Jennifer Howard’s article in today’s Chronicle reports on this weekend’s meeting of the Association of American University Presses. Her account is upbeat, noting that the meeting “was more a study in ...

A university press’s efforts to assess the implications of open access pushed it to join a growing chorus of voices calling for reform of the incentive structures straining the academic publishing ...

When writer Cory Doctorow introduced the term "enshittification" in 2023, he captured a pattern many users had already noticed in their personal lives. The social media platforms, e-commerce sites and ...

While the pressure to publish starts early in an academic’s career, RIT doctoral student Israa Thiab has a strategy to get the work done without the anxiety. Thiab, a student in the Golisano Institute ...

“We continue to be passionate about fresh light being shed on big questions. Scholars are doing lots of that in countless fields we’re active in—from psychology to history, law to literature—and of ...

Academic presses may face a slump in sales as U.S. university librarians become more cautious about buying books related to gender, politics or race in light of Donald Trump’s attack on “woke” ...

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 ...

Peer review—the process by which academics evaluate new manuscripts involving new research—has long been a cornerstone of the academic publishing process. But are large commercial publishers ...

Lamentations over the current models of academic publishing come from all corners of the scientific community. How does the system work? The scientist writes up the results of their study in the form ...

Flawed scientific articles don't just clutter journals—they misguide policies, waste taxpayer funds, and endanger lives.

An unusual lawsuit that seeks to break up an alleged multibillion-dollar “scheme” by academic-publishing behemoths has made waves since it was filed last week. While the effort gives prominent voice ...

Anilenia Hernández’s dissertation, “A Brief History of My Gendered Body,” was removed from ProQuest at the author’s request ...