Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum
Peer-review platforms built around online pre-print repositories spread to astrophysics.
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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.
PubPeer founders reveal themselves, create foundation
The creators of PubPeer dropped their own anonymity today, as part of an announcement about a new chapter in the life of the post-publication peer review site..
Jump paywalls, score academic research for free, share it without being busted
Jump paywalls, score academic research for free, share it without being busted
At Chaos Communication Camp 2015, a researcher explained how to jump paywalls, obtain academic research and freely share that research without getting arrested.
Tips for promoting your research paper
Alert your followers on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other social networking sites by announcing your published work along with a link to your article. To encourage sharing - use hashtags relevant to your subject and tag co-authors or department colleagues who may also want to share your paper. Looking for more ideas?
Why an increase in boring study results is an important advance for medicine
Positive results are exciting, but the interest in positive results is skewing what we know about science.
New SoftwareX journal integrates software into scientific communication
Open access journal SoftwareX publishes cross-discipline, peer-reviewed software that has been developed during the research process.
Single Figure Publications: A novel format for scholarly communication
The single figure publication is a novel, efficient format by which to communicate scholarly advances. It will serve as a forerunner of the nano-publication, a modular unit of information critical for machine-driven data aggregation and knowledge integration.
Speeding up scholarly communication for rapid sharing
Dalmeet Singh Chawla rounds up the recent discussion about single figure publications.
Accelerating scientific publication in Biology
The time has come for the life scientists, funding agencies, and publishers to discuss how to communicate new findings in a way that best serves the interests of the public and scientific community.
Publication delays at PLOS and 3,475 other journals
An evaluation of PLOS publishing times.
Sci-Hub tears down academia's illegal copyright paywalls
In a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, Sci-Hub.org is facing millions of dollars in damages. However, the site has no intentions of backing down and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.
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