Academic publishing
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 – but at potential bureaucracy cost
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
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Eliminating cheating services, even if it were possible, would do nothing to address students’ and universities’ lack of interest in learning, says Stuart Macdonald
New data show proportion of professors who are women has declined at some institutions
To defend the values of reason from political attack we need to be more discriminating about the claims made in its name, says John Hendry
But the highest value UK spin-off companies mainly come from research-intensive universities, latest figures show