Journal publishes 200-word papers
Researchers are buzzing about a publication that accepts only 'brief ideas'.
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Nature magazine publisher to merge with Springer Science
Germany's Holtzbrinck, which owns Nature publisher Macmillan Science and Education, will combine the majority of its activities with BC Partners' Springer unit.
What constitutes a citable scientific work?
Four conditions that need to be satisfied for a document to be considered a citable piece of scientific work.
Academic journals: the most profitable obsolete technology in history
A large research university will pay between $3-3.5 million a year in academic subscription fees...
Dragging scientific publishing into the 21st century
Scientific publishers must shake off three centuries of publishing on paper and embrace 21st century technology to make scientific communication more intelligible, reproducible, engaging and rapidly available.
The NIPS Experiment
Half of the papers appearing at the NIPS conference would be rejected if the review process were rerun.
The “Wild West” of academic publishing
The troubled present and promising future of scholarly communication.
What counts as an academic publication?
While The Conversation is built around a journalistic model, there is a big growth in online, open-access journals each with different approaches to peer review.
Science journals have passed their expiration date
Technology has helped so many industries evolve over the past few decades, but scientific publishing, surprisingly, has hardly changed since the first journal article in 1665.
Spending on subscriptions to journals rises by up to 50%
Freedom of Information requests reveal substantial hikes in university outlay despite open access push.
Author Insights 2014
Raw data from Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan's annual Author Insights survey.
The cost of knowledge
Intransparenz bei den Bibliotheksausgaben von Schweizer Hochschulen
How can we trust scientific publishers with our work if they won't play fair?
I have never liked how scientific journals charge us to read the research that we produce. But that is another debate for another day. What I really hate is how they abuse this power to stifle debate in the name of their business interests.
How the digital revolution can fix scientific publishing
The culture of scientific publishing is complex. Some problems need technical solutions, but others require a cultural change within academia.
How Google Science could transform academic publishing
Google is allegedly working on a free, open access platform for the research, collaboration and publishing of peer-reviewed scientific journals. At least, that is apparently what one individual wants us to believe.
Something rotten
Something is rotten in the state of academic publishing. But even those of us in the thick of it find it hard to pinpoint exactly what is wrong.
Stop the deluge of science research
The increasing pace of human discovery is a curse – we need to rethink what it means to publish the results of research.
The 1% of scientific publishing
A new study finds that very few scientists (fewer than 1%) manage to publish a paper every year. But these scientists dominate the research journals, having their names on 41% of all papers.
Science joins push to screen statistics in papers
New policy follows efforts by other journals to bolster standards of data analysis.
Publisher, be damned! From price gouging to the open road
Why has academic knowledge become more expensive for consumers while music has become less expensive, and what can we do about it? Doing nothing to prevent the trading of electronic copies of our academic work could act to circumvent the perils of engagement with the academic publishing industry.
The inside track
Members of the US National Academy of Sciences have long enjoyed a privileged path to publication in PNAS. Meet the scientists who use it most heavily.
How much did your university pay for your journals?
A new study shows universities pay more or less for academic journal bundles than would be expected based simply on size or number of Ph.D.s granted.
The number of scholarly documents on the public web
The lower bound number of scholarly documents, published in English, available on the web is roughly 114 million.
How long does it take to publish a paper?
The answer is - in our experience, at least - about 9 months. That's right, it takes about the same amount of time to have a baby as it does to publish a scientific paper.
Credit where credit is due
Liz Allen, Amy Brand, Jo Scott, Micah Altman and Marjorie Hlava are trialling digital taxonomies to help researchers to identify their contributions to collaborative projects. Research today is rarely a one-person job.
Elsevier admits it has been mis-selling open access and will be contacting mis-sold customers
Elsevier admits it has been mis-selling open access and will be contacting mis-sold customers
Comment of Elsevier's Director of Access and Policy on a blog
Why publishing everything is more effective than selective publishing of statistically significant results
Why publishing everything is more effective than selective publishing of statistically significant results
Publishing everything is more effective than only reporting significant outcomes.
Boycotting academic publishers is a career risk for young scientists
Research careers are built on publishing in high-profile journals, so can postdocs be expected to take a stand against them?
Google Scholar wins raves—but can it be trusted?
Over the past year, Jonathan Eisen's reading habits have changed dramatically. For most of the past 2 decades, he has kept up with scientific literature primarily by combing PubMed. But these days Eisen, an evolutionary biologist, discovers research relevant to his own work without even looking for it.
Why we are not ready for radical changes in science publishing
There are indeed concerns about the current science publishing model, but until major changes in grant funding are incorporated, researchers will continue to lust after publications in high-tier journals.
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