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.
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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.
Wiley Becomes First Major Publisher to Require ORCID IDs for Submitting Authors
Wiley Becomes First Major Publisher to Require ORCID IDs for Submitting Authors
John Wiley & Sons Inc. announced today plans to require ORCID iDs as part of the manuscript submission process for a large number of journals. Beginning in winter 2016, more than 500 Wiley journals using ScholarOne Manuscripts will require the submitting author (only) to provide an ORCID identifier (iD) when submitting a manuscript. Wiley is proud to be the first major publisher to join other stakeholders that have signed ORCID’s open letter.
Disrupting the World of Science Publishing
Every scientist wants his or her paper to appear in Cell, Nature or Science. In today’s scientific world, being associated with such publications is synonymous with prestige and excellence, opening doors to top positions and coveted awards.
Open-Access Mega-Journals: A Bibliometric Profile
While the total output of the eleven open-access mega-journals grew by 14.9% between 2014 and 2015, this growth is largely attributable to the increased output of Scientific Reports and Medicine.
Wellcome Open Research: The Start of a New Journey
The first articles have gone live on Wellcome Open Research; 15 of them in total, with more submissions in the pipeline.
Scientific Language Is Becoming More Informal
Biologists in particular are writing their papers in a less formal style.
Publishing Innovations Aim to Highlight Hidden Research Efforts
Open publishing platforms that bring grey literature out of the dark promise to save money, reduce duplication and speed communication
You Can Make GitHub Repositories Archival by Using Zenodo or Figshare
GitHub is not a solution to the problem of making scripts and software available as part of the permanent record of a publication. But the folk at Zenodo and Mozilla Science Lab (in collaboration with Figshare) have solutions for you now.
Peer Review Is in Crisis, But Should Be Fixed, Not Abolished
The traditional mode of publishing scientific research faces much criticism – primarily for being too slow and sometimes shoddily done. Maybe fewer publications of higher quality is the way forward.
eLife Appoints New Head of Technology to Lead Open-Source Tool Development
eLife has appointed Paul Shannon as its new Head of Technology to oversee the development of tools and software in support of science communication.
Authorea Acquires The Winnower
The Winnower will power a range of publishing services for researchers who are writing on Authorea.
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