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.

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

To keep predatory journals off Scholastica, we've developed a set of requirements journals must meet before they can be activated and allowed to accept submissions.

New features to empower editors to keep peer review moving forward including, the ability to accept and submit reviews on behalf of reviewers, and advanced manuscript search.

We've hit the ground running this year - deploying a long list of improvements and new features to make the gantlet of scholarly publishing more streamlined and less stressful.

There are some law reviews who allow authors to submit optional demographic information when submitting articles. Here's how optional demographic information works on Scholastica.

Scholastica has launched an all-new law review submission process to help legal scholars identify which law reviews are best-suited for their article.