Academic publishing
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 – 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
Publishers prepared to add names to journal articles for a price, study finds
Europe’s funding councils oppose idea of requiring researchers to obtain a licence if they want to quote their colleagues or news articles
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
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Academic social network accused of infringing copyright on a massive scale