Journals publishers are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the value they bring to research through added editorial quality in an era of "author pays" Open Access, attendees at an NUJ seminar hosted by the Wellcome Institute heard last week (6th February).

The NUJ's Pete Wrobel said the union had been "...

Oxford University Press has launched a roaming service for students and academics who read journals via their mobile phones. 

Students and academics can now connect their mobile device to their institution's Oxford Journals subscription and read protected journals content even once they have left the institution's...

The coalition government is set on pushing through an open-access model for taxpayer- funded research, even if details on how new business models for publishers will function are yet to be worked out.

Speaking to about 100 publishers at the Publishers Association’s annual general meeting, universities minister David Willetts...

Academics have called for a boycott of publisher Elsevier, saying it is involved in "the exploitation of a monopoly position" in overcharging for its online journals. But the publisher has said they have got their facts wrong and asked them to reconsider. 

Over 2,000 academics and researchers thus far have signed a...