Annual Reviews expands its event capabilities by acquiring Underline Science, enabling it to support scholarly societies and conference organizers globally. The acquisition combines conference expertise with AR's existing research community engagement, allowing organizations to strengthen stakeholder engagement and reach new audiences.
Knowledge Unlatched, a pioneering open access initiative, is moving to a new home within Annual Reviews organization. This transfer supports one of the most recognized initiatives in open access publishing, enabling thousands of titles to be freely available to readers worldwide.
The review highlights the importance of regulatory frameworks, equity, ethics, accountability, and governance in digital health initiatives. The future of digital health in LMICs may be tied to securing public-private partnerships to address concerns around data safety, confidentiality, and access.
The Annual Review of Public Health has converted to open access, with all articles published under a CC BY license, thanks to the Subscribe to Open program. This move makes the journal's 2020 volume and back volumes freely available for new audiences and contributes to enhanced population health.
The Annual Review of Cancer Biology has converted to open access, making its content freely available worldwide. The move is part of a pilot program called Subscribe to Open, which uses existing library relationships and subscription purchases to convert gated journals to open access.