Papers published in ‘predatory’ journals attract little attention from scientists, and get cited much less than those in reputable publications, an analysis ...

On 30 May, many pay-to-read academic publishers breathed a sigh of relief. That day the funding agencies spearheading Plan S decided to delay the implementat...

Researchers worldwide are taking an average of 472 days less to post their studies in online repositories due to mandates from research funders requiring the...

The editorial board of an influential scientometrics journal — the Journal of Informetrics — has resigned in protest over the open-access policies of its pub...

A series of reports published last month shed light on how fatigued researchers are from conducting peer review on each others’ work. Researchers are voicing...

Jason Schmitt was working at Atlantic Records when the online site Napster disrupted the music industry by making copyrighted songs freely available. Now, th...

Early-career researchers are pleased at European leaders’ rejection of a copyright policy that would have introduced restrictions to text-and-data mining of ...

Over two thirds of researchers have released the results of at least one study they authored before the findings were formally published. That is according t...

When librarian Jeffrey Beall shut down his controversial blog listing potentially ‘predatory’ scholarly publishers and journals last year, archived copies sw...

Academics in Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia publish a higher share of their research under an open access licence than scholars in many richer nations, a repor...

This year has been an interesting one in the world of scholarly publishing. It has seen lawsuits against websites illegally or illicitly hosting paywalled sc...

A collection of web-browser plug-ins that trawl the web to find scholarly papers is making the scholarly literature more discoverable. The whole article was ...

A major scientific publishing group is taking aim at a social networking site for allowing researchers to illegally post copies of their journal papers. The ...

Almost half of the scholarly papers that people attempt to access online are now freely and legally available, according to a huge study that tracked 100,000...

More than 92% of chemistry journal papers – most of which are paywalled – are available for free from pirate site Sci-Hub, an analysis has revealed. The full...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has filed a lawsuit against a website that illegally bypasses paywalls to provide free access to millions of academic pap...

A watchdog site calling out academic publishers for incorrectly charging readers for open access papers is gaining momentum. The full story was published at ...

An online widget that trawls the Internet searching for free-to-read versions of paywalled papers has been installed more than 10,000 times since its prerele...

An unusual and perhaps precedent-setting deal will enable researchers funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to comply with a foundation requirement t...

In a surprising turn of events, librarian Jeffrey Beall has removed his lists of predatory publishers and journals for "personal reasons." Read the full arti...