Whistleblower Suit: APCs and Alleged Fraud
Gavel CC 0 Four Major Publishers Named in U.S. Federal Lawsuit A recent U.S. whistleblower lawsuit involving publishers and article processing charges is drawing a lot of attention in the open access and scholarly publishing communities. In late July 2026, Retraction Watch, a well-known and respected blog in the scientific and academic communities, published a […]
Persistent Identifiers in cIRcle
Illustration by Vicki Hamilton, courtesy of Pixabay What are Persistent Identifiers? A persistent identifier (PID) is a unique code that identifies and links an entity (a person, place, or thing) across global digital infrastructures. PIDs are important to digital repositories like cIRcle because they support long-term identification and accessibility, directing a user to a source […]