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Recent reports suggest that there has been an increase in the number of retractions and corrections of published articles due to post-publication detection of problematic data. Moreover, fraudulent data and sloppy science have long-term effects on the scientific literature and subsequent projects based on false and unreproducible claims. The JCI introduced several data screening checks for manuscripts prior to acceptance in an attempt to reduce the number of post-publication corrections and retractions, with the ultimate goal of increasing confidence in the published papers.

Thousands of Nature referees have chosen to be publicly acknowledged.

Fourteen universities from five European countries started a collaboration to set up University Journals as an alternative to the current journal system that requires authors to transfer their copyright or charges article processing charges.

UKSG Breakout session: Increasing Engagement with Digital Collections.

As open access Plan S draws closer editors start to re-evaluate the business case of academic publishing, and their role in it. A major investigation reveals that editors at academic journals can make up to five figure salaries.

YS Chi claims publisher's shift to recognise research quality over quantity left a void that has been filled by others happy to publish insubstantial work

The divergent strategies of scholarly publishers to forge licensing agreements with libraries are yielding different results.

The academic publication lifecycle has undergone radical changes over the past several years. These changes have a significant impact on how scholarship will be written, published, promoted, and read in the future.

Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, has today announced a partnership with DataCite.

Elsevier is looking into how one of its journals published a paper which makes bizarre claims about the knowledge of the ancients.

Due a to a misconfigured server, a researcher found a constant stream of Elsevier users' passwords.

An Open Letter to Elsevier and the Editorial Boards of Elsevier Journal

Hindawi partners with Publons to improve and speed up the peer review process.

The changing world of scholarly communication and the emergence of 'Open Science' or 'Open Research' has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly-debated topics. Yet, evidence-based rational debate is regularly drowned out by misinformed or exaggerated rhetoric, which does not benefit the evolving system of scholarly communication.

New software enables the rapid submission of manuscripts for initial assessment.

The giants of the scientific publishing industry have made huge profits for decades. Now they are under threat.

The University of California has broken with one of the world's largest academic publishers. Is this the end of a very profitable business model?

Time and time again, academic publishers have managed to create the impression that publishing incurs a lot of costs which justify the outrageous prices they charge, even though it is well established that the cost of making an article public with all the bells and whistles that come with an academic article is between US$/€200-500.

The proportion of open-access publications with authors from the pharmaceutical industry doubled between 2009 and 2016.

As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier. Despite months of contract negotiations, Elsevier was unwilling to meet UC's key goal: securing universal open access to UC research while containing the rapidly escalating costs associated with for-profit journals.

A pilot project representing the first significant experiment with the syndication of publisher content to a content supercontinent.

Implications for the scholarly publishing landscape

Elsevier saw 2% underlying revenue growth in 2018, according to the latest annual financial results filed by parent company RELX, to a total of £2,538m.

Dear Publishing Industry,

Blending the traditional manuscript with live code, data and interactive figures, eLife showcases a new way for researchers to tell their full story.

India's annual multi-million-euro outlay on scientific publishing is a bad deal for the country, says Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, principal scientific adviser to the government.

Invited talk by Jon Tennant delivered at the NFAIS 2019 Annual Conference.

NISO and NFAIS announced a planned merger yesterday, designed to better serve their members during a time of rapid change.

EUA has published a preview of the results of the latest edition of its Big Deals survey.