On the Changing Infrastructure of Scholarly Communication
Peter Suber and the Open Access Movement
Send us a link
Peter Suber and the Open Access Movement
Public Knowledge Project - PKP is a multi-university initiative developing (free) open source software and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly publishing.
White House wants to reduce indirect payments from 28% to 10%.
Glen Wright on the lighter side of scholarly collaboration
The open access contracts between the Dutch universities and publishers Elsevier and Springer have to be publicly disclosed. That is the verdict of the committee charged with considering the appeal of the publishers against a freedom of information request.
A SPARC analysis of Open Data and Open Science policies across Europe.
Today we’re rolling out new features in Sheets that make it even easier for you to visualize and share your data, and find insights your teams can act on.
In this article Robert Harington assesses the Diamond open access model for society journal publishing.
A new book by actor Alan Alda is all about communication — and miscommunication — between doctors, scientists and civilians.
Striking a Balance: Embracing Change While Preserving Tradition in Scholarly Communications
How academic publishing may change in the years to come.
Peer review recognition company Publons is set to expand under new owners. Could this boost peer review and stop it being seen as an onerous, thankless task?
Publons wants scientists to be rewarded for assessing others’ work.
Confidential feedback from many interacting reviewers can help editors make better, quicker decisions.
This feature enables users to update the record’s files after they have been made public and researchers to easily cite either specific versions of a record or to cite, via a top-level DOI, all the versions of a record.
Nature will publish more details on experiments described in life-sciences papers.
Thousands of open access papers have mistakenly asked readers to pay access fees, but publishers are correcting the errors.
Race-blind reviews very difficult and may not help, researchers say
Private firm says its watchlist of untrustworthy journals will be objective and transparent — but not free.
We’re moving the online journal forward, and we hope you’ll join us on our journey.
The time that you’re absolutely sick of saying it is about the time that your target audience has heard it for the first time.
Partly in response to the so-called 'reproducibility crisis' in science, researchers are embracing a set of practices that aim to make the whole endeavor more transparent, more reliable – and better.
Confidential feedback from many interacting reviewers can help editors make better, quicker decisions.
A few years back, scientists at the biotechnology company Amgen set out to replicate 53 landmark studies that argued for new approaches to treat cancers using both existing and new molecules. They were able to replicate the findings of the original research only 11 percent of the time.
Is citation manipulation a moral problem or an accounting problem?