The citation index, first seeded as an embryo by the information scientist Eugene Garfield in the 1950s, was delivered in the 1960s as a fully formed child, the Science Citation Index. Its twin ...

Academic publishers are currently up in arms about the Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)—a bill that has the perfectly reasonable goal of making publicly funded research available to the ...

A guide to the complex and changing world of academic publishing and how to work with it to get your research out there The times they are a-changin’ and academic publishing is no exception. The rise ...

Anger over high cost of publishing in Nature and other titles as UK universities sign up for three-year agreement ...

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Taylor & Francis, a world-renowned academic publisher, today announced a further expansion to their Journal Home partnership, increasing ...

Learn about new models in academic publishing that could better serve academia by helping scholars get their work into the public sphere more readily, removing financial barriers for authors and ...

An international group aiming to eliminate bias and discrimination in academic publishing has today published guidance for the collection of author data that can work between different publishers – an ...