Scientific publishers are killing research papers
Pressure to publish short articles removes details, leaves readers confused.
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The Costs of Open and Closed Access
Using the Finnish Research Output as an Example
Predatory journals: Ban predators from the scientific record
Universities and colleges should stop using the quantity of published articles as a measure of academic performance. Researchers and respectable journals should not cite articles from predatory journals, and academic library databases should exclude metadata for such publications.
Vienna Principles: a vision for scholarly communication
A set of twelve principles that represent the cornerstones of the future scholarly communication system. They are designed to provide a coherent frame of reference for the debate on how to improve the current system. With this document, we are hoping to inspire a widespread discussion towards a shared vision for scholarly communication in the 21st century.
How does Jeremy Berg plan to address reproducibility in Science?
How does Jeremy Berg plan to address reproducibility in Science?
The former director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the U.S. National Institutes of Health has a new job. On July 1st, biochemist Jeremy Berg will take the helm as the editor-in-chief of Science.
Should All Academic Research Be Free And What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About Publishing
Should All Academic Research Be Free And What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About Publishing
It is remarkable that the sharing of academic research was the genesis of the modern web, yet today remains one of the last bastions of non-free content on the web.
Finland takes leading role in the openness of academic journal pricing
Finland is the first country where the subscription prices paid by practically all universities and research institutions to individual publishers are made available.
Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it?
Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it?
We paid for the research with taxes, and Internet sharing is easy. What's the hold-up?
Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016
Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Jeffrey Beall, January 5, 2016. Each year at this time I formally release my updated list of predatory publishers. Because the list is now very la…
PrePubMed
PrePubMed indexes preprints from arXiv q-bio, PeerJ Preprints, Figshare, bioRxiv, and F1000Research.
Open-access journal eLife gets £25 million boost
Biology's big funders announce investment will continue to 2022.
Why ‘context’ is important for research
Discovery is the pathway to context. Context of an article is all about how research fits into increasingly complex domains, and using structured networks to decipher its value. With the power of the internet at our disposal, putting research in context should be of key importance in a world where there is ever more research being published that is impossible to manually filter.
Digital forensics: from the crime lab to the library
Archivists are borrowing and adapting techniques used in criminal investigations to access data and files created in now-obsolete systems.
Should researchers publish their findings before peer review?
Scientists, journal editors, and funders of research are talking about a once-heretical idea: preprint publishing for biologists.
Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of Book Publishing
How might Web technology change the publishing industry? Ask the inventor of the World Wide Web.
The SciHub Data Part 2: Academic Pirates
How many people are actually using Sci-Hub to download publications while they are in universities?
Jeremy Berg named Science editor-in-chief
Biochemist and former director of NIH’s basic research institute has long been involved in science policy
Elsevier is tricking authors into surrendering their rights
To put it simply, Elsevier have distorted the widely recognized concept of open access...
Embrace preprints and set biomedical information free
Preprints uploaded to a public server without formal review can speed up the sharing of biomedical information without harming the scientific process.
Yes, I think academic publishers are greedy
Another day, another puff-piece from academic publishers about how awesome they are. This time, the Publisher’s Association somehow suckered the Guardian into giving them a credible-looking p…
Unravelling the true cost of publishing in open access
Universities must continue to monitor and track the variety of associated spending related to journal publishing and access, argues Lorraine Estelle. Many universities are forecasting that their AP…
Science: Disrupt
Podcast discussions with the innovators, iconoclasts, and entrepreneurs intent on creating change in science.
Preprints for the life sciences
Piece reflecting the opinions of researchers, funders, and journals.
Academic Publishing: Toward a New Model
To make research more accessible, separate the review and dissemination processes.
What Elsevier’s purchase of SSRN also means
SSRN’s data actually represents the world of social science scholarship reasonably well.
SSRN has been captured by the enemy of open knowledge
Elsevier just bought SSRN. Here’s why you should be upset, and what we can do about it.
Social-sciences preprint server snapped up by publishing giant Elsevier
The Social Science Research Network says that it will continue to offer free submissions and downloads under its new owner.
How many PLoS ONE papers said: All relevant data are within the paper
When PLoS announced its data policy that all data should be made publicly available, everyone applauded. It was a big step toward an open science and data sharing.
The pressure to publish pushes down quality
Scientists must publish less, or good research will be swamped by the ever-increasing volume of poor work.
A Reboot of the Legendary Physics Site ArXiv Could Shape Open Science
A Reboot of the Legendary Physics Site ArXiv Could Shape Open Science
The open source physics site arXiv is turning 25, and it's going to get a makeover. But what does that mean for its principles of data transparency?
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