Director of the National Institutes of Health says that capping research journals’ open-access fees will help rein in the $19 ...

Last spring, I joined a rebellion. The entire editorial board of the prestigious scientific journal NeuroImage, of which I was a member, resigned after its publisher refused to take steps to ease ...

The National Institutes of Health announced it will put a limit on publisher fees for publicly funded research by Fiscal Year ...

The Trump administration has terminated millions worth of funding for Springer Nature, a German-owned scientific publishing giant that has long received payments for subscriptions from National ...

At root was a dispute about the cost of publishing scientific papers, who has the rights to see them, and at what price. In the case of Nature, that price was €9,500, about $11,300. The episode ...

If ‘money makes the world go round,’ then the world of scientific publishing has proved to be no exception to the rule. When the first scientific journal, The Royal Society’s Philosophical ...

Blockchain technology can wrest control of scientific publishing from the for-profit companies that dominate it. Science, and scientists, will benefit.

Public trust in scientific integrity is eroded by the politicisation of institutions under Donald Trump's US presidency. The implications extend far beyond American borders, striking at the core of ...

How Scientific Publishers’ Extreme Fees Put Profit Over Progress Last month, the editorial team of NeuroImage resigned over the “unethical fees” charged by the journal’s publisher, Elsevier.

Publishing peer review files at Nature has been optional since 2020; starting Monday, it is now automatic.

In 2017, scientists conducted the largest, most comprehensive study ever of gendered and racial harassment in the fields of astronomy and planetary science. From the women who responded, 85% ...