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If we really want transdisciplinary research, we must ditch the ordered listing of authors that stalls collaborative science.

The implications of a simultaneous redirection of the big publishers' business strategy towards open access business models and the acquisition of scholarly infrastructure utilizing the conceptual framework of rent-seeking theory.

Essay on how traditional publishing works: its market mechanism and editorial strategy.

As artificially intelligent tools for literature and data exploration evolve, developers seek to automate how hypotheses are generated and validated.

Academic publishers have some of the highest profit margins in the world. In the digital age, researchers are starting to wonder whether publishers actually deserve this much money.

This really gives a new meaning to the "paper of record."

To highlight uncertain norms in authorship, John P. A. Ioannidis, Richard Klavans and Kevin W. Boyack identified the most prolific scientists of recent years.

All 10 senior editors of the open-access journal Nutrients resigned last month, alleging that the publisher, the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), pressured them to accept manuscripts of mediocre quality and importance.

But academics say government incentives to publish are part of the problem.

Dimensions by Digital Science (owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing) is a new database that includes not only data about publications and their natural associated citation graph, but also awarded grant data, patent data and clinical data and altmetric attention data.

eLife is conducting an open search for a new Editor-in-Chief to succeed Randy Schekman.

What will it take to make the majority of scholarship open access so anyone can read it without a paywall?

Summarizing the literature on predatory journals, describing its epidemiological characteristics, and extracting empirical descriptions of potential characteristics of predatory journals.

Despite two lost legal battles in the US, domain name seizures, and millions of dollars in damage claims, Sci-Hub continues to offer unauthorized access to academic papers. The site's founder says that she would rather operate legally, but copyright gets in the way. Sci-Hub is not the problem she argues, it's a solution, something many academics appear to agree with.

An international investigation has discovered that some 400,000 scientists have published papers in so-called "predatory journals".  Action taken after number of journals run by such publishers triples since 2013.

This Frontiers blog post from presents a journal analysis contrasting open access journals and subscription journals based on data from SCImago (Scopus).

With the current crisis that Academia is witnessing; irreproducibility of scientific research, extravagant costs associated with…

Negotiations with Elsevier have stalled over Open Access deals.

Academic publishing is dominated by a small number of commercial firms. How can the academy take control of scholarly publishing?

On the research data repository Zenodo you can now view the number of views and downloads on record pages, and you can sort search results by most viewed.

If 'money makes the world go round' then the world of scientific publishing has proved to be no exception to the rule.

"Elsevier is still not willing to offer a deal in the form of a nationwide agreement in Germany that responds to the needs of the academic community in line with the principles of open access and that is financially sustainable," says Horst Hippler, the lead negotiator and spokesperson for the DEAL Project Steering Committee.

The objective of this scoping review is to summarize the literature on predatory journals, describe its epidemiological characteristics, and to extract empirical descriptions of potential characteristics of predatory journals.

A formal complaint to the European Commission Ombudsman regarding the relationship between Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor.

Imagine using version control to track the process of research in real time. Peer review becomes a community-governed process, where the quality of engagement becomes the hallmark of individual reputations. All research outputs can be published and credited with not an 'impact factor' in sight.

A response to an article by Elsevier which critiqued a piece by Dr. Jon Tennant about them corrupting Open Science in Europe.