Academic publishing

But funders still need to create standardised data repositories for all fields, says Magdalena Skipper

London Book Fair hears claims European open access push may aid big publishers rather than reduce their power

Publisher expected to lose about €10 million a year, while Norwegian researchers face being unable to access new papers

Clarivate warns cost of article processing charges set to fall on funders

Open access advocates hope move will create ‘snowball effect’ for others to ditch subscriptions with publisher

The publisher has reported steady growth and profit margins of more than a third but warned of threat to business from open access

Australian and New Zealand open access advocates want more attention paid to ‘green’ model

Little sympathy among scheme’s architects for suggestion that embargoed dissemination should continue to be supported

Vice-chancellors are leading contract negotiations, allowing universities to make more demands on open access and costs

Publishers accuse institutions of piracy as revenues slump

University presses need to collaborate and think big in an uncertain marketplace, says UNSW executive

Springer Nature says highly selective titles need special treatment under European-led open access initiative

University presses should not produce popular books at the expense of academic ones, say scholars

If popular books trump scholarly monographs, what’s the point of academic publishers? asks John Ross 

Everyone appears to be behind open access, but scratch the surface and you’ll find that it’s something of a touchy subject in academia, says Rachael Pells 

Research agencies tight-lipped about global initiative, but are talking behind the scenes

Negotiations with Taylor & Francis collapse over cost as journal outages spread across Europe

The academy is not the military. Addressing fellow scholars by their surnames only is unnatural and disrespectful, says David Benatar 

Accusations of interference as Melbourne University Publishing focuses on scholarly works

Data on open access trends since 2000 show some countries embracing model have also boosted collaboration 

The advent of Plan S promises to turbocharge the open access movement, but amid pushback from researchers and publishers, Rachael Pells examines whether the demand for published research truly merits the disruption

Evidence of strong public demand for access to papers is scant. Might a sophisticated database of lay summaries be more valuable?

Board of Journal of Informetrics plans to launch a rival title

Duplicate titles are being set up to get around new open-access requirements, European Commission’s envoy warns

Country moves away from subscriptions and towards ‘publish and read’ model

Paper shortages and printer closures blamed for backlog

Cambridge University Press is latest firm to reveal that some of its titles have been blocked by the state

End of prestigious print publication after 103 years stirs debate over future of journal publishing in the digital age

BMC Biology’s ‘portable peer review’ policy aims to save editors and researchers time and effort, but academics question whether authors will want to share details of past rejections

Matthew Reisz reflects on a sobering year in academic books that was thankfully enlivened by stories of Barbie dolls, chimpanzees and sex under socialism

Organisation follows nearly 200 German research organisations in cutting ties with publishing giant

Critics of open-access initiative had warned of limits on collaborations and publishing choice if major regions stayed out

Work published by women is more widely read by undergraduate and master’s students and by junior researchers than articles written by men