We’re reaching the end of December and it’s time for us again to tell you about the most trending discussions in the scholarly publishing industry this month. The issues that received attention in Read More
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The year 2016 was super exciting for the Editage Insights team! In our third year, we continued to assist researchers, editors, and publishers across countries and fields in reaching out to fellow academics and sharing their Read More
Over 60 German academic institutions have annulled their subscription contract with Dutch publishing giant Elsevier, which will leave thousands of researchers without access to several journals owned by Elsevier. High subscription costs have become a major Read More
This post is authored by Sara Killingworth, Manager, Solutions Marketing at Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). A few months ago, a colleague and I at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) attended a Read More
A new metrics has arrived on the academic publishing scene. On December 8, publishing giant Elsevier announced the launch of a new metric CiteScore, a set of metrics that measure the quality of academic journals. At Read More
For long now, we have recognized the need for ethics training. The word “retraction” is quite a dreaded word and no one wants their manuscript retracted. At the same time, many authors do not know Read More
The library of National Taiwan University (NTU) published a notice on its website saying that from 2017, it planned to discontinue its subscriptions to Elsevier’s ScienceDirect journals, citing high subscription costs as the main reason Read More
Editage Insights invites you to participate in a global survey to help the scholarly publishing industry understand what authors think about the academic publishing system and what they would like to change about it. The Read More
On 4 December, the Breakthrough Foundation honored physicists, life scientists, and mathematicians with the Breakthrough Prize worth $25 million for making significant contributions to their fields. The Breakthrough Prize is the most lucrative award in science and Read More
The John Maddox Prize is a joint initiative of the science journal Nature, the Kohn Foundation, and the charity Sense About Science to recognize individuals who have displayed courage in promoting science and evidence for Read More