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Blending the traditional manuscript with live code, data and interactive figures, eLife showcases a new way for researchers to tell their full story.

India's annual multi-million-euro outlay on scientific publishing is a bad deal for the country, says Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, principal scientific adviser to the government.

Invited talk by Jon Tennant delivered at the NFAIS 2019 Annual Conference.

NISO and NFAIS announced a planned merger yesterday, designed to better serve their members during a time of rapid change.

EUA has published a preview of the results of the latest edition of its Big Deals survey.

As a community of 140 organisations who are committed to the advancement of open access publishing and who represent the majority of the of the OA journal output in the DOAJ*, OASPA is of course very supportive of the intentions of Plan S, as we commented previously at the beginning of October.

There is no question that we are facing significant challenges and opportunities as the traditional publishing model begins to falter. How the academy positions itself at this moment will have consequences for years to come.

The Report of the Expert Group to the European Commission proposes a vision for the future of scholarly communication. It examines the current system and its main actors and puts forward recommendations.

Data Availability Statements are a powerful tool in promoting data sharing, but what does it take to include them in a journal workflow?

The newish 'quarterly review of science' sometimes muddies the waters between science and political ideology. It is funded by Peter Thiel.

Elsevier's Gaby Appleton expands on some of the themes she discussed during the recent STM Association's panel debate on 'The future of access" and the work Elsevier is doing in these areas.

The gender gap in research productivity varies widely from study to study. This paper looks at how (and why) measuring productivity in different ways provides different pictures of the gender gap.

Men produce twice as many scientific publications as women. At least that's the long-held assumption. But Lynn Nygaard, a special adviser and doctoral research fellow at PRIO, challenges this widespread belief in her recent article.

More than 1 million studies are now downloaded from the site every month, mostly in neuroscience, bioinformatics and genomics.

Details of the contract between the German consortium DEAL and Wiley reveal that the transformative nature of this new big deal may come at a high cost. 

New contract gives researchers access to Wiley's journals and makes their papers open access

Elsevier argues that they make their citation data available through their subscription database, Scopus, and that “[…] Elsevier cannot make such a large corpus of data, which it has added significant value to, available for free."

If South Africa truly wants to encourage good research, it must stop paying academics by the paper.

Printer closures and paper shortages create scheduling headaches for academic authors and staff at university presses.

End of prestigious print publication after 103 years stirs debate over future of journal publishing in the digital age.

BMC Biology's 'portable peer review' policy aims to save editors and researchers time and effort, but academics question whether authors will want to share details of past rejections.

While 18,000 retractions may sound like a lot, that amount is clearly just a fraction of the total number of papers that are a problem, as surveys indicate.

Visionaries thought technology would change books. Instead, it's changed everything about publishing a book.

Funders and publishers have a lot to gain from sharing and aligning peer reviews.

Any scientist publishing a claim should quantify their confidence in it with a probability, argues Steven N. Goodman.

More than 1,400 researchers sign an online letter arguing that Plan S will not impinge on academic freedom, as some critics claim.

Plan S implementation guidance has not provided reassurance to anxious society publishers.

Getting the most out of your Google Scholar profile, creating some old-fashioned table of contents alerts, and simply setting aside time to periodically review key journal titles will ensure you rarely miss out on important research.

Scientific journals' creation of dedicated positions for rooting out misconduct before publication comes amid growing awareness of such issues.