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Broken Scientific Publishing Models and Fee Structures
The world's first and longest-running scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society began publishing in 1665, and it…
Aim and Scope - SURE Journal
The Series of Unsurprising Results in Economics (SURE) is an e-journal of high-quality research with "unsurprising" findings. We publish scientifically important and carefully-executed studies with statistically insignificant or otherwise unsurprising results. Studies from all fields of Economics will be considered. SURE is an open-access journal and there are no submission charges. SURE benefits readers by: Mitigating the … Continue reading Aim and Scope →
The Death of the Literature Review and the Rise of the Dynamic Knowledge Map
Almost every academic article starts with a literature review. However, although these short research summaries can be beneficial they also introduce opportunities for unverifiable misrepresentation and self-aggrandizement.
Ten Hot Topics Around Scholarly Publishing
This article provides a baseline evidence framework for ten of the most contested topics in scholarly publishing, in order to help frame and move forward discussions, practices, and policies.
Springer Nature Journals Unify Their Policy to Encourage Preprint Sharing
Recognizing the benefits, we move from merely supporting the use of preprint servers to promoting it.
University Presses Shouldn't Have to Make a Profit
Some university presses rely on subsidies because their mission is to expand knowledge - not to publish blockbusters.
Innovator Story: Wrestling the Octopus
Alex Freeman describes how her love for storytelling propelled her from producing TV programmes to reinventing science publishing.
How Journals and Publishers Can Help to Reform Research Assessment
How Journals and Publishers Can Help to Reform Research Assessment
It is well established that administrators and decision-makers use journal prestige and impact factors as a shortcut to assess research. But it is not enough to recognize the problem. Identifying specific approaches that publishers can take to address these concerns really is key.
Platform Capitalism and the Governance of Knowledge Infrastructure
The dominant academic publishers are busy positioning themselves to monetize not only on content, but increasingly on data analytics and predictive products on research assessment and funding trends. Their growing investment and control over the entire knowledge production workflow, from article submissions, to metrics to reputation management and global rankings means that researchers and their institutions are increasingly locked into the publishers' "value chain".
The Great Science Publishing Scandal
Matthew Cobb asks who owns research. Scientists, publishers or the public?
Report Gauges Potential Risks to Scholars and Universities if Publishers Capture Research and Student Data
Report Gauges Potential Risks to Scholars and Universities if Publishers Capture Research and Student Data
Analysis commissioned by advocacy group documents how major companies' business strategies could help them lock up research and learning data that colleges and scholars need.
Plagiarizing Names?
A new trend in scientific misconduct involves listing fake coauthors on one’s publication. I trace some of the incentives behind faking coauthors, using them to highlight important changes in global science publishing like the increasingly important source of credibility provided by institutional affiliations, which may begin to function like ‘brands’.
Elsevier Agrees to First Read-and-Publish Deal
A Norwegian consortium has signed a new kind of subscription deal with Elsevier that includes open-access publishing - a first for the publisher. But the new rights come at a cost.
It's 2019. Academic Papers Should Be Free.
Libraries and funding agencies are finally flexing their muscles against journal paywalls. Authors should follow suit.
Figure Errors, Sloppy Science, and Fraud: Keeping Eyes on Your Data
Figure Errors, Sloppy Science, and Fraud: Keeping Eyes on Your Data
Recent reports suggest that there has been an increase in the number of retractions and corrections of published articles due to post-publication detection of problematic data. Moreover, fraudulent data and sloppy science have long-term effects on the scientific literature and subsequent projects based on false and unreproducible claims. The JCI introduced several data screening checks for manuscripts prior to acceptance in an attempt to reduce the number of post-publication corrections and retractions, with the ultimate goal of increasing confidence in the published papers.
Researcher to Reader (R2R) Debate: Is Sci-Hub Good or Bad for Scholarly Communication?
Researcher to Reader (R2R) Debate: Is Sci-Hub Good or Bad for Scholarly Communication?
Transcript of a debate held at the 2019 Researcher to Reader Conference, on the resolution 'Sci-Hub Does More Good Than Harm to Scholarly Communication.'
Open Access Publishing: New Evidence on Faculty Attitudes and Behaviors
On Friday, Ithaka S+R released the latest cycle of our long-standing US Faculty Survey which has tracked the changing research, teaching, and publishing practices of higher education faculty members on a triennial basis since 2000. Here, some of the key findings around open access are higlighted. Especially among early career researchers, real-world incentives remain misaligned — and indeed appear to be moving further out of alignment — with the drive towards open access.
Read-and-publish? Publish-and-read? A Primer on Transformative Agreements
Is it every day or just every week that we see an announcement of a new “transformative agreement” between a publisher and a library or library consortium? Or, if not a press release announcing such an agreement, a statement that such is the goal of a newly opened — or perhaps faltering — set of negotiations? What makes an agreement transformative anyway?
Three-year Trial Shows Support for Recognizing Peer Reviewers
Thousands of Nature referees have chosen to be publicly acknowledged.
About University Journals
Fourteen universities from five European countries started a collaboration to set up University Journals as an alternative to the current journal system that requires authors to transfer their copyright or charges article processing charges.
So What About Editor Compensation?
As open access Plan S draws closer editors start to re-evaluate the business case of academic publishing, and their role in it. A major investigation reveals that editors at academic journals can make up to five figure salaries.
How Can Publishers and Librarians Work Together to Increase Engagement to Digital Collections?
How Can Publishers and Librarians Work Together to Increase Engagement to Digital Collections?
UKSG Breakout session: Increasing Engagement with Digital Collections.
Elsevier Chief: End Citation Fixation to Halt 'salami Publishing'
YS Chi claims publisher's shift to recognise research quality over quantity left a void that has been filled by others happy to publish insubstantial work
Elsevier Looking into How "unorthodox" Paper Featuring Ancient Astronauts Was Published
Elsevier Looking into How "unorthodox" Paper Featuring Ancient Astronauts Was Published
Elsevier is looking into how one of its journals published a paper which makes bizarre claims about the knowledge of the ancients.
Kudos and DataCite Partnership Substantially Advances Communications, Tracking and Impact Potential for Research Projects and Programs
Kudos and DataCite Partnership Substantially Advances Communications, Tracking and Impact Potential for Research Projects and Programs
Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, has today announced a partnership with DataCite.
Emerging Trends in the Academic Publishing Lifecycle
The academic publication lifecycle has undergone radical changes over the past several years. These changes have a significant impact on how scholarship will be written, published, promoted, and read in the future.
As Elsevier Falters, Wiley Succeeds in Open-Access Deal Making
The divergent strategies of scholarly publishers to forge licensing agreements with libraries are yielding different results.
Sign the Petition: Support the UC's "publish & Read" Proposal to Elsevier
Sign the Petition: Support the UC's "publish & Read" Proposal to Elsevier
An Open Letter to Elsevier and the Editorial Boards of Elsevier Journal
Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online
Education and Science Giant Elsevier Left Users' Passwords Exposed Online
Due a to a misconfigured server, a researcher found a constant stream of Elsevier users' passwords.
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