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Category - Academic Publishing

Leakage of Scholarly Content: Plug or Transform?

Academic publishing companies try to plug “content leakage” caused by article sharing websites like Sci-Hub and ResearchGate. Is plugging a good solution when there is a strong need for scholarly papers behind paywalls?

Academic Publishing: Amazing Profit

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

Moving OA Article Publishing to the Default

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?