Perking Up Peer Review: Hindawi Partners with Publons
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ELife Announces First Release of Open-source Submission and Peer-review Platform: Libero Reviewer
ELife Announces First Release of Open-source Submission and Peer-review Platform: Libero Reviewer
New software enables the rapid submission of manuscripts for initial assessment.
Ten Myths Around Open Scholarly Publishing
The changing world of scholarly communication and the emergence of 'Open Science' or 'Open Research' has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly-debated topics. Yet, evidence-based rational debate is regularly drowned out by misinformed or exaggerated rhetoric, which does not benefit the evolving system of scholarly communication.
The Real Cost of Knowledge
The University of California has broken with one of the world's largest academic publishers. Is this the end of a very profitable business model?
The Guardian View on Academic Publishing: Disastrous Capitalism | Editorial
The Guardian View on Academic Publishing: Disastrous Capitalism | Editorial
The giants of the scientific publishing industry have made huge profits for decades. Now they are under threat.
Big Pharma is Embracing Open-Access Publishing Like Never Before
Big Pharma is Embracing Open-Access Publishing Like Never Before
The proportion of open-access publications with authors from the pharmaceutical industry doubled between 2009 and 2016.
How Publishers Keep Fooling Academics
Time and time again, academic publishers have managed to create the impression that publishing incurs a lot of costs which justify the outrageous prices they charge, even though it is well established that the cost of making an article public with all the bells and whistles that come with an academic article is between US$/€200-500.
The Plan S Footprint: Implications for the scholarly publishing landscape
The Plan S Footprint: Implications for the scholarly publishing landscape
Implications for the scholarly publishing landscape
Springer Nature Syndicates Content to ResearchGate
A pilot project representing the first significant experiment with the syndication of publisher content to a content supercontinent.
UC Terminates Subscriptions with World's Largest Scientific Publisher in Push for Open Access to Publicly Funded Research
UC Terminates Subscriptions with World's Largest Scientific Publisher in Push for Open Access to Publicly Funded Research
As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier. Despite months of contract negotiations, Elsevier was unwilling to meet UC's key goal: securing universal open access to UC research while containing the rapidly escalating costs associated with for-profit journals.
Dear Publishing. I Love You, but Right Now I Don't Like You Very Much. An Open Letter.
Dear Publishing. I Love You, but Right Now I Don't Like You Very Much. An Open Letter.
Dear Publishing Industry,
Elsevier Records 2% Lifts in Revenue and Profits
Elsevier saw 2% underlying revenue growth in 2018, according to the latest annual financial results filed by parent company RELX, to a total of £2,538m.
Introducing eLife's First Computationally Reproducible Article
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 Chief Science Adviser: Cost of Academic Publishing is 'untenable'
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.
NISO and NFAIS Announce a Planned Merger.
NISO and NFAIS announced a planned merger yesterday, designed to better serve their members during a time of rapid change.
What Would Scholarly Publishing Look Like if We Rebuilt It from Scratch in 2019?
Invited talk by Jon Tennant delivered at the NFAIS 2019 Annual Conference.
EUA Releases Preview of 2nd Big Deals Survey Report
EUA has published a preview of the results of the latest edition of its Big Deals survey.
Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication
Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication
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.
Academy-owned? Academic-led? Community-led? What's at Stake in the Words We Use to Describe New Publishing Paradigms
Academy-owned? Academic-led? Community-led? What's at Stake in the Words We Use to Describe New Publishing Paradigms
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.
OASPA Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance
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.
Encouraging Data Sharing: A Small Investment for Large Potential Gain
Data Availability Statements are a powerful tool in promoting data sharing, but what does it take to include them in a journal workflow?
Guest Post: Supporting a Connected Galaxy of Knowledge - The Scholarly Kitchen
Guest Post: Supporting a Connected Galaxy of Knowledge - The Scholarly Kitchen
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.
Junk Science or the Real Thing? 'Inference' Publishes Both.
The newish 'quarterly review of science' sometimes muddies the waters between science and political ideology. It is funded by Peter Thiel.
When the Numbers Tell Different Stories
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.
What's in a Number? How (and Why) Measuring Research Productivity in Different Ways Changes the Gender Gap
What's in a Number? How (and Why) Measuring Research Productivity in Different Ways Changes the Gender Gap
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.
What BioRxiv's First 30,000 Preprints Reveal About Biologists
More than 1 million studies are now downloaded from the site every month, mostly in neuroscience, bioinformatics and genomics.
Pay to Publish Open Access: On the DEAL-Wiley Agreement
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.
Payouts Push Professors Towards Predatory Journals
If South Africa truly wants to encourage good research, it must stop paying academics by the paper.
Elsevier's High Profit Model Makes them Anti-Open
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."
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