The Running Costs of eLife 2.0
Paul Shannon, Head of Technology, looks at the costs of running eLife’s own continuous publication platform four months after the launch of eLife 2.0.
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Academics Step Down from Posts on Elsevier Journals
High price of journals 'placing strain on acceptance' of division of labour between researchers and publishers, says professor.
Academics and Copyright Ownership: Ignorant, Confused or Misled?
Elizabeth Gadd takes a look at the contradictions between scholarly culture and copyright culture, and the cognitive dissonance created.
Financial Ties of Medical Journal Editors Should Be Disclosed
Approximately half of the editors of 52 prestigious U.S. medical journals received payments from the pharmaceutical and medical device industry in 2014.
It’s Time to Do Something About Predatory Publishers
Sure, it’s happened to all of us — the invitation to be keynote speaker at a conference you’ve never heard of or an invitation to sit on an editorial board for a journal with a name you don’t recognize.
Expertise in Sciences and the Decision of What Is Publishable: A Noble yet Endangered Task
Expertise in Sciences and the Decision of What Is Publishable: A Noble yet Endangered Task
How is a scientific article accepted for publication in an academic journal? What is the role of peer reviewers? Where does the system go astray?
Ireland's Health Research Board Launches Their Own Publication Platform: HRB Open Research
Ireland's Health Research Board Launches Their Own Publication Platform: HRB Open Research
Ireland's Health Research Board is the first public funder to launch their own publication platform.
Imagining The "Open" University: Sharing Scholarship to Improve Research and Education
Imagining The "Open" University: Sharing Scholarship to Improve Research and Education
This Perspective article argues that universities should take action to support open scholarship that benefits society and to return to their core missions of knowledge dissemination, community engagement, and public good.
Who Owns Digital Science?
In analyzing the marketplace of scholarly publishers and scientific workflow providers, a key strategic question is: Who owns Digital Science?
Reproducibility: Automated
Repurposing continuous integration tools for scientific analyses takes the headache out of reproducible research.
Is The Academic Publishing Industry Ripe For Disruption?
Taxpayers sometimes have to pay three times for any scientific article.
Nature Publisher Prepares 2018 Stock Market Listing
SpringerNature, the publisher of science magazines Nature and Scientific American, is preparing a 2018 stock market listing valuing the company at up to 4 billion euros.
Popularity of ArXiv.Org Within Computer Science
In theoretical computer science and machine learning, over 60% of published papers are on arXiv.
Scientists in the Lurch After Imprecise MHRD Notice About 'Paid Journals'
A "completely confusing statement" in a gazette notification has scientists wondering which of their papers will and won't be considered towards their promotions in the future.
DEAL and Springer Nature: First Results of the Negotiation
Cost-neutral extension of the existing Springer contracts by one year.
Science Is Imperfect. We Should Admit That.
One prominent research journal just updated its description to explain why it won’t be perfect—and that’s great.
Publishers Take ResearchGate to Court
Scholarly publishing giants Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS) have filed a lawsuit in Germany against ResearchGate, a popular academic networking site, alleging copyright infringement on a mass scale.
ResearchGate and Springer Nature Plan Cooperation
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.
Why Can Elsevier Keep Insulting Scholars without Consequences?
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.
A Genealogy of Open Access: Negotiations Between Openness and Access to Research
A Genealogy of Open Access: Negotiations Between Openness and Access to Research
Publishing means different things to different communities and individual approaches to OA are representative of this fact.
Support Science by Publishing in Scientific Society Journals
While few will disagree with their motives, the authors provide no roadmap for scientific societies. It may be time to learn from the successes of commercial rivals.
Publishers Increasingly in Control of Scholarly Infrastructure and This Is Why We Should Care
Publishers Increasingly in Control of Scholarly Infrastructure and This Is Why We Should Care
There is an urgent need by research communities and public agencies to collaboratively reclaim the infrastructure around the academic knowledge production process.
Naiveté Scene - Open Source vs. Scale in Scholarly Publishing
Once again, the term "open" requires further thought to probe the pros and cons. With open source, we may be once again doing things that make the big bigger and the small less relevant.
Wikipedia Shapes Language in Science Papers
Experiment traces how online encyclopaedia influences research write-ups.
What Does the Future Hold for Scientific Journals? Visual Abstracts and Other Tools for Communicating Research
What Does the Future Hold for Scientific Journals? Visual Abstracts and Other Tools for Communicating Research
As journals move away from print formats and embrace web-based content, design-centered thinking will allow for engagement of a larger audience.
Publishing a Reproducible Paper
The perceived and actual barriers experienced by researchers attempting to do reproducible research.
Coko & eLife Partner on First PubSweet Fueled Journals Submission and Peer-Review Platform
Coko & eLife Partner on First PubSweet Fueled Journals Submission and Peer-Review Platform
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 Stress of Academic Publishing
The waiting is, indeed, the hardest part, but some academics cope with it better than others.
Publishers Go After Networking Site for Illicit Sharing of Journal Papers
Publishers Go After Networking Site for Illicit Sharing of Journal Papers
Letter requests that ResearchGate consider removing content in violation of copyright.
Plan for New Medical Preprint Server Receives a Mixed Response
Some worry that posting unvetted medical manuscripts could cause problems.
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