Cactus Communications’ Nishchay Shah explains why academic publishing needs purpose-built AI, how Paperpal is tackling research integrity and peer review, and where India’s domain-specific AI opportun ...

As someone whose work crosses so many disciplines, I spend a fair bit of my days skimming new developments across not only computer science, but the humanities, social sciences, arts and many other ...

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 ...

The past year has thrown divisions in how we share and consume information into sharp focus: expertise vs. disinformation, the internet vs. traditional media, the rigor of science vs. the rumor of the ...

I recently spent an hour trying to respond to a review of a paper that my lab submitted to one of the top machine learning (ML) conferences. These are considered the most prestigious places to publish ...

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 ...

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” ...

In its August edition, Resources Policy, an academic journal under the Elsevier publishing umbrella, featured a peer-reviewed study about how ecommerce has affected fossil fuel efficiency in ...

Contrary to popular belief, scientific publishing is a robust business sector. In 2015, the global STM (Scientific, Technical and Medical) publishing market alone was estimated to be worth over $25 ...

Prachee Avasthi suggests the peer-review process is somehow broken, a “scheme” that elevates credentials over the pursuit of discovery (“Academic Publishing Has Become a Racket,” op-ed, Sept. 15).

With the current focus on anti-Black racism, there has been a fresh look at all of our cherished institutions and how structural racism may be at work behind the scenes. There are biases operating in ...