Here are the newest developments and trending stories in academia that caught our attention this month.

One of the top challenges and simultaneous best opportunities for new open access journals to develop a following is to find a unique niche in the marketplace.

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.

ORCID Ambassador Andy Mabbett has been working to integrate ORCID identifiers into Wikipedia and its sister projects on a global scale.

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.

The Scholastica team compiled an infographic of Timothy Gowers' research uncovering how much universities are actually paying for Elsevier journals.

To commemorate Black History Month the Scholastica team released Slavery Stories, an online destination where people can read memoirs of former American slaves.

Open access isn't the problem – it's that we have a system of publication fees, mostly a relic of a bygone era, that has provided monetary incentives for predatory publishers.

Our friends Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Simone de Beauvoir, and Maurice and Merleau-Ponty had success using Scholastica recently and wanted their story told.

This post is responding to the question: 'Hey, why isn't Scholastica open source?' To answer this, you need to know three simple truths about Scholastica that the rest of this post elaborates on...