Someone exploiting a security weakness on college computer networks recently tried to illegally download the entire collection of scholarly journals kept in the JSTOR database. JSTOR, a nonprofit ...

Alexandra Elbakyan is operating a searchable online database of nearly 50 million stolen scholarly journal articles, shattering the $10 billion-per-year paywall of academic publishers. Alexandra ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taxpayers fund a lot of university research in the U.S., and these findings published in scholarly journals often produce major ...

Some very clever people have put up with a very silly system for far too long. That is the upshot of our reporting on scholarly journals this week. Academics not only provide the raw material, but ...

RELX owns Elsevier, a major scientific publishing house with journals like Cell and Science. Criticism of high subscription fees for academic journal access and copyright issues have strained ...

Stephen Cramond has consulted to academic publishers in the past. As the cost of accessing academic journal articles increases, a growing number of academic institutions are building publicly ...