Changing Publishing Ecologies
A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing.
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A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing.
The field of ecology is poised to take advantage of emerging technologies that facilitate the gathering, analyzing, and sharing of data, methods, and results.
Openness requires trust in close peers, but not necessarily in research community or society at large.
An analysis of 15 million English scientific full-text articles published during the period 1823-2016.
Sci-Hub's contains 68.9% of all 81.6 million scholarly articles, which rises to 85.2% for those published in closed access journals and 77.0% of the 5.2 million articles published by inactive journals.
There is too little sound research on journal peer review.
Examining the functionality of a range of social Web platforms, and comparing these with the traits underlying a viable peer review system.
On awarding research funds on the basis of a modified lottery in which peer review is used to identify the most meritorious proposals, from which funded applications are selected by lottery.
ReScience is a peer-reviewed journal that targets computational research and encourages the explicit replication of already published research.
A Tutorial on the Git Version Control System.
New study of harassment of graduate students by faculty members suggests that the problem is worse -- both in level of offense and prevalence of repeat offenders -- than many believe.
Evaluation of humanities research in Norway.
I think I am the only living person in Sweden who achieved a professor chair with only one international journal publication.
A set of criteria for the identification of emerging topics is proposed according to the adjusted definition and attributes of emergence.
A guide intended to help research funders develop open policies that advance their organizational values.
Significance thresholds and the crisis of unreplicable research
How can medical research charities show the difference they make?
A simulation-based evaluation of statistical tests on publication bias.
The history and present diversity of peer review practices.
The British Academy and the Royal Society are carrying out a project examining new uses of data and their implications, and reviewing the data governance landscape.
A survey of current practice in Germany and Austria
How academic users understand, discover, and utilize reference resources.
The characterization of scholarly communication is dominated by citation-based measures. In this paper we propose several metrics to describe different facets of open access and open research.
A set of good computing practices that every researcher can adopt, regardless of their current level of computational skill.
Taking stock of the current state of interoperability across the PID landscape and to discuss the next steps towards an integrated research record.
This report provides an assessment of whether alternative finance has the potential to help Europe address the problem of access to finance for innovative companies and bridge the gap in terms of access to risk capital, and if EU action is needed to support development of the sector.