Recently, our colleagues at OpenAIRE have published a systematic review of ‘Open Peer Review’ (OPR). As part of this, they defined seven consistent traits of OPR, which we thought sounded like a remarkably good opportunity to help clarify how peer review works at ScienceOpen. At ScienceOpen, we have over 31 million article records all available for …

A list of people to follow on the preprints subject.

The business of scholarship.

While preprints have been around since before arXiv.org launched in 1991, fields outside of physics are starting to push for more early sharing of research data, results and conclusions.

The imprimatur bestowed by peer review has a history that is both shorter and more complex than many scientists realize.

In this interview, we have a discussion with the co-founder of PaperHive, Alexander Naydenov about the impact PaperHive has had on ESL authors.

An amusing case of plagiarism in a paper about plagiarism.

Relying just on numbers to assess gender equality is insufficient because companies and researchers are smart enough to game the system.

Charlie Rapple highlights the case of Diego Gómez, a Columbian researcher facing prison for sharing someone else's thesis via Scribd.

Continuous data validation, as a service.