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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.
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 is the first public funder to launch their own publication platform.
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.
In analyzing the marketplace of scholarly publishers and scientific workflow providers, a key strategic question is: Who owns Digital Science?
Repurposing continuous integration tools for scientific analyses takes the headache out of reproducible research.
Taxpayers sometimes have to pay three times for any scientific article.
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.
In theoretical computer science and machine learning, over 60% of published papers are on arXiv.
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.
Cost-neutral extension of the existing Springer contracts by one year.
One prominent research journal just updated its description to explain why it won’t be perfect—and that’s great.
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 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.
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.
Publishing means different things to different communities and individual approaches to OA are representative of this fact.
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.
There is an urgent need by research communities and public agencies to collaboratively reclaim the infrastructure around the academic knowledge production process.
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.
Experiment traces how online encyclopaedia influences research write-ups.
As journals move away from print formats and embrace web-based content, design-centered thinking will allow for engagement of a larger audience.
The perceived and actual barriers experienced by researchers attempting to do reproducible research.
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 waiting is, indeed, the hardest part, but some academics cope with it better than others.
Letter requests that ResearchGate consider removing content in violation of copyright.
Some worry that posting unvetted medical manuscripts could cause problems.
With science needing to always be reviewed to be sure it is correct, using Post-publication peer review is useful for scientific accuracy.
Like many others in the scholarly community, we were very disappointed to learn about the recent acquisition by Elsevier of bepress, the provider of the popular Digital Commons repository platform.
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.
With Substance and Stencila, eLife is developing the technology required to publish computationally reproducible research articles online.
