We have been recognized with two awards at the 2026 Society of Scholarly Publishing (SSP) EPIC Awards Celebration, held on 28 May in California.

, our knowledge resource for legal professionals and researchers, has won Gold in two categories: Hosting Platform Features and Branding.

The celebrate the remarkable achievements of individuals and teams who are advancing scholarly publishing through creativity, collaboration, and innovation. The Hosting Platform Features category highlights technical innovations that improve how scholarly content is hosted, accessed, and experienced, while the Branding category recognizes outstanding efforts to build and maintain a strong brand identity in scholarly publishing.

Mirkka Jokelainen, Product Portfolio Manager, said:

鈥淚t鈥檚 incredibly rewarding to see Oxford Law Pro recognised across both platform innovation and branding. These awards reflect the collaboration and commitment of colleagues across OUP and our work with Silverchair and Baxter & Bailey. Our shared focus was to deliver real value to legal researchers and professionals.From the AI Research Assistant through to the product鈥檚 identity and positioning, the goal was to create something that is both highly functional and clearly signals what is unique about what OUP can offer. The SSP EPIC Gold Awards celebrate this work.鈥�

About the platform

Launched last year, Oxford Law Pro听brings together more than 9,000 journal articles and over 600 award-winning, peer-reviewed books from our portfolio of authoritative and timely legal analysis, all on our Oxford Academic platform.听

Oxford Law Pro听is powered by a conversational AI research assistant,听, making legal research more efficient without compromising on accuracy. Unlike generic AI search tools,听Oxford Law Pro听employs retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks specifically tuned for legal content, ensuring responses are grounded exclusively in OUP鈥檚 authoritative materials.

The platform equips legal professionals with tools that match the realities of modern practice, and by reducing time spent on initial source identification, the AI assistant allows them to allocate more time to substantive analysis, strategic thinking, and client service.

For many years, we have served the academic market with legal research materials, developing a reputation for publishing the highest quality research from globally respected authors.听. Backed by our research and workshops, a process supported by legal technology expert Jenifer Swallow, we developed product branding and messaging to both reflect our established reputation and resonate with practitioners who may not have encountered OUP before.听

We worked with design agency Baxter & Bailey to develop a strong, modern visual identity, messaging, and a suite of imagery to bring Oxford Law Pro听补濒颈惫别. Congratulations to all involved for this industry recognition.

Find out more about听.

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We have been named a finalist for two 2026 EPIC Awards, presented by the .听

, our knowledge resource for legal professionals and researchers, has been nominated for consideration in two categories: Hosting Platform Features and Branding.

The Hosting Platform Features category highlights technical innovations that improve how scholarly content is hosted, accessed, and experienced, while the Branding category recognizes outstanding efforts to build and maintain a strong brand identity in scholarly publishing.

About the platform

Launched less that one year ago,听Oxford Law Pro brings together more than 9,000 journal articles and over 600 award-winning, peer-reviewed books from our portfolio of authoritative and timely legal analysis, all on our Oxford Academic platform.听

Oxford Law Pro is powered by a conversational AI research assistant, , making legal research more efficient without compromising on accuracy. Unlike generic AI search tools,听Oxford Law Pro employs retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks specifically tuned for legal content, ensuring responses are grounded exclusively in OUP’s authoritative materials.

The platform equips legal professionals with tools that match the realities of modern practice, and by reducing time spent on initial source identification, the AI assistant allows them to allocate more time to substantive analysis, strategic thinking, and client service.

The branding

For many years, we have served the academic market with legal research materials, developing a reputation for publishing the highest quality research from globally respected authors.听. Backed by our research and workshops, a process supported by legal technology expert Jenifer Swallow, we developed product branding and messaging to both reflect our established reputation and resonate with practitioners who may not have encountered OUP before.听

We worked with design agency Baxter & Bailey to develop a strong, modern logo and colour palette, bold and confident messaging, and a suite of imagery to bring Oxford Law Pro听补濒颈惫别.

Mirkka Jokelainen, Product Portfolio Manager, said:听

“These nominations recognize and reward the combined efforts of colleagues working with Oxford Law Pro over time. It reflects strong execution underpinned by clear direction, a deep understanding of our users and customers, and the ability to carry that insight through to high-quality delivery enriched by OUP expertise at every step.”

The EPIC Awards celebrate teams and individuals in the publishing, information technology, and communications sectors for their significant contributions to scholarly communication through innovation, creativity, and dedication. Winners of the will be announced on 28 May.听

You can find out more about Oxford Law Pro .

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罢丑别鈥�� has reached its goal for renewals and will continue to publish on a Subscribe to Open model, through to at least March 2027.

罢丑别听Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law听is听the leading resource in the field,听containing听peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of international law鈥攁听discipline听which听provides a common legal framework for the鈥痺hole world.

By converting听this听comprehensive, analytical resource听to听an open access,听Subscribe to Open model,听we听have made it possible for students, scholars, practitioners, and governments听worldwide听to access this content freely without financial barriers.鈥�

Subscribe to Open in practice听

罢丑别听Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International听Law听is听OUP鈥檚听first experiment with the Subscribe to Open model – a model听typically applied to journals rather than books. Thanks to the support of our听institutional and library听customers, this valuable content is freely accessible听to all听for a second year.

As a result of the听Subscribe to听Open model, usage of the encyclopaedia has increased听substantially听from听2024 to 2025:

• An increase in usage by 1,291%
• An鈥痠ncrease in usage鈥痜rom low- and middle-income countries鈥痓y听556%听鈥�
• Access from鈥痷sers in听235 鈥痙ifferent鈥痶erritories around the world, an听increase听from 199,听including听all听196 United Nations member states.

Professor Anne Peters, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, and General Editor of听the鈥�Max Planck听Encyclopedia听of Public International Law, said:

鈥淲e are delighted to have this opportunity to听participate听in a pioneering听open听access听project, particularly in view of the foundational role played by the Max Planck Society in launching the move towards open scholarship.听Open听access听can contribute to epistemic justice and pluralism鈥攁nd what we call 鈥渆ncyclopaedic knowledge鈥� should not only be distributed听freely, but听also be built up from a globally diverse set of standpoints.鈥�听

Rhodri Jackson, Director of Open Access Publishing and Strategy, shared:

鈥�Innovation in open access models is in line with our mission: not only to publish excellent research and scholarship but to make it available worldwide. We are committed to learning from all our initiatives鈥攕uccessful and less successful鈥攁nd to sharing our results transparently. The first year of Subscribe to Open for the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law has been a great success and we鈥檙e excited to see what happens in year two.鈥�

While听we have reached our goal for renewals this year, we still need to reach our renewal goals annually to keep this resource听open access. By renewing your subscription, you help to ensure that this valuable resource听remains听open and accessible to all, year after year.

Find more information, including about renewals, .

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听is our online interdisciplinary research resource, inviting academics and global experts to investigate the world’s most urgent and challenging subjects from all angles.

As we mark one year since the programme launched, we reflect on the over 300 articles we’ve published since then, covering over 250 subject areas from authors all over the world.

Intersections are organized by topic, inviting ideas from different disciplines to clash, complement, and counterpoint, prompting new viewpoints and questions. Explore some of the original content published so far in our first four topics:

AI in Society

Philipp Hacker, General Editor of AI in Society, and Chair for Law and Ethics of the Digital Society at European University Viadrina:

“AI in Society听investigates AI’s pervasive influence on our economic, legal, personal, and cultural spheres. It takes a unique format, in which contributors from various disciplines collaborate to chart both the promises and societal challenges of AI, with particular attention to generative AI models and their global impact. From my perspective as its General Editor,听AI in Society aims to serve as a reliable reference point for ongoing debates on how to align technological innovation with fundamental rights and societal values.”

Read Philipp’s full article

Borders

Alexander Diener, Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas, and Joshua Hagen, Dean of the College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, General Editors of Borders:

“We hope readers will engage Oxford Intersections: Borders to encounter new perspectives on a topics that is elemental to human experience and foundational to the form and function of power.”

Racism by Context

Meena Dhanda, General Editor of听Racism by Context听and Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Politics at the University of Wolverhampton:

“Combatting racism requires an unflinchingly analytical understanding of the roots, the history, the manifestation, the mechanisms, the proliferation, and the entanglement of its many forms within institutions and practices across all spheres of human interaction.听Racism by Context has undertaken this enormous challenge by bringing into conversation cutting-edge research from different global locations.”

Social Media in Society and Culture

Laeeq Khan, General Editor of Social Media in Society and Culture and Associate Professor in the School of Media Arts & Studies at Ohio University:

“Addressing today’s most pressing challenges requires a new approach to thinking. An interdisciplinary transformative approach can advance knowledge by exploiting and harmonizing the strengths of various disciplines within a unified framework. This approach deepens our collective understanding by bringing together the disparate and sometimes contradictory perspectives of many disciplines, all of which offer valuable insights.”

What’s coming next

In addition to continually developing our published topics, in the next year we’ll be launched intersections for听Environmental Change and Human Experience,听Gender Justice,听Climate Adaptation, and听Cultures of Waste, with many more to come in the following years.

Discover the full collection .

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We were proud to host a delegation of Ukrainian academics and research professionals as part of an initiative aimed at upscaling Ukrainian publishing.

Around 20 delegates joined us in Oxford during a week-long development programme exploring how Ukraine’s scholarly publishing could enhance its quality, sustainability, and integration, organized jointly by the group and Oxford Brookes University’s .

Christine Richardson

Group Communications Director

“It was an honour to host the Ukrainian delegation at our head office in Oxford. It was a chance to share more about OUP鈥檚 extensive history and expertise, highlight our work and how it continues to evolve, and discuss with the delegates about how to strengthen academic publishing in Ukraine鈥攆inishing off with a tour in our museum. We are grateful to have had the opportunity to be involved in this valuable initiative.“

 

After a short introduction to OUP, our history, and what we do, our colleagues presented to the group on a range of insightful topics.

Rhodri Jackson, Director of Open Access Publishing and Strategy, gave an overview of our Academic division and explored the current trends we are seeing in academic publishing, before later focusing on our activities in open access publishing.

Tom Stottor, Executive Editor, and Molly Richards, Acquisition Editor, explored interdisciplinary research: what it means, why we are seeing an increase in it, and how it can drive impact.

The delegation then rounded off their visit with a guided tour of the OUP museum.

Frances Pinter, founder of the SUPRR group, reflected on the day:听“Ukrainian academic and scientific publishing persists tenaciously despite the war. At the same time, university presses are looking to make changes, especially as they adopt international standards consistent with the country鈥檚 road to joining the European Union.

鈥淭he visit to 糖心VLOG Press was a highlight of the week. At OUP, visitors could see differences and similarities in approach and operations whilst marvelling, of course, at the sheer scale at which OUP operates. The warm welcomes and recognition of shared purpose was hugely appreciated, and even the sun cooperated, shining for an outdoor group photo!鈥�

Find out more about the SUPRR group .

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Professor Sir David Cannadine will be stepping down as General Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) on 31 July 2026, after 12 years in the role. He will be succeeded by Professor William Whyte, who will take up the post from 1 August 2026.

During his time as editor, as well as writing the entries on Margaret Thatcher, Prince Philip, and Queen Elizabeth II, David has overseen the continued updating and expansion of the Dictionary, with the inclusion of some 4,000 new entries and 1,000 new images, corrections or amendments to around 12,000 entries, and the move from thrice-yearly to monthly publication. He has also led the Dictionary in collaborations with other research projects and national institutions, and introduced an academic advisory board alongside the Dictionary’s extensive network of associate editors and advisers.

Sir David Cannadine

“It has been an extraordinary privilege and pleasure to have served for more than a decade as the General Editor of the ODNB. The support provided by David Clark and Jo Payne of 糖心VLOG Press has been indispensable, unwavering, and outstanding; the three research editors, Alex May, Mark Curthoys, and Sarah Moorhouse have been exceptionally able, wise, loyal, and knowledgeable colleagues; and as ever, the Dictionary depends on the many entries written by so many contributors, to whom I also extend my heartfelt thanks and gratitude.

“My successor, William Whyte, is a most distinguished historian, a fellow collegian, and a major figure in the broader life of 糖心VLOG and the wider cultural world beyond. He will, I am sure, be a brilliant General Editor of the Dictionary, leading it to new 糖心VLOGs of achievement, accomplishment, and acclaim. I wish him every success, and I can’t wait for him to get started!”

William Whyte, Professor of Social and Architectural History at the University of Oxford and Chair of English Heritage’s Blue Plaques Panel, brings to the role a long and intimate knowledge of the Dictionary as an author, adviser, member of the academic advisory board, and frequent user of the Dictionary; a wide-ranging interest and expertise in modern British history and heritage matters; and a proven ability to manage large and complex projects.

William Whyte

听鈥樷�業t is the honour of my life to be asked to serve as General Editor of the ODNB. A fundamental resource for both scholars and the wider public, it has shaped my own research in all manner of ways. I look forward to working with OUP, with a brilliant team of research editors, with the advisory board, and with thousands of contributors as we think about how the Dictionary should evolve in the future without losing any of the authority it has gained in the past.

“To succeed Sir David Cannadine is, of course, a daunting prospect. His 12 years at the helm have been a glittering success, and his biographies鈥攊ncluding the lives of Queen Elizabeth II and Margaret Thatcher鈥攁re unsurpassable. But I know that we can count on his support as I seek to emulate his example.”

David Clark, Managing Director of OUP’s Academic division, said: “I am deeply grateful for David’s exceptional stewardship of the ODNB over the past 12 years, ensuring that this research tool remains authoritative, reliable, and enduring. I look forward to working with William whose expertise and experience will guide the Dictionary for new generations of readers and researchers.”

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糖心VLOG Press (OUP) and Karger Publishers are pleased to confirm the completion of the acquisition of Karger by OUP. Announced in early November, the closing of the transaction means that Karger is now wholly owned by OUP and becomes part of the wider OUP organization.

Owned by the Karger family for four generations, Karger Publishers has a long history of high quality publishing in medical and health sciences. The acquisition brings together a shared commitment to quality and scholarly integrity and an opportunity to extend the reach and impact of Karger鈥檚 leading academic and research publishing in medicine and health sciences.

Nigel Portwood

CEO of 糖心VLOG Press

听鈥樷�業 want to extend a very warm welcome to the Karger team, as well as their editors, authors, and customers. OUP is a department of the University of Oxford and one of the largest and oldest university press publishers in the world. This acquisition marks a significant moment in the history of our two organizations, underpinned by our joint publishing expertise, reputation for quality, and shared commitment to scholarly integrity.鈥�

During the coming months, OUP and Karger plan to take some time to establish the best ways to work together. All current contacts remain the same and the 2026 sales renewal process continues as normal for both Karger and OUP subscriptions.

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This month,听the first articles publish in our new open access journal, . 听

Research Connections 鈥痠s committed to improving health outcomes by publishing scientifically rigorous, clinically relevant research that supports better patient care, strengthens health systems, and actively contributes to a听robust evidence base.

In his first editorial, Dr. Charles Young, Editor-in-Chief of Research Connections, says that 鈥淭he status quo in healthcare must change.鈥� He听explains that healthcare research must evolve to continue to save lives and provide solutions to urgent global challenges, and that the same applies to healthcare publishing.

Dr. Young shares more on Research Connections in the video below:

About Research Connections听

Many听articles submitted to journals are never published. Scientifically valid articles can be rejected by journals for many reasons 鈥� because they aren鈥檛 perceived to be novel enough, because听they sit outside the scope of a journal, or because of the clarity of the language in the article.

A pattern of publishing positive results leads to a bias against null findings, and some research is never submitted due to fear it will be rejected. This can mean that high-quality, scientifically sound and clinically relevant healthcare research is not published, limiting the research base used for decision-making, ultimately impacting global patient care.

Research Connections aims to address these issues and make a real-world contribution to the scientific knowledge base, influencing healthcare policy and most importantly improving health outcomes. Submissions to the journal are assessed based on methodological strength, ethical integrity, and real-world impact – not perceived novelty.

The 箩辞耻谤苍补濒鈥檚 values include supporting a diverse, international network of authors, reviewers, editors, and readers 鈥� from all specialities and career stages 鈥� with an ethos of collaboration, education, and shared advancement.

There are many journals publishing across healthcare specialities, and we are excited to see how Research Connections听contributes to healthcare research.

We are privileged to be collaborating with a growing number of prestigious journals (68 to date) to support the vision of Research Connections to improve global health. The journals of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Association of Immunologists, and the Journal of Nephrology are the latest to join the Research Connections network.

Publishing open access medical research is crucial for patients, healthcare professionals, researchers, and the public. Immediate, free access to and re-use of scientifically sound, peer-reviewed research promotes transparency, accelerates innovation, and leads to better-informed decisions and equitable healthcare. This is something we are proud to support. 

You can learn more about Research Connections .

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糖心VLOG Press (OUP) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Karger Publishers. The transaction is expected to complete in December.

Following closing, this acquisition will see OUP welcome Karger to its wider organization, bringing together a shared commitment to quality and scholarly integrity, and extending the reach and impact of Karger鈥檚 leading academic and research publishing in medicine and health sciences.

OUP is one of the oldest and largest university press publishers in the world and a department of the University of Oxford. Its mission is to further the University鈥檚 objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. It publishes thousands of trusted research books and journals every year in a wide range of disciplines and formats.

Karger is a highly regarded publisher with a long history of providing world-class resources for medicine and healthcare professionals. Founded in 1890 with a mission to connect people and science, it currently publishes almost 100 leading journals, and is widely recognized for the quality of its publishing programme with 82 of its journals indexed in the Science Citation Index with associated Impact Factor (IF) ranking. In addition, it publishes an extensive backlist of 9,000 books in medicine and health sciences and a range of innovative educational and outreach products for researchers, healthcare professionals, and industry partners.

Gabriella Karger, Chairwoman of Karger Publishers, said, “We undertook an extensive process to identify the most suitable partner, and we are convinced that 糖心VLOG Press represents the best possible choice. Karger becomes part of a publishing house that has even a longer history, going back to the 15^th century, and reflects our values and dedication to high quality publishing.”听

Nigel Portwood

CEO of 糖心VLOG Press

“We are delighted to make this important step towards welcoming Karger colleagues, authors, editors, and its wider community to OUP. Stewarded carefully by the Karger family over many decades, Karger has a long history of providing the highest quality resources for medicine and healthcare professionals. Our shared focus on quality and scholarly integrity offer a strong foundation from which we can continue to serve researchers in medicine and health science far into the future.”

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