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Can Scientists and Their Institutions Become Their Own Open Access Publishers?
Can Scientists and Their Institutions Become Their Own Open Access Publishers?
The potential advantages and challenges involved in a shift away from for-profit journals in favor of institutional open access publishing.
10 Tips for Writing a Truly Terrible Journal Article
Some of the major mistakes early career researchers make when preparing and submitting a manuscript to a scientific journal.
Top 10 Reasons Why Blog Posts Are Better Than Scientific Papers
Envisioning the scientific paper of the future.
Citations Cartels An Emerging Problem in Scientific Publishing
Groups of authors citing each other is becoming an issue in scientific publishing. With a new approach, researchers discuss how to identify the problem.
Mega-Journal PLOS ONE Continues to Shrink
The world's largest scholarly journal, PLOS ONE, is seeing fewer and fewer researchers publish their work in it as the open-access publishing market evolves.
Quantity and/or Quality? The Importance of Publishing Many Papers
Highly productive researchers have significantly higher probability to produce top cited papers.
Narrative Style Influences Citation Frequency in Climate Change Science
Articles with more narrative abstracts are cited more often.
Publication Bias and the Canonization of False Facts
Publication bias, in which positive results are preferentially reported by authors and published by journals, can restrict the visibility of evidence against false claims and allow such claims to be canonized inappropriately as facts.
What Happens to Rejected Papers?
Neuroskeptic« No Need To Worry About False Positives in fMRI?What Happens to Rejected Papers?By Neuroskeptic | January 3, 2017 2:43 pm32The pain of rejection is one that every scientist has felt: but what happens to papers after they’re declined by a journal?In a new study, researchers Earnshaw et al. traced the fate of almost 1,000 manuscripts which had been submitted to and rejected by ear, nose and throat journal Clinical Otolaryngology between 2011 to 2013.
Fake News Invades Science and Science Journalism as well as Politics
Fake news and "post-truth," which may have played a role in the 2016 elections, are also problems in science publishing and science journalism.
A Peek Inside the Strange World of Fake Academia
Mr. Beall’s website, which identifies “predatory open access scholarly publishers” that masquerade as scholarly journals, has grown to 923 publishers from 18 in 2011.
Free‐To‐Publish, Free‐To‐Read, Or Both? Cost, Equality of Access, and Integrity in Science Publishing
Free‐To‐Publish, Free‐To‐Read, Or Both? Cost, Equality of Access, and Integrity in Science Publishing
Universal Green OA Is the Most Efficient and Fairest of Science Publishing Strategies.
Ten Simple Rules for Structuring Papers
10 simple rules to help you get across the main idea of your paper.
Predatory Publishers Gain Foothold in Indian Academia’s Upper Echelon
Researchers at top-flight institutions are not immune to charms of questionable journals
We Read Spam a Lot
Prospective cohort study of unsolicited and unwanted academic invitations.
Guidelines on Good Science Publishing
French, German, and UK's joint guidelines for high-quality publications in scientific journals.
Why I Still Won’t Review For or Publish With Elsevier–And Think You Shouldn’t Either
A list of some of the shady things Elsevier has been previously caught doing
Author-Initiated Peer Review of Manuscripts
A little over 1 year ago, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) launched mSphere as an open-access, online, pan-microbial sciences journal. We established two major goals: publish cutting-edge science and implement policies and processes to make the publication experience less onerous for authors.
Letting Researchers Choose Their Peer Reviewers Gets Another Shot
The open-access microbiology journal mSphere will give authors a "super-fast track" option toward publication. The idea has some ardent fans, but is also drawing doubts.
Peer Review Post-mortem: How a Flawed Aging Study was Published in Nature
How could an article with numerous shortcomings be published in top-tier journal Nature? Hester van Santen reveals how the gate-keepers of science knowingly let flawed research slip through.
The Rise of Open Access Mega-Journals
A graph shows the dramatic rise of open access mega-journals such as Plos One, which offer to publish papers based on their scientific soundness rather than the significance or novelty of the results, and which accept research across a broad range of disciplines.
Swiss Army Knives of Scholarly Communication
A few slides comparing ResearchGate, Academia, Mendeley and others.
Over 600 Springer Nature Journals Commit to New Data Sharing Policies
More than 600 journals across Nature Research, Springer, BioMed Central and Palgrave Macmillan have committed to encouraging good practice in the sharing and archiving and citation of research data by adopting new Springer Nature research data policies.
PubPub
A free and open tool for collaborative editing, instant publishing, continuous review, and grassroots journals. PubPub is supported and advised by many MIT Media Lab professors, students, and friends.
The licensing of bioRxiv preprints
PeerJ offers the better technology and user experience than bioRxiv, but bioRxiv has greater adoption in the biodata sciences.
On Publishing and the Sneetches: A Wake-up Call?
To claim credit for a discovery, we publish it in a peer-reviewed journal; to get a job in academia or money to run a lab, we present piles of these published papers to universities and funding agencies. Publishing is so embedded in the practice of science that whoever controls the journals controls access to the entire profession. It is, therefore, worth examining to whom we have entrusted the keys to the kingdom of science.
QOAM.eu - Quality Open Access Market
A market place for scientific and scholarly journals which publish articles in open access. Quality scoring of the journals in QOAM is based on academic crowd sourcing; price information includes institutional licensed pricing.
Big Biology Projects Warm up to Preprints
Consortium backed by US NIH is first major biology programme to mandate online publication of results ahead of peer review.
Post-publication Criticism is Crucial, but Should be Constructive
In an era of online discussion, debate must remain nuanced and courteous.
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