When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

A study at the University of Montreal shows that the market share of the five largest research publishing houses reached 50% in 2006, rising, thanks to mergers and acquisitions, from 30% in 1996 and ...

Sci-Hub, an article pirating service, is one of the Web’s best-kept open secrets. But lately, it has been in the news, transcending debates that usually involve a small band of academics, publishers, ...

Lulu, a pioneer in the self-publishing market, has set its sights on a new segment: academics. In an a release this week, Lulu announced the launch of, Glasstree, an online publishing platform ...

Dublin, Jan. 24, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Academic Publishers - Industry Report" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The highly anticipated industry analysis of ...

AI is affecting every part of academic publishing. Readers have started to notice that AI-assisted articles are slipping into ...

Publishers of scholarly religion books, in general, are in the same boat as all other publishers—dealing with the effects of the economic recession and wrestling with the promise and perils of the ...

‘The last 20 years have seen an ever-growing chasm between academic and trade publishing on the technology front,’ writes Charkin, as he surveys differences and similarities between the two. Editor’s ...

In December 2024, the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution resigned en masse following disagreements with the journal's publisher, Elsevier. The board's grievances included claims of ...

In a bid for ‘copyright and academic freedom,’ France’s publishers cheer a court ruling on a university’s open-access policy. In their media messaging, the publishers and the Société des Gens de ...

Academic presses may face a slump in sales as U.S. university librarians become more cautious about buying books related to gender, politics or race in light of Donald Trump’s attack on “woke” ...