Academic publishing

The research excellence framework’s reliance on hasty peer review by generalists limits sample size and accuracy, three academics argue

Study finds further evidence to suggest peer review process riddled with gender and racial bias

Libraries worry that they could be caught up in a drive to force platforms like YouTube to share their profits with creators

Analysis shows thousands of researchers publish the equivalent of one paper every five days, but their involvement is often limited

European funders’ beefed-up open access mandate sounds the death knell for subscription publishing, but academic Armageddon is no closer, says Lenny Teytelman

European funders’ shift away from subscription journals raises questions over the outlook for prestigious periodicals

All research funded by participating public bodies across Europe must be made freely and openly available to read and download, agency heads say

Publisher says divestment from Prometheus was taken for commercial reasons

Growing pressure to publish only in elite tier ignores the vital importance of lesser-ranked titles to academia and society, says Adam Graycar

Review of Higher Education says it cannot cope with significant increase in number of articles offered

As Elsevier buys another academic workflow company, some worry about potential for publishers to ‘lock in’ scholars to their services

Matthew Reisz meets Andrea Pető, recent recipient of the Madame de Staël prize, a scholar at Hungary’s Central European University whose feminist probing into the dark corners of Hungary’s past is provoking strong reactions in the ‘illiberal democracy’

Study offers further insight into the persistent trend for women to be cited less frequently than men

Magdalena Skipper lists dedication to high-quality, reproducible science and greater transparency in decision-making as priorities

European Research Council says move is to support open access and get round often lengthy publishing process

No sign of breakthrough as boycott yet to have significant impact on publisher

Investigation discovers 400,000 researchers worldwide have used ‘pseudoscientific’ journals

Proposals to extend open access requirements to include all long-form works beyond REF 2021 divide opinion

Publisher says it remains ‘committed’ to striking a deal, but question mark hangs over institutions’ continuing access

Nobel laureates call for early career researchers to be freed from ‘publish or perish’ mentality

Submissions will be published alongside reviewers’ comments and author responses

Study suggests pure science disciplines may have more of a problem with citations that are not actually giving the thumbs up to other studies

Up to 90 per cent of reviewers unable to guess authors of papers in experiment

While majority of outputs now meet requirements, some institutions and disciplines are doing better than others

Average spending has increased by 19 per cent in four years, Freedom of Information requests reveal

Institutions themselves could create their own megajournals in response, report from European universities suggests

Scholarly body warns mandate could ‘undermine the UK’s place in the global research community’

LSE Press becomes latest open-access platform launched by universities in response to industry shift towards online publishing methods

Sector’s move follows similar rows in France and Germany

Convincing universities to divest from fossil fuels and use only green energy is a better strategy, says Thomas Smith

Boycott comes as Springer Nature reveals to investors how it uses brand and impact factor to charge academics ‘premium’ prices

Objections to the suppression of ‘sensitive’ articles should not be based on outmoded claims about consumption, says Michel Hockx

While one group of publishers takes academic network to court over copyright, another strikes deal

NAS calls for US lawmakers to bring change also brings warning that crisis talk may ultimately ‘stifle frontier discoveries’

Reluctance to shame those who breach editorial ethics has dented confidence in research integrity, argue Adam Cox, Russell Craig and Dennis Tourish

‘No more direct access to Springer’s latest papers? No problem,’ says petition, signed by nearly 4,000

Concerns over cost and impact of proposals can be overcome, say scholars

A switch to open access could save hundreds of millions of euros, says analysis from the European University Association

Battle between publishers and academic social network deadlocked

Clarivate promises to ‘scale up’ Kopernio, which automatically detects researchers’ subscriptions and directs them to open access alternatives if necessary

Research institutions, first in Germany and now in France, are finding that publishers do not cut off access to journals – even when they stop paying

Study sparks fresh debate about value added by commercial publishers, but has attracted some criticism

US-based ARTiFACTS system is claimed to be first ‘fully functional’ blockchain-based system for recording research process

Revised edition reignites debate about value of journal ratings in academia

Despite some progress, researchers are still reluctant to switch journals because of fears it could hinder their careers

Wellcome Trust and UK Research & Innovation launch reviews of policies that require funded papers to be made freely available

With state intervention back in vogue, and publishers’ profit margins still sky-high, journals could be the next monopoly to come under scrutiny

Associate editors and board members for Building Research & Information label forced change in editorship ‘arbitrary and unnecessary’

Researchers at well-resourced, highly ranked universities are more likely to publish in open-access journals

Detail, clarity and a constructive approach: all these are key to a helpful review, writes Sophie Inge

But ‘risks’ of open access and a shift away from subscription model could halt growth, publisher’s financial results reveal

Publisher proposed to bring in extra charges for digital papers published more than 20 years ago

Although Finland and South Korea have agreed deals with the publisher, European sectors are looking to take a harder line

In an increasingly competitive publishing environment, responding effectively to criticism is key to getting published, says Robert MacIntosh

Pakistani journals lack the professionalism and expertise to support a thriving knowledge economy, say Abdur Rehman Cheema and Mehvish Riaz

London institution thought to be the first in UK to launch open-access publishing platform, as academics move away from traditional scholarly journals

Biggest titles’ opening of sister periodicals is taking submissions away from specialist titles, researchers warn

Some of the biggest universities in Germany are now without contracts with the publisher

Junior researchers also more likely to feel they have to give credit to colleagues who made minimal contributions

Increases in government research funding are absorbed by scientists at the ‘bottom of the hierarchy’, study suggests