RELX owns Elsevier, a major scientific publishing house with journals like Cell and Science. Criticism of high subscription fees for academic journal access and copyright issues have strained ...

When writer Cory Doctorow introduced the term "enshittification" in 2023, he captured a pattern many users had already noticed in their personal lives.

A few weeks ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health and human services secretary, made a bold proclamation during a podcast appearance: “We’re probably going to stop publishing in The Lancet, New ...

A university press’s efforts to assess the implications of open access pushed it to join a growing chorus of voices calling for reform of the incentive structures straining the academic publishing ...

Publishers often charge authors to publish their publicly-funded research. Will a federal crackdown make a difference?

In most industries, those who generate value are compensated for their work. But in some industries, it isn’t so straightforward. In academia, you freely give your work away for the prestige of being ...

A lawsuit recently filed by scientists against six major academic journal publishers shines a spotlight on a long-standing issue that echoes the broader problems in academia itself: an excessive ...

This month’s annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion and the Society for Biblical Literature is an extravaganza for academic religion publishers, with scholarly books at the heart of the ...