A lawsuit recently filed by scientists against six major academic journal publishers shines a spotlight on a long-standing issue that echoes the broader problems in academia itself: an excessive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taxpayers fund a lot of university research in the U.S., and these findings published in scholarly journals often produce major ...

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In a field like gender studies, what constitutes a respectable outlet? We can make progress toward answering that question by utilizing SCImago's ranking of academic journals. Last week, a funny and ...

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The Internet's influence on scholarly publishing will return control and benefits to the academy and radically change the nature of the static print journal. The Internet is going to forever change ...

College students complain about high textbook prices, but they've got nothing on Patricia Iannuzzi. UNLV's dean of libraries spent just over $15,000 for a subscription this year to Tetrahedron, an ...

Last month, the University of California reached an impasse with one of the world’s biggest publishers of academic journals over whether the company’s publications would be included in the ...

Jillian Kay Melchior leaves out the major benefit of hoax articles submitted to and published by academic journals (“Fake News Comes to Academia,” op-ed, Oct. 6). You can say that hoaxes are unethical ...

In the publish-or-perish world of academia, it’s often believed that only one kind of publication matters: the peer-reviewed journal article. Academic papers play an outsize role in determining ...