A Creative Commons license is irrevocable; it says so right in the license. But it also says you can change your mind and distribute the work differently, or not at all. What does this mean?
A cafe in Japan helps writers overcome their procrastination.
A.J. Boston offers recommendations for how funding agencies and research institutions can better lead the change toward open access.
In a new twist on academic fraud, a company now offers to pay you to write and publish book reviews that will be credited to someone else.
Robert Harington and Melinda Baldwin discuss whether peer review has a role to play in uncovering scientific fraud.
ASAPBio offers set of principles and guidelines for preprint feedback.
An interview with Julian Wilson about IOP Publishing’s new transformative agreement with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network.
The restoration of a glorious portrait raises questions about the scholarly Version of Record.
If you can’t sneak your book into the library, then maybe a catchy tune can help with your sales.
Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) committee members champion the benefits of standardizing the transfer of papers between journals.
An interview with Helen Zhang on the proposal for an Academic Integrity Awareness Index.
A look back at Joe Esposito’s 2008 essay on Open Access — what has come to pass and what has changed since then?
Katie Einhorn, Steph Pollock, and Nick Paolini discuss APA’s efforts to collect demographic information during manuscript submission. In this interview, they share what they did, why, how, and what this means for other publishing organizations.
Revisiting a 2018 primer on the business side of publishing. The defining property of traditional publishing is editorial selection. That is what publishing is about.
As more publishers semantically enrich documents, Todd Carpenter considers whether links are the same as citations