In December 2024, the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution resigned en masse following disagreements with the ...

Academic publishers are currently up in arms about the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)—a bill that has the perfectly reasonable goal of making publicly funded research available to the ...

Defunding of diversity-related research may deter American university libraries from buying titles in contentious topic areas, publishers fear.

In December 2024, the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution resigned en masse following disagreements with the journal's publisher ...

On top of their teaching loads, faculty are expected to publish—and peer review—research findings, often receiving little to no compensation beyond the prestige and recognition of publishing in top ...

An international group aiming to eliminate bias and discrimination in academic publishing has today published guidance for the collection of author data that can work between different publishers – an ...

The fifth-largest academic journal publisher, SAGE, yesterday (November 20) announced an agreement with linkurl:open access;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/home ...

In a stark sign of scientists’ escalating frustration with how academic journals operate, researchers are taking on six publishing behemoths in court, arguing that the system is exploitative and ...

“Fraudsters have infiltrated the academic publishing industry to prioritise profits over scholarship,” they say in an article in The Conversation. “Equipped with technological ...