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ResearchGate and Springer Nature have been in serious discussions for some time about finding solutions to sharing scientific journal articles online, while at the same time protecting intellectual property rights.
This article provides a quantitative analysis of peer review as an emerging field of research by revealing patterns and connections between authors, fields and journals from 1950 to 2016.
A browser extension that finds free scholarly full texts, metrics, and provides quick citation and sharing links automatically.
A systematic review
1 experiment. 1,011 people. Here's the full list of the legion of the unsung.
Academic publishers in general and Elsevier in particular have a reputation for their ruthless profiteering, using professional negotiators pitting hapless librarians against their own faculty.
Opinions are divided on whether the surge in popularity of pre-prints represent a field-wide disaster or the coming of a populist revolution.
Publishing means different things to different communities and individual approaches to OA are representative of this fact.
The American physicists Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish were honored for dreaming up and realizing the experiment that confirmed the existence of gravitational waves.
There is an urgent need by research communities and public agencies to collaboratively reclaim the infrastructure around the academic knowledge production process.
A bibliometric analysis of citers.
Knowledge Lab project to investigate programming features and data science environments.
Organization and presentation of visual information in the scientific literature.
After almost 25 years since Stevan Harnad’s “subversive proposal“, now, finally, scholars and the public have a range of avenues at their disposal to access nearly every scholarly article.
I was reminded today about the wonderful history of Nature in it's claim that it would make all papers reporting a new genome sequence freely and openly available.
As journals move away from print formats and embrace web-based content, design-centered thinking will allow for engagement of a larger audience.
The world's first open-source, standards-based annotation capability in an EPUB viewer.
Earlier this week, eLife announced a partnership with Coko to build an open source solution for submission, peer review and processing of manuscripts. The limitations of the currently available systems are substantial.
The paper addresses the concepts and practices of “open notebook science” as an innovation within the contemporary Open Science movement.
The Open APC initiative releases datasets on fees paid for Open Access journal articles by universities and research institutions under an Open Database License.
Self-citations and academic assessments: Including the s-index as an additional metric thus provides important context to guide decisions based on academic value.
As the h-index becomes the standard for measuring researcher impact, the risk for gaming the system grows.
Trust that reviewers will treat manuscripts received for peer review as confidential communications is an essential tenet of peer review. New results suggest that breaches of this trust do occur.
Instead of making scientists compete for grants based on project proposals, research funding could simply be divided equally among all ‘qualified’ researchers, according to a new paper.
