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Michael Eisen doesn't hold back when invited to vent. “It's still ludicrous how much it costs to publish research — let alone what we pay,” he declares. The biggest travesty, he says, is that the ...

Jessica Lange received funding from the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) - Research in Librarianship grant. McGill University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA.

Just one-third of researchers, publishers, funders and librarians believe academic reward and recognition systems are working ...

The Journal Development Symposium 2025 by Springer Nature focused on the evolution of research publishing with over 100 ...

The entire editorial board of the Elsevier-owned Journal of Informetrics resigned Thursday in protest over high open-access fees, restricted access to citation data and commercial control of scholarly ...

This page is part of the Harvard Open Access Project (HOAP). As you consider different OA journals, bear in mind that some will be high in quality, impact, and prestige. Some will be low. In this ...

Executive Officer, Australasian Open Access Support Group, Australian National University Virginia Barbour for the Australasian Open Access Support Group, an open access advocacy group. I used to work ...

In August, the US government announced that it was adopting a policy requiring that all the research it funded is open access. A key element of this plan is that, once the policy takes effect, every ...

Nature journals recently announced an author fee, €9500, which is thought to be the highest of any journal. This news has been received with outrage and disappointment among scientists, especially ...

Most papers published in the Nature journals are submitted to them directly. But because each Nature journal has to decline many papers of very high quality, an editor may suggest that a paper ...

Academic publishing’s profit margins are reportedly higher than those of Apple, Google and Amazon. It has long struck me as a racket: academics sign their work over to private businesses for free, ...