Open access has always been promoted for its reputational benefits. The OA citation advantage is one way in which advocates try to convince researchers of the benefits of publicly sharing their work. But researchers are also motivated by the need to publish in prestigious and ‘high-impact’ venues, which often precludes the possibility of open access forms of publication.
Colleagues, funders and institutions can support pregnant researchers in a variety of ways.
Alex Freeman describes how her love for storytelling propelled her from producing TV programmes to reinventing science publishing.
Improving the culture surrounding mental health for postgraduates and PhD students also crucial to maintaining a healthy research system.
The Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellows Program, supported by the Sloan Foundation, aims to train graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and early career researchers how to become champions for open, reproducible research using Frictionless Data tools and approaches in their field.
Negotiator says universities 'no longer willing to pay' big publishers without significant step towards open access.
At Springer Nature we want to find the fastest and most effective route to immediate open access (OA) for all primary research. This blog describes a potential significant way to progress it.
Increases in APCs is proceeding at a rate three times that which would be expected if APCs were indexed according to inflation. As increasingly ambitious funder mandates are proposed, such as Plan S, it is important to evaluate whether authors show signs of price sensitivity in journal selection by avoiding journals that introduce or increase their APCs.
DORA is sometimes taken to be an initiative merely focused on criticising the undue influence of one specific metric, the journal impact factor (JIF). But to see DORA just in those terms overlooks the many positive prescriptions that the declaration lays out for how to reform research assessment.
The National Library of Medicine has quality control procedures in place, but some researchers believe additional scrutiny is necessary.
Some of the most successful free-to-publish Open Access endeavors have been emerging from arts and humanities in response to the particular needs of the humanities scholars concerning publishing formats, academic evaluation, and funding availability.
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report points to more than 2,500 wars and other conflicts over fossil fuels, water, food and land to show how important nature is.
Following charges against a female scientist, some faculty at Switzerland's elite universities say the country has a gender equity problem.
What legal, as well as ethical and social, factors will ultimately shape the contours of open science? Should all restrictions be fought, or should some be allowed to persist, and if so, in what form?
New research says early failure in the sciences may be beneficial in the long run.
Some university presses rely on subsidies because their mission is to expand knowledge - not to publish blockbusters.
New study of computer scientists says that when it comes to research output, where Ph.D.s get hired matters more than where they trained.
Our Taken for Granted columnist discusses a new report about the practice-and recommendations for reform.
Open science can lead to greater collaboration, increased confidence in findings and goodwill between researchers.
A tale of preprints, publications, and (kind of) open peer review.
The progress of Open Access (OA) is often measured by the proportion of journals that have transitioned to OA publication models. However, a number of journals have made the opposite choice and moved from open to closed access.
At PLOS ONE we like to speed up the publication process wherever we can. We like science to be out in the open, and publication of peer-reviewed research to take place without undue delays, so that others can use and build upon the findings. Aligned with our founding mission, we aim to be as fast as we can while remaining true to our publication criteria and without compromising the quality of the peer review process.
"Today I speak to you of war. A war that has pitted statistician against statistician for nearly 100 years. A mathematical conflict that has recently come to the attention of the ‘normal’ people."
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The country's major funding agency says the tool reduces the time it takes to find referees.
Recognizing the benefits, we move from merely supporting the use of preprint servers to promoting it.
Countries in southeast Asia, Africa and South America lead the way on free-to-read literature.
