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Scientists are becoming increasingly frustrated by the time it takes to publish a paper.
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The Research Pirates of the Dark Web
After getting shut down late last year, a website that allows free access to paywalled academic papers has sprung back up in a shadowy corner of the Internet.
High rejection rates by journals 'pointless'
Analysis suggests higher selectivity fails to increase journals' impact factors
Coupling pre-prints and post-publication peer review for fast, cheap, fair, and effective science publishing
Coupling pre-prints and post-publication peer review for fast, cheap, fair, and effective science publishing
A white paper written by Leslie Vosshall and Michael Eisen aimed at promoting pre-print use in biomedicine.
The 5-minute journal submission
Pathogens & Immunity promises a quick submission procedure, since it provides a reasonable flexibility about the length of the papers and authors are welcome to include reviews from other journals and their responses.
Journals to solve 'John Smith' common name problem by requiring author IDs
In an open letter some of the largest academic publishers and scientific societies are announcing that they will not just encourage, but ultimately require, researchers to sign up with ORCID.
Do "top" journals attract "too good to be true" results?
The most prestigious journals publish the least reliable science (at least when looking at the available evidence from experimental fields).
Choosing experiments to accelerate collective discovery
Scientists perform a tiny subset of all possible experiments. What characterizes the experiments they choose? And what are the consequences of those choices for the pace of scientific discovery?
Should scientific papers be anonymous?
When it comes to protecting the scientific literature from bias, the safeguards that academics now use are sorely inadequate.
Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum
Peer-review platforms built around online pre-print repositories spread to astrophysics.
Publishers to require ORCID identifiers for authors
A group of seven publishers has announced that they will begin requiring authors to use an ORCID identifier (iD) during the publication process.
The current system of scholarly publishing is a massive infringement of academic freedom
The current system of scholarly publishing is a massive infringement of academic freedom
What actually is "academic freedom"?
From January you'll need an ORCID
Royal Society to make ORCIDs mandatory for its journals.
Got just a single observation?
A new journal is encouraging scientists to publish single observations, no matter how small.
Elsevier leads the business the internet could not kill
The web had been created to bring academics together; now it offered them a way of sharing their research online for free.
Sci-Hub, BookFi and LibGen resurface after being shut down
Though several large online repositories of free books and academic articles were pulled offline, they are not planning to cease their activities and are continuing their operations through alternative domains and on the dark web.
Matters
Single-observation, story-free, triple-blinded peer-review publication model aims to be the next-generation science journal.
Academic publishing can't remain such a great business
RELX share price is up 100 percent during the past five years and is now near its all-time high.
Court orders shutdown of Libgen, Bookfi and Sci-Hub
A NY District Court has granted Elsevier's request for a preliminary injunction against several sites that host academic publications without permission.
Editors and editorial board quit top linguistics journal to protest subscription fees
Editors and editorial board quit top linguistics journal to protest subscription fees
Editors and editorial board quit top linguistics journal to protest subscription fees.
Academics have found a way to access insanely expensive research papers-for free
"The internet has changed everything and people are simply no longer willing to pay $30 to read a paper from 1987."
Science papers rarely cited in negative ways
On [22]the incidence and role of negative citations in science.
Let's make sure it's fair as well as transparent
Scientific publishing has undergone a revolution in recent years - largely due to the internet. And it shows no sign of letting up as a growing number of countries attempt to ensure that research papers are made freely available. Publishers are struggling to adapt their business models to the new challenges.
AAAS expands the Science Family by Launching Two New Journals
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced plans for two new peer-reviewed journals, Science Robotics and Science Immunology..
Academics are being hoodwinked into writing books nobody can buy
In the US, taxpayers are said to be spending $139bn a year on research, and in the UK, £4.7bn. Too much of that money is disappearing into big pockets.
JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments
The world's first peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed scientific video journal.
How methods videos are making science smarter
Methods videos rising popularity has been spurred on by the so-called replication crisis, itself partly a result of the growing sophistication and interdisciplinary nature of life-science research.
A new journal wants to publish your research ideas
The new journal RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) will publish papers on your methods, workflows, data, reports, and software - in short, all outputs of the research cycle.
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