Category - Academic Publishing

A recent survey report shows that scientific activity is not declining but are shifting to other research activities.

This week is Fair Dealing & Fair Use Week, a time to celebrate using and sharing the fruits of our minds in a fair way.

Academic publishing has long been a low investment high profit business. How can academic publishers maintain such a successful business model?

At the beginning of 2020, a massive open access (OA) contract was finalized between 700+ research institutions in Germany and the major academic publisher Springer Nature. How does this agreement affect researchers in Hong Kong?

It's still Open Access Week 2019 and how better to celebrate it than to watch a movie?

Academic publishing is undergoing a transformational change. Many institutions collectively negotiated agreements with major publishers with non-traditional coverage. What does this trend mean to researchers like you?

Writing peer reviews for journals is more than an academic contribution; it improves your research writing, and help you see like an editor. Early career researchers can use Publons Academy to enter the world of peer reviewers.

As a researcher and author, do you prefer "pay to read" or "pay to publish"? A related question is, who pays?

Almost all researchers at HKUST have ORCID iD. Do you have yours? ORCID is an example of researcher identifiers, which is one out of three types of persistent identifiers (PID). What are all these identifiers? Why should researchers care?

From a draft to a published journal paper, your work transforms through different versions. Understanding the terminology in this publishing process has become necessary for effective communication in the scholar community.