Avoiding Predators in Publishing
As the number of publishers that choose profit over ethics grows, find out how to avoid their scams and support organizations promoting best practices in scholarly communication.
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Platform Diving - Top Journals, UX, and the Lure of Harmonization
A review of top journals in 18 fields show they are on a variety of platforms, suggesting cognitive burden for users which may be driving them to aggregated options with unified user experiences.
Why I Don't Send Papers to Journals
Journal publishing can no longer keep up with the pace of scientific research.
Genuine Semantic Publishing
Paper providing a vision transcending the current publishing paradigm.
EU Moves into Publishing
The European Commission is looking to create its own open-access publishing platform for papers that emerge from its €80bn Horizon 2020 programme.
Journals Blacklist Creator Blames University for Website Closure
Jeffrey Beall says he faced 'intense pressure' from the University of Colorado Denver and feared losing his job
The Open Access Journal Starter Kit
The OA Journal Starter Kit has all the information you'll need to get a new open access journal up and running.
Critic of 'Predatory' Publishing Returns with Scathing Message
Jeffrey Beall is back after a five-month silence, with criticism for universities as well as fake publishers.
A Closer Look at the Sci-Hub Corpus
Bastian Greshake has analysed the full Sci-Hub corpus and found that articles are being downloaded from all over the world, more recently published papers are among the most requested, and there is a marked overrepresentation of requested articles from journals publishing on chemistry.
Impressions From the First Published Results-Free Article
What results-free review might mean for authors, reviewers, editors and readers.
Do We Still Need Publishers in Academia?
Why do we need middlemen in academia in the era of electronic publishing?
Predicting the Paper of the Future
How academic publishing may change in the years to come.
Why We Can't Trust Academic Journals to Tell the Scientific Truth
Academic journals don’t select the research they publish on scientific rigour alone. So why aren’t academics taking to the streets about this?
Welcome to eLife 2.0
We’re moving the online journal forward, and we hope you’ll join us on our journey.
Pay-to-View Blacklist of Predatory Journals Set to Launch
Private firm says its watchlist of untrustworthy journals will be objective and transparent — but not free.
Zenodo Now Supports DOI Versioning
This feature enables users to update the record’s files after they have been made public and researchers to easily cite either specific versions of a record or to cite, via a top-level DOI, all the versions of a record.
How Much Citation Manipulation Is Acceptable?
Is citation manipulation a moral problem or an accounting problem?
How Big a Problem Are Articles that Should Be OA but End Up Behind Paywalls
How Big a Problem Are Articles that Should Be OA but End Up Behind Paywalls
In recent years, observers have noticed that articles for which an APC has been paid are not always made freely available. How pervasive is this problem?
It's Time for Academics to Take Back Control of Research Journals
The evolution to a high-profit industry was never planned. Academics need to make the case for lower-cost journals.
Who Should Speak for Academics over the Future of Publishing?
Learned societies used to be seen as the guardians of academic prestige. They should act on that moral authority and reclaim their oversight of peer review, says Aileen Fyfe
Re-Envisioning a Future in Scholarly Communication
The scholarly process is ridden with single points of failures at all stages.
Wiley Turns to Overleaf
John Wiley and Sons has announced a partnership with Overleaf, a cloud-based, collaborative authoring tool.
Publish Houses of Brick, Not Mansions of Straw
Papers need to include fewer claims and more proof to make the scientific literature more reliable.
Cooperation And Liaison Between Universities And Editors (CLUE)
Recommendations on best practice
We Can Shift Academic Culture Through Publishing Choices
Choices researchers can make to stop exploiting themselves and discriminating against others.
The Frustrating Process of Manuscript Submission
We suggest a centralized facility for submitting to journals—one that would benefit scientists and not only publishers.
Journal Publishers' Big Deals: Are They Worth It?
With exponential increases that reached 402% over a 20-year span, the spiralling cost of these large bundles rapidly put pressure on available budgets for books and journals from smaller learned societies.
Why Has Submitting a Manuscript to a Journal Become So Difficult?
A call to simplify an overly complicated process
LSU Takes Disagreement with Elsevier to Court
Louisiana State University (LSU) takes Elsevier to court in an attempt to settle a disagreement with the publisher about its $1.64 million contract.
LSU Sues Elsevier for Breach of Contract
Louisiana State University (LSU) filed a lawsuit on February 27, 2017, against international science publisher Elsevier B.V. for breach of contract resulting from the publisher’s exclusion of the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine from accessing content licensed by the LSU Libraries.
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