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The publisher Sage has slashed the price of publishing in its flagship open-access journal to just $99 (?63) in the wake of concern about whether researchers in the humanities and social sciences will be able to afford to comply with the UK¡¯s new open-access mandates.

Call for European Union to establish output-tracking database. Paul Jump reports

Nanoscientist waits three years to see critique of controversial ¡®discovery¡¯ printed. Paul Jump writes

Eleven journal papers have been retracted after it was discovered that they were accepted on the basis of fake reviews.

History publications press funders to rethink ¡®gold¡¯ licence and ¡®green¡¯ embargo. Paul Jump writes

Report draws US notice but experts say journals will not ¡®play RCUK game¡¯. Paul Jump reports

Scholar¡¯s use of company document elicits legal letters and ¡®cave-in¡¯ by OU. David Matthews writes

Senior scientists critical of allocation rules and assumptions behind ?100m grant for ¡®gold¡¯ fees, writes Paul Jump

Not a peep from Finch as scholarly journal firms fly off to tax havens and grow ever more profitable. Simon Lilley does the sorry sums