Major Academic Press Calls for “Publish or Perish” Reform

Forty-two percent of survey respondents believed the transition toward open access has increased fraudulent publishing activity. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | gorsh13 and SuperCubePL/iStock/Getty Images

A university press’s efforts to assess the implications of open access pushed it to join a growing chorus of voices calling for reform of the incentive structures straining the academic publishing ecosystem.

Cambridge University Press argued in a report last week that “without urgent, sector-wide reform, the global academic publishing ecosystem is at risk of collapsing.”

“We urge academic institutions to weaken the link between academic reward and recognition and journal article output, and to adopt more holistic approaches to evaluating academic performa