A lawsuit recently filed by scientists against six major academic journal publishers shines a spotlight on a long-standing issue that echoes the broader problems in academia itself: an excessive ...

Taxpayers fund a lot of university research in the U.S., and these findings published in scholarly journals often produce major breakthroughs in medicine, vehicle safety, food safety, criminal justice ...

The 2026 issue of the AAUP's Journal of Academic Freedom seeks submissions on initiatives that have been pursued, strategies that have been deployed, coalitions that have been built, and work that ...

I pray that the new year, 2026, unfolds with fresh opportunities, meaningful growth, and endless possibilities. Amid ...

An emeritus professor at the University of Missouri, Arthur Jago, in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article was skeptical of the claim that a majority of academic journal articles are never ...

When writer Cory Doctorow introduced the term "enshittification" in 2023, he captured a pattern many users had already noticed in their personal lives.

In the dozen years we have co-edited the journal ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, we have read many external reports supplied by colleagues in our discipline. We have also written ...

Adam Habib does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

BY MONDAY NTO BEREH The concern raised by Timi Olubiyi (2026)  regarding the proliferation of predatory journals and ...

A few months into the second Trump administration, major medical journals received letters from Edward R. Martin Jr., who was ...