Does Born-Digital Mean Rethinking Peer Review?
What kind of peer review is developing to evaluate long-form digital scholarship? A view from AAUP press editors.
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What kind of peer review is developing to evaluate long-form digital scholarship? A view from AAUP press editors.
With science needing to always be reviewed to be sure it is correct, using Post-publication peer review is useful for scientific accuracy.
A novel text-mining strategy that identifies articles producing biological data.
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We-Sci: a collaborative research network for computational and traditional biologists.
If you have a pressing need to read an academic paper that’s hiding behind a paywall, your quickest course of action may well be to use Sci-Hub.
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Elsevier develops and implements comprehensive new journal data guidelines.
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An overview of the type of research that has been published since launch of Wellcome Open Research.
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A template for responding the invitations for editorial and reviewer tasks for journals that you wish to boycott.
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Why the view that women are gentle, caring and empathetic, whereas men are strong, rational and dominant, is misguided.
Data labs, and the scant motivations for sharing data in basic science.
A few examples that demonstrate how universities design their open science guides.
For outstanding advocacy, innovation or contribution to scholarly peer review.
The correspondence, dating from 1949 to 1954, was found by an academic in a storeroom at the University of Manchester.
Dissemin detects papers behind pay-walls and invites their authors to upload them in one click to an open repository.