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BMC editors show that the quality of peer review is slightly higher in BMC Infectious Diseases that operates open peer review compared to BMC Microbiology operating single-blind peer review.
Is "Precision Medicine" another case of rebranding, as chemistry has morphed into nanotech?
GigaScience launched a project providing an alternative way to give authors credit for their work, contributing more to collaboration, transparency and better data.
PLOS ONE increases author publication costs rates in 10%.
It’s widely recognised that the established scholarly publishers skim an awful lot of money off the top of research budgets.
In theory, science isn't just self-interested. We're all driven by curiosity and pure motives to strive together to unlock the secrets of the universe and solve problems.But it's for others to determine whether or not we've unlocked or solved anything.
The Web was invented to enable scientists to collaborate.
Much of our contemporary approach to publishing research began with the launch of that journal, but what does the future hold?
The cooperation will expose to Altmetric the metadata of all the Paperity articles for proper identification. In return, Altmetric will track social mentions of these articles and measure online attention they receive, with calculation of Altmetric score.
"I never quit until I get what I'm after. Negative results are just what I'm after. They are just as valuable to me as positive results." - Thomas A. Edison.
Last week the Citizen Science Association held its first conference ever, with 600 people attending from 25 countries.
Data-Level Metrics (DLMs): NSF-funded project which will pilot a suite of metrics to track and measure data use that can be shared with funders, tenure & promotion committees, and other stakeholders.
We announce the launch of a program which integrates our submission process with those of a select set of data repositories to better support data sharing.
We’ve developed an enriched format for citations, called, appropriately enough, rich citations.
More than half of all peer-reviewed research articles published from 2007 to 2012 are now free to download somewhere on the Internet, according to a report produced for the European Commission.
“When I won this, my grandma, who lives in Fargo, North Dakota, wanted to see it..."
Pros and cons of an alternative for today’s method of allocating research funds using peer review.
There's a lot that gets done that goes unrecognized. That unrecognized work can not only be crucial for getting to the actual research outcome put forward in the form of publications, but also for reflecting important skills gained.
October 24-26, London
The PLOS Pathogens team reflects on their most widely shared article and the benefits and pitfalls of sharing science research on social media.
We know that those Open Access policies that work are the ones that have teeth. Both institutional and funder policies work better when tied to reporting requirements.
One of Japan's top stem cell researchers, died in an apparent suicide. He was famous for his ability to coax embryonic stem cells to differentiate into other cell types.
The US Department of Energy has revealed how papers from research it funds will become free to read.
The release of the 2014 Impact Factor Report was being awaited, as usual, with some anticipation. Yet this comes at a time when there is an ever-rising tide of contestation about its value in a radically changing research environment, especially in the developing world.
It has been a busy couple of weeks across the European Union, but what does that mean for science?
Simple explanation of the basic workings of the European Commission and how EU policy relates to science and research.
It's a common complaint among academics: today's researchers are publishing too much, too fast. But just how fast is the mass of scientific output actually growing?
