review for CS literature surveys and position papers after a flood of AI-generated submissions.

2025 bibliometric studies show women’s senior- and corresponding-authorship share still lags first-authorship gains, with implications for research policy.

The 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access (Bengaluru, Feb 2026) produced a six-pillar global roadmap for OA policy, funding, and evaluation reform.

Wellcome revises grant eligibility from 1 July 2026 and restricts lead-applicant hosts to the UK and LMICs in Africa, South and SE Asia from 29 October 2026.

Springer Nature reports nearly 40% of citations to China’s 2022 gold OA articles now come from outside China, while a separate June 2026 announcement puts its EU open-access agreement coverage at 74% of member states, including renewed Czechia, Greece, and Finland deals.

cOAlition S’s Strategy 2026-2030 widens accepted open-access routes beyond Plan S’s original three, deferring rule changes to a 2026-2027 review.

Congress rejected the White House’s FY2026 proposal to eliminate the Fogarty International Center, funding NIH’s global health research arm at $95 million — flat with FY2025. Here’s the current status.

A practical four-week implementation plan for a library-run CRediT helpdesk, with staffing, materials, workflows, and the first-month playbook.

Latin America’s Diamond OA infrastructures have run a successful model for two decades. What the rest of the world is finally learning from SciELO, Latindex, and AmeliCA.

Plan S compliance, Diamond OA’s rise, S2O models, Read-and-Publish agreements, and the slow rebalancing of who pays for global scholarly publishing.