Copyright issues between some publishers and their authors. How to disseminate scientific articles without infringing the laws?

Despite the recent criticism on this method, systematic anonymity for reviewers seems essential for Michael McCarthy, researcher at the University of Melbourne.

A recent report on the market for social sciences and humanities (SSH) publications has been released: Global Social Science & Humanities Publishing 2013-2014 . The author underlines some of its important points: language and media used, funding, relevance in the open access environment, etc.

Common in journalism, public speeches or collective works, ghostwriting is also considered to be a form of plagiarism, an unethical behavior in the world of academic studies in general and the field of research in particular.

In the green open access environment, the embargo’ s length is the key for a good balance between vital incomes for the publisher and free access for the scientific community.

Jeffrey Bealls’ updated list of predatory publishers.

How do you judge how much a scientific study or academic article has been used?  Researcher Philip Davis is trying to provide some new answers to that question by taking a look at ‘usage half-life,’ in an effort to learn more about the academic publishing life cycle.

Complete study

Several publishing associations are banding together over a new set of principles to tell the legitimate journals from the crowd of questionable editorial practices.

The button, an easy-to-use browser bookmarklet, searches for alternative access to the article, identifying open access versions of articles/research on the internet while mapping where obstacles are inhibiting research advances around the world.

Women are seriously under-represented within the academic publishing system: this is the conclusion of two teams of scientists after reviewing the authorship of 5.4 million peer-reviewed articles.