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 ...

Taxpayers fund a lot of university research in the U.S., and these findings published in scholarly journals often produce major breakthroughs in medicine, vehicle safety, food safety, criminal justice ...

The Elsevier reduction is not the University’s first time ending subscriptions to major journals. In 2024, the library ...

This is the fourth part of a series on the crisis in academic research and publishing. Read the first three parts here, here ...

In a field like gender studies, what constitutes a respectable outlet? We can make progress toward answering that question by utilizing SCImago's ranking of academic journals. Last week, a funny and ...

In the dozen years we have co-edited the journal ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, we have read many external reports supplied by colleagues in our discipline. We have also written ...

Three self-styled liberal scholars were given the academic green light for a rewritten version of Adolf Hiter’s Mein Kampf by a leading feminist journal. “We rewrote a section of Mein Kampf as ...

The aphorism “information wants to be free,” coined by entrepreneur Stewart Brand in 1984 at the inaugural Hackers Conference, has come to serve as a shorthand justification for an ideology that would ...

Academic publishing is a strange phenomenon, one that normal people—who might assume, for instance, that people generally get paid for doing what they do professionally—often misunderstand. Back in ...