We suggest a centralized facility for submitting to journals—one that would benefit scientists and not only publishers.

The editors of scholarly communications are under considerable pressure as recent trends in Gold Open Access characterize them as a luxury of the past.

The academic paper has some inherent limitations—chief among them, that it can provide only a summary of a given research project.

An overview of recent events and the current state of preprints in the scholarly communications landscape.

 Open data, code, materials and other reasons make blog posts score better on some core scientific values.

You might see science as splashy headlines and a barrage of new results—but in the background are people with emotions and ambitions, politics, and a system that promotes publishing novel findings above all. A new paper on eel navigation highlights some of these systemic troubles.

Creators of a free tool that locates open-access versions of research articles are hoping to make scholarly publishers rethink their business models.

Technology, greed, a lack of clear rules and norms, hyper-competitiveness and a certain amount of corruption have resulted in confusion and anarchy in the world of scientific communication.

And how to fix it.

Advances in automation technology mean that robots and artificial intelligence programs are capable of performing an ever-greater share of our work,

Academic publishing is becoming more about establishing a pecking order and less about pursuing knowledge.