This Spring Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West, professors at the University of Washington, are debuting a new course on how to debunk numerical bullshit in research and the mainstream media.

Tackling that first journal submission can be a great learning experience for scholars, particularly graduate students working on their PhD thesis.

How journal editors and publishers are tracking alternative metrics data and pinpointing the metrics that matter most to them in order to improve their publications.

Social media is a big part of many college students' personal lives and, whether they realize it or not, a budding component of their future professional personas as well.

Assistant professor at Stanford Law Lisa Ouellette is fostering discussions about intellectual property and patent law via her blog Written Description.

How has and how will the overload of digital information impact the way that scholars look to absorb, disseminate, and assess new knowledge in journals and beyond?

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.