Academic publishers face antitrust lawsuit - Chemical & Engineering News

Six scholarly publishers have been hit with an antitrust lawsuit for allegedly appropriating billions of dollars in public funds that the plaintiffs argue would otherwise have been used to carry ... Read More

Lawsuit highlights how prestige drives academic publishing

A federal antitrust lawsuit against a group of megapublishers highlights how academia’s system of rewarding researchers for publishing in certain journals has undermined their leverage. A prolific ... Read More

Academic Publishers Hit with Antitrust Suit over Peer Review

That’s the claim made by a potential class of academics and researchers in an antitrust suit filed last week in Brooklyn against six major academic journal publishers: Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer ... Read More

‘A Massive Scandal': Does a Landmark Lawsuit Against Academic ...

“Gag rules.” Price fixing. “Anticompetitive agreements.” A new lawsuit seeks to skewer academic-publishing heavyweights, but experts have their doubts. Read More

Scientists' suit against top academic publishers lays bare deep ...

In a stark sign of scientists’ escalating frustration with how academic journals operate, researchers are taking on six publishing behemoths in court, arguing that the system is ... Read More

Academic publishers face class action over ‘peer review’ pay, other ...

A University of California Los Angeles neuroscience professor has sued six major academic journal publishers, claiming in a proposed class action that they violated antitrust law by barring ... Read More