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Springer Nature has developed a standardised, common framework for the research data policies of all its journals.
Technology, greed, a lack of clear rules and norms, hyper-competitiveness and a certain amount of corruption have resulted in confusion and anarchy in the world of scientific communication.
At ScienceOpen, we have over 28 million article records all available for public, post-publication peer review (PPPR), 3 million of which are full-text Open Access. But is there anything we can do to increase its usage and adoption as part of a more open research culture?
Authorea seeks to marry the ease of writing on Word or Google Docs with the power of LaTeX, HTML, and Git.
The European Commission, which spends more than €10 billion annually on research, may set up a “publishing platform” for the scientists it funds, in an attempt to accelerate the transition to open-access publishing in Europe.
Advances in automation technology mean that robots and artificial intelligence programs are capable of performing an ever-greater share of our work,
Commission may follow Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation in establishing a rapid-publication platform.
Academic publishing is becoming more about establishing a pecking order and less about pursuing knowledge.
Surging investment in machine learning is vaulting Google into the scientific stratosphere.
Citation cartels are groups of researchers and journals that team up with the specific intent of affecting the number of citations their publications receive.
Global health charity is latest funder to start its own publishing ‘channel’ — and the European Commission is considering its own service.
eLife has made it possible to submit the work first to eLife and then post the manuscript directly to bioRxiv.
It is common practice for medical researchers to hoard results for months or years until research is published in an academic journal. Even then, the data underpinning a study are often not made public.
A cross-sectional comparison of characteristics of potential predatory, legitimate open access, and legitimate subscription-based biomedical journals.
In the latest ploy, a group of researchers in Poland tried to seat a fictional scholar onto the editorial boards of 360 academic publications.
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.
An investigation finds that dozens of academic titles offered 'Dr Fraud' — a sham, unqualified scientist — a place on their editorial board.
Court documents suggest Monsanto helped “ghost write” paper
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.
The constant demand for predatory journals has now exposed significant flaws in the academic research establishment that questions the integrity of the research system.
The Nature journals continue journey towards greater rigour.
Building a coherent collaboration environment that facilitates scholarly communication workflows of social scientists in the roles of authors, reviewers, editors and readers.
A resource-centric communication protocol for for decentralised article publishing, annotations and peer to peer interactions.
Democratization of journal publishing: the key to lowering journal costs and facilitating Open Access.
The efficacy and ethics of piracy, placing ‘guerrilla open access’ within a longer history of piracy and access to knowledge.
How much can a single editor distort the citation record? Investigation documents rogue editor's coercion of authors to cite his journal, papers.
Prior co-authorship relations have a large and significant influence on manuscript handling times, speeding up the editorial decision on average by 19 days.
I learned not to develop any hard feelings against the reviewers or the editors...
