Leading Climate Research Publisher Helps Fuel Oil and Gas Drilling
Elsevier's work with fossil fuel companies 'drags us towards disaster', climate researcher says.
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The Giant Plan to Track Diversity in Research Journals
Efforts to chart and reduce bias in scholarly publishing will ask authors, reviewers and editors to disclose their race or ethnicity.
The Other Diversity in Scholarly Publishing
After becoming a Scholarly Kitchen Chef back in July 2019, I have never stopped being amazed by the numerous dynamic issues and developments that scholarly publishing is dealing with. As a biologist by training, 'diversity' is the word that comes to mind.
Elsevier's ScienceDirect As Content Supercontinent?
Does today's news of Wiley etc. syndicating to ScienceDirect mean Elsevier is developing a supercontinent to compete with ResearchGate and Google Scholar?
Study Examines Diversity in Research Publishing
Science is often seen as a meritocracy, where the best work rises to the top along with the researchers who shepherd those advances. A new study tests that premise at the intersection of race and gender and finds cracks in that façade.
How Fake Science is Infiltrating Scientific Journals
Perverse incentives in academia and scientific publishing have led to a surge in research fraud.
Market Consolidation and the Demise of the Independently Publishing Research Society
Market Consolidation and the Demise of the Independently Publishing Research Society
The last few years have been a period of rapid market consolidation in scholarly publishing. Here, a look at the ongoing demise of the independent research society publisher, as more and more continue to sign on with larger publishing partners.
What Sci-Hub's Latest Court Battle Means for Research
Delhi court will scrutinize whether the pirate paper website falls foul of India's copyright law. The verdict could have implications for academic publishers further afield.
Research Funders Invest in 'publish, then Review' Model for Science Publishing
Research Funders Invest in 'publish, then Review' Model for Science Publishing
New investment from eLife's funder-partners reflects their commitment to transforming research communication.
What Can We Learn from One Million Open Access Articles?
Springer Nature has published 1,000,000 open access articles. Steven Inchcoombe discusses what they've learned during this process, and what it means for the future of open access.
A Billion-dollar Donation: Estimating the Cost of Researchers' Time Spent on Peer Review
A Billion-dollar Donation: Estimating the Cost of Researchers' Time Spent on Peer Review
By design, our results are very likely to be under-estimates as they reflect only a portion of the total number of journals worldwide. The numbers highlight the enormous amount of work and time that researchers provide to the publication system, and the importance of considering alternative ways of …
Towards Standardizing Plain Language Summaries: The Open Pharma Recommendations
Towards Standardizing Plain Language Summaries: The Open Pharma Recommendations
A look into the value of providing plain language summaries in research papers, and the standards created for doing so.
Building Bridges with the Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA)
Manuscript Exchange Common Approach (MECA) committee members champion the benefits of standardizing the transfer of papers between journals.
The Write Stuff
How to produce a first-class paper that will get published, stand out from the crowd and pull in plenty of readers.
Research That's Not in English Often Goes Unread - Leaving Massive Data Blind Spots
English is the lingua franca of science - but as a result, science published in languages other than English often goes unread.
Transforming the Transformative Agreement
Brigitte Shull from Cambridge University Press looks at the lessons learned so far from transformative agreements and how they continue to evolve.
Revisiting: How Traditional Publishing Works
Revisiting a 2018 primer on the business side of publishing. The defining property of traditional publishing is editorial selection. That is what publishing is about.
Wiley Acquires Editorial Services Group
Scholarly publishing powerhouse purchases editorial services group raising questions about industry comfort with using publisher owned services.
Publication Outperformance Among Global South Researchers: An Analysis of Individual-Level and Publication-Level Predictors of Positive Deviance
Publication Outperformance Among Global South Researchers: An Analysis of Individual-Level and Publication-Level Predictors of Positive Deviance
Research and development are central to economic growth, and a key challenge for countries of the global South is that their research performance lags behind that of the global North. Yet, among Southern researchers, a few significantly outperform their peers and can be styled research "positive deviants" (PDs). This paper asks: who are those PDs, what are their characteristics and how are they able to overcome some of the challenges facing researchers in the global South?
Citation Patterns Between Impact-Factor and Questionable Journals
Citation Patterns Between Impact-Factor and Questionable Journals
One of the most fundamental issues in academia today is understanding the differences between legitimate and questionable publishing. This study's findings show that neither the impact factor of citing journals nor the size of cited journals is a good predictor of the number of citations to the questionable journals.
Transforming Scholarly Publishing With Blockchain Technologies and AI: An Interview with Darrell Gunter
Transforming Scholarly Publishing With Blockchain Technologies and AI: An Interview with Darrell Gunter
Today features an interview with Darrell W. Gunter, editor of the new book Transforming Scholarly Publishing With Blockchain Technologies and AI.
Revisiting: Theory of the E-book
Joe Esposito revisits his 2012 post on the unstated theory of the e-book, which assumes that a book consists only of its text and can be manipulated without regard to the nature and circumstances of its creation.
81% of Horizon 2020 Papers Were Published in Open Access Journals
81% of Horizon 2020 Papers Were Published in Open Access Journals
More than 80% of scientific papers stemming from Horizon 2020 funded projects were published in open access journals, according to the European Commission in a new report.
The North is Drawing the South Closer, But, This is Not the Whole Picture of Geographical Inclusion
The North is Drawing the South Closer, But, This is Not the Whole Picture of Geographical Inclusion
Geographical inclusion in scholarly publishing needs to do more than just drawing the Global South closer to the Global North.
Unpacking The Altmetric Black Box
Article Attention Scores for papers don't seem to add up, leading one to question whether Altmetric data are valid, reliable, and reproducible.
Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing
This substantive work from John B. Thompson provides a historical overview and analysis of technological and legal challenges to publishing practices in the 21st century.
Why We Should All Care About Early Career Pay Equity and Inclusion
Why We Should All Care About Early Career Pay Equity and Inclusion
Learn how two early career publishers are tackling the thorny issue of pay equity and inclusion in today's interview with Rebecca Bostock (Ohio State UP) and Dominique J Moore (University of Illinois Press).
More Unintended Consequences: How the Plan S Transformative Journal Route Favors Larger Incumbent Publishers
More Unintended Consequences: How the Plan S Transformative Journal Route Favors Larger Incumbent Publishers
For smaller and independent publishers, the Transformative Journal route to Plan S compliance seems like a viable option. At least until you see the reporting requirements.
Digital Transformation Requires Cultural Evolution
Turns out, digital transformation is actually more human than technical. Learn more in these case studies from Emerald and De Gruyter.
Happy Birthday to the EBook!
On July 4, 1971 Michael Hart posted the first ebook file on the ARPANET and transformed content distribution.
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