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Springer is launching a new online initiative called Change the World, One Article at a Time: Must-Read Articles from 2015. The initiative focuses on articles published in 2015 in Springer journals which deal with some of the world's most urgent challenges. Those articles which are already open access are freely available online on a permanent basis and all other articles have been made freely available until July 15, 2016.
Alexandra Elbakyan is challenging the multibillion-dollar academic publishing industry.
Interview with Ijad Madisch, co-founder and CEO of the world’s largest online network for scientists
On the role that preprints can play in disseminating research findings in the life sciences.
Scale can be achieved by broadly outsourcing the editorial process. Does this lead to a loss in quality control, and is this acceptable?
Peer review and criticism is an essential part of academic discourse, and it is why journal articles are of such high quality and rigor. But you don’t get paid for it.
Key journal performance data for 2015 and other highlights from a business that is doing a lot more than publishing.
Researchers, publishers and representatives of funding agencies gathered at ASAPBio to discuss the use of preprint publications in biology. It became clear through the discussion on Twitter with #ASAPBio that many were unclear as to the purpose of the meeting, how preprints could help or hinder junior scientists, or even what preprints are.
Over the last week, there's been a storm over the executive compensation and financials at the Public Library of Science (PLOS).
Notices should make obvious whether a withdrawal of research is the result of misconduct or a genuine mistake, says Daniele Fanelli.
Fields Medal-winning Cambridge mathematician Sir Timothy Gowers and a team of colleagues have recently launched a new editor-owned Open Access (OA) journal for mathematics.
While we may be drawn to the fantasy of Robin Hood, it is easy to see the danger of putting one individual’s idea of right and wrong ahead of society’s democratically enforced laws.
Last week my friend Andy Kern (a population geneticist at Rutgers) went on a bit of a bender on Twitter prompted by his discovery of PLOS’s IRS Form 990 – the annual required financial filing of non-profit corporations in the United States.
We're delighted to announce a new project - ORCID DE - launched recently to foster and support ORCID adoption in Germany.
Benefits and costs to the authors of posting preprints as a function of the time of posting.
Many in the scientific community praise preprints as a means of overcoming the high costs and lengthy peer review process of elite journals, which some argue thwart progress.
Old-fashioned ways of reporting new discoveries are holding back medical research. Some scientists are pushing for change
There are three vectors of failure that can be addressed by better technology: time, cost, and the quality of the output itself.
A review of approaches and experiences on how to convert subscription-based scholarly journals to open access.
It could be possible to publish quickly online without alienating oneself from the traditional journal system.
The release of millions of journal papers online reflects impatience with an outdated publishing model, says John Willinsky
The MIT Media Lab has launched a new kind of academic journal that embodies its "antidisciplinary" ethos.
Female researchers now account for 37 per cent of first authors in medicine’s top journals, says US study
The total number of papers published by researchers during their early career period (first fifteen years) has increased in recent decades, but so has their average number of co-authors.
New startups like this one are trying to disrupt traditional academic publishing.
A peer-to-peer website aims to disrupt the author-services industry.
On how scientific publishers are struggling to maintain their stranglehold over scientists.
Only one-third of trials at US medical centres are reported within two years of completion.
How to do great research, get it published, and improve health outcomes.
