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For years university researchers have complained that the publishing giant has driven up the costs of journals. Now, as data-sharing becomes more valuable, the company’s shifting focus is raising new concerns.
Consortium seeks country-wide licence for journals at reduced prices.
German institutions and the publishing giant have still failed to agree a new deal. Could this become permanent?
One of scientists’ favourite statistics — the P value — should face tougher standards, say leading researchers.
A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing.
Publishing platforms from The Wellcome Trust, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the European Commission alter Open Access.
A number of so-called scientific journals have accepted a Star Wars-themed spoof paper.
An analysis of 15 million English scientific full-text articles published during the period 1823-2016.
Sci-Hub's contains 68.9% of all 81.6 million scholarly articles, which rises to 85.2% for those published in closed access journals and 77.0% of the 5.2 million articles published by inactive journals.
The issue regarding free access to academic journals and content is growing increasingly contentious, with founders of sites that enable this facing the might of the law. But should knowledge be exclusive?
A new study from Oxford University Press further documents the decline of reference resources, a category of scholarly material more than ready for an innovative era in its evolution.
F1000 is reducing the open access publishing charges for all articles containing an interactive Plotly figure by 50%.
Recent announcements from the creator of Sci-Hub raise the distinct possibility that Scholarly Publishers have been systematically compromised.
ReScience is a peer-reviewed journal that targets computational research and encourages the explicit replication of already published research.
Authorea, the collaborative document editor for researchers, announced a partnership and direct submission agreement with bioRxiv, the leading preprint server for biological research.
Authors submitting a manuscript to eLife are encouraged to upload it to a recognized preprint server at the same time in order to make their results available as quickly and as widely as possible.
Chinese scientists can be paid up to $165K for publishing a single paper in a top Western journal. The first study of payments to Chinese scientists for publishing in high-impact journals has serious implications for the future of research.
Exciting new discoveries get all the attention — leaving just-as-important negative results in the dust. And fixing the problem is easier said than done.
The market is dominated by just a few publishers who exercise their power ruthlessly.
Between August 2014 and September 2016, the Academic Book of the Future Project, initiated by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Library, explored the current and future status of the traditional academic monograph.
Musicians and moviemakers are not the only ones to suffer from internet piracy.
Sci-Hub is not a search engine and it stores papers in its own repository.
Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan, creator of the site Sci-Hub.
The recent long read about scientific publishing in the Guardian is fantastic. It depicts a very telling story of the research publishing landscape.
Stanford professor says $15 million lawsuit victory will not engender sympathy for publishing giant
It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell.
The journal published guidelines on Thursday aimed at reducing scientific misconduct and at making studies easier to check and replicate.
No Defendant has appeared or answered the Complaint.
Some doubt that the publishing giant will see any money from the pirate site.
