A lawsuit recently filed by scientists against six major academic journal publishers shines a spotlight on a long-standing issue that echoes the broader problems in academia itself: an excessive ...

An emeritus professor at the University of Missouri, Arthur Jago, in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article was skeptical of the claim that a majority of academic journal articles are never ...

References used to be one of the last things journal editors checked before publishing a paper. Artificial intelligence is changing that.

Adam Habib does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Starting a journal is hard enough – keeping it going is an ongoing challenge. Here’s how to maintain success in academic publishing Starting a new academic journal is an uphill struggle from the ...

Last month, the University of California reached an impasse with one of the world’s biggest publishers of academic journals over whether the company’s publications would be included in the ...

Nobody likes negative feedback but rejection is not all bad. Here is how to see rejection of your article by a peer-reviewed journal as an opportunity Most academic activities involve competitive ...

Some very clever people have put up with a very silly system for far too long. That is the upshot of our reporting on scholarly journals this week. Academics not only provide the raw material, but ...

The age of artificial intelligence is upon humanity. No domain ranging from finance, and the labour market to security & strategy and banking, is not spared of disruptions caused by AI.

Stephen Cramond has consulted to academic publishers in the past. As the cost of accessing academic journal articles increases, a growing number of academic institutions are building publicly ...