A Scholarly Sting Operation Shines a Light on ‘Predatory’ Journals
When Dr. Fraud applied to 360 randomly selected open-access academic journals asking to be an editor, 48 accepted her and four made her editor in chief.
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Predatory Journals Recruit Fake Editor
An investigation finds that dozens of academic titles offered 'Dr Fraud' — a sham, unqualified scientist — a place on their editorial board.
Medical School to Examine whether Professor Published Paper Partly Written by Chemical Company
Medical School to Examine whether Professor Published Paper Partly Written by Chemical Company
Court documents suggest Monsanto helped “ghost write” paper
Mixed Progress on Digital Transformation
A study analysing digital transformation in the publishing industry found that 25 per cent of publishers see themselves as 'lagging' behind the rest of the industry.
Predatory Journals: Exposing the Flaws in Academic Research
The constant demand for predatory journals has now exposed significant flaws in the academic research establishment that questions the integrity of the research system.
Transparency Upgrade for Nature Journals
The Nature journals continue journey towards greater rigour.
Connecting Collaborative Authoring to Peer Review
Building a coherent collaboration environment that facilitates scholarly communication workflows of social scientists in the roles of authors, reviewers, editors and readers.
Linked Data Notifications
A resource-centric communication protocol for for decentralised article publishing, annotations and peer to peer interactions.
White Paper Calls for 21st Century Solution to Serials Crisis
Democratization of journal publishing: the key to lowering journal costs and facilitating Open Access.
Access, Ethics and Piracy
The efficacy and ethics of piracy, placing ‘guerrilla open access’ within a longer history of piracy and access to knowledge.
Citation Cartel Or Editor Gone Rogue?
How much can a single editor distort the citation record? Investigation documents rogue editor's coercion of authors to cite his journal, papers.
Quantifying the Effect of Editor–Author Relations on Manuscript Handling Times
Quantifying the Effect of Editor–Author Relations on Manuscript Handling Times
Prior co-authorship relations have a large and significant influence on manuscript handling times, speeding up the editorial decision on average by 19 days.
The Current Peer Review System Is Unsustainable-Awaken the Paid Reviewer Force!
I learned not to develop any hard feelings against the reviewers or the editors...
Reformatting Wastes Public Funds
Limited public funds for scientific research are being spent on reformatting manuscripts for different journals, without any apparent gain for science or society.
The Future of Scientific Publishing
Open access publishing is gaining more and more momentum, and post-publication peer review is becoming more common. Those developments have both upsides and downsides.
A 21st Century Solution to the Serials Crisis
How centralization of journals led to the serials crisis and why democratizing digital journal publishing using services is the key to fixing it.
Illegal File Hosting Site, ResearchGate, Acquires Massive Financial Investment
Illegal File Hosting Site, ResearchGate, Acquires Massive Financial Investment
Financing massive-scale copyright infringement.
Dokieli: Decentralised Article Publishing
A clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions.
Should AI Be Used in Science Publishing?
New technologies could make the scientific review process more objective and accurate — but some worry about the risks of letting computers determine what gets published.
How Bidding for Publishing Services Could Lower Academic Journal Costs
How Bidding for Publishing Services Could Lower Academic Journal Costs
Why journal publishing should be upended from the current model, in which institutions pay publishers for access to content, to one in which the academic community pays for services to publish content and retains ownership of research.
The Journal of Open Source Software
A free, open-access journal designed to publish brief papers about research software.
Emory Receives $1.2 Million to Shape Future of Scholarly Publishing
Emory College of Arts and Sciences has launched a $1.2 million effort that positions it to be a national leader in the future of scholarly publishing. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is funding the multiyear initiative to support long-form, open-access publications in the humanities in partnership with university presses.
Who Has All the Content? A Taxonomy of Services
Several services attempt to gather up “all” of the content across publishers. This post provides an overview and taxonomy.
No Publication Without Confirmation
Proposing a new kind of paper that combines the flexibility of basic research with the rigour of clinical trials.
Got "Significosis?" Here Are the Five Diseases of Academic Publishing
How to prevent, diagnose, and treat the five diseases of academic publishing.
Forecasting the Growth of Preprints in Biology
Funders, scientists, and journal editors will continue to play vital roles in defining a communication system that embraces both modern technology and the human need for curation.
U of C Axes Hundreds of Journal Subscriptions
Universities across the country are struggling with rising journal prices
Science Journals Permit Open-Access Publishing for Gates Foundation Scholars
Science Journals Permit Open-Access Publishing for Gates Foundation Scholars
The provisional agreement may set a precedent for other funders and journal publishers.
Elsevier Selling Access to Open Access Again
Elsevier have been caught selling access to paid-for “open articles in 2014, 2015, and 2016.
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