As anyone who has taken a liberal arts course or completed their general education requirements should know: scholarly ...

Many of the tools below can be used in research to assist with finding, tracking, and summarizing scholarly sources. Many of these are paid tools that offer a free version with limited functionality.

Publishers of academic journals and scholarly articles are starting to use specialized software to root out instances of plagiarism and self-plagiarism. Such software, already used to check the work ...

In just over three years since their inception, these journals have demonstrated exceptional quality and scholarly value, leading to their indexing in one of the world’s most reputable academic ...

When librarian Jeffrey Beall shut down his controversial blog listing potentially ‘predatory’ scholarly publishers and journals last year, archived copies swiftly appeared elsewhere online. More than ...

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A recent Chronicle opinion essay arguing that the tenure process can be quite unfair included this line: “At least one study found that the average academic article is read by about 10 people, and ...

China has updated its list of journals that are deemed to be untrustworthy, predatory or not serving the Chinese research community’s interests. Called the Early Warning Journal List, the latest ...