arXiv announced a rate-limiting policy applying to all submitters and categories, effective October 1, 2026, citing an unsustainable surge in paper submissions. The organization reported September 2024 submissions of 40,363, roughly double the figure from two years earlier, generating nearly 9,000 support tickets for staff and moderators. arXiv said AI tools are helping drive the increase, and moderators are seeing more thin, narrow-scope papers that fail to meet scholarly standards.
blog.arxiv.org
· 2026-10-01
Vita is a new English-language, open-access biology journal jointly funded by China's Higher Education Press and Westlake University, with its first print issue released in July. It waives article-processing charges for authors and is fully Chinese-owned and Chinese-published, unlike many past China-based journals that partnered with international publishers.
nature.com
· 2026-09-29
A preprint led by Lisa Matthias at Humboldt University of Berlin tracked 440 academic journals that began as diamond open-access, meaning free for both authors and readers, but later shifted to charging fees between 2009 and 2026. Most of these titles, 369, moved to gold open access with article-processing charges, 52 adopted hybrid models, and 19 became fully paywalled, with fees ranging from $8 to $5,300 depending on publisher type.
nature.com
· 2026-09-22
The publisher has issued a formal author correction to a previously published paper reporting that inhibiting the AhR protein promotes nerve axon regeneration through a stress-to-growth cellular switch. The correction notice itself does not detail what specific errors were fixed, only confirming that changes were made to the original publication.
nature.com
· 2026-09-07
GoKawiil