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Junior researchers being ¡®held back¡¯ by the ordering of names on joint papers, study finds

Accreditation of research methods should be a mandatory requirement for publication in journals, says Peter Thompson

Subscription models and self-publishing present ways for scholars to bring their work to the public

Billy Hunter responds as publishers seek the removal of millions of papers from ResearchGate

Academic social network accused of infringing copyright on a massive scale

Publisher argues European countries could move to subscription-free approach without international consensus

Publishing is part of the academic game, says Mike Smith, so you¡¯d better get good at it 

Is your resolution for the new academic year to publish more? Here, 16 scholars give advice on pitching, editing and writing ¨C and dealing with negative peer reviews

Adam Szetela has been speaking to some high profile scholars about how to write well, and this is what he found out

Publishers should consult with journal editors over censorship requests, says China Quarterly committee member

Half of Third World Quarterly editorial board resign in protest over ¡®case for colonialism¡¯ essay

Europe¡¯s funding councils oppose idea of requiring researchers to obtain a licence if they want to quote their colleagues or news articles

Publishers prepared to add names to journal articles for a price, study finds

Publisher argues Topics platform will provide ¡®breadth, depth and currency of knowledge¡¯, and remove the need to leave its website

Op-ed on statues of eugenicists and researchers who denied rights to non-white people branded ¡®disastrous¡¯

No tax inspector or police officer can claim rights over what they write for their jobs, so why should academics, asks Gabriel Egan

Research reveals majority of authors publishing in illegitimate journals come from wealthy countries

The solutions to the predatory publishing problem are known, we just need to implement them, say Larissa Shamseer and David Moher

Loans between libraries, and research sharing between colleagues, could allow country to sever links, negotiators claim

Less than 10 per cent of tweets on journal articles represent genuine engagement with content, finds study

Metric on self-referencing could provide ¡®truer¡¯ citation data, say researchers

Paper was rejected by journal because it had appeared on website of education centre

All research papers should be openly available by 2024, says Norwegian government

Creeping political interference in universities, from the UK to Hungary and the US, is part of a worrying shift in attitudes towards higher education

'Intense' reaction from scholars worldwide drives publisher to back down on article block

Hundreds sign petition to boycott journals published by Cambridge University Press amid censorship row

Publisher pulls articles from academic website in China at request of communist government agency

Extent of freely accessible literature could ¡®tip scales¡¯ for libraries to cancel subscription packages, says study

Universities, funders, rankers and individual academics all need to act to stamp out predatory publishers, says Roger Watson

Creator of controversial predatory journals blacklist says some peers are failing to warn of dangers of disreputable publishers

The publication game that researchers are obliged to play has stripped the purpose out of social research. Time to change the rules, says Yiannis Gabriel

Neurobiologist questions whether academia has reached ¡®peak sting¡¯ in its battle with predatory journals

German institutions and the publishing giant have still failed to agree a new deal. Could this become permanent?

Without more research funding, senior Indonesian academics are unlikely to be able to meet new government-imposed publication standards, says Martin Surya Mulyadi

It is not Luddism to be cautious about destroying an academic publishing industry that has served us well, says Marilyn Deegan

Early career academics can be left to sink or swim when navigating the choppy waters of learning scholarly writing. Helen Sword says a more formal, communal approach can help everyone, especially women

For those vacationing in Peer Review Land, Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto offers some help with the local lingo

Some of Germany's most prestigious institutions are increasing pressure on the publisher to strike a new deal

Stanford professor says $15 million lawsuit victory will not engender sympathy for publishing giant

Academics and journal editors call for creation of national registries of research integrity officers

Arts and humanities titles now average just 60 retail sales, report says

Jeffrey Beall says he faced 'intense pressure' from the University of Colorado Denver and feared losing his job

Vice-president says universities must convince researchers that journal articles are not the only way to disseminate knowledge

Editors of The Journal of Political Philosophy apologise for 'oversight' in commissioning of 60-page symposium

Study outlines how publishers¡¯ guidelines led to adoption of positive research practices

Report urges academy to ¡®embrace¡¯ opportunities for wider research dissemination

Learned societies used to be seen as the guardians of academic prestige. They should act on that moral authority and reclaim their oversight of peer review, says Aileen Fyfe

Objections to co-authorship with juniors display a misguided sense of ethics, say Mark Hayter and Roger Watson

Taylor and Francis move to replace editor and withdraw his paper threatens ¡®scientific integrity¡¯, critics claim

Analysis of scholarly publishing¡¯s ¡®Napster¡¯ shows that academics are not prepared to wait to access research

Technologist argues that artificial intelligence could make publishing decisions in milliseconds

Negotiators fail to reach a deal with Oxford University Press over transition to open access

Witnessing the work of military surgical teams in Afghanistan caused conflicting emotions in an academic author and a sense of the futility of war and of his own profession

System rewards academics whose work is used in teaching ¨C but at potential bureaucracy cost

Summarising your journal paper effectively helps to ensure that it reaches the right audience

Most academics are keen to access other researchers¡¯ material but a third are yet to share their own

Analysis of more than 700,000 biomedical texts reveals growing use of jargon

Issuing press releases without allowing access to the original research criticised by UK politicians

Code of conduct frames non-publication of unexpected results as an issue of research integrity