Here's the top news in academia this month in open access, academic publishing, higher education, and more.

Open access news took center stage this month, as academics from around the world came together to celebrate the 8th annual global Open Access Week.

The 2014 Open Access Week kickoff focused on the importance of early-career scholars pushing the OA movement forward and challenging existing perceptions of academic publishing.

Here are the newest developments and trending stories in academia that caught our attention this month.

If you want people to know about your scholarly work you have to give them an accessible place, or ideally variety of places, to learn about it.

While you can't control the opinions of reviewers, you can take ownership of the submission process to give your paper a boost towards publication.

Scholastica started an experiment to keep information flowing across team areas: weekly company-wide pairing, called Pairing Thursdays.

Can we make creativity happen? There is in fact much more intent behind creative breakthroughs than we often credit or realize.

ORCID Ambassador Andy Mabbett has been working to integrate ORCID identifiers into Wikipedia and its sister projects on a global scale.

The Scholastica team was excited to attend the 12th bi-annual ORCID Outreach Meeting in Chicago, IL.