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GitHub is not a solution to the problem of making scripts and software available as part of the permanent record of a publication. But the folk at Zenodo and Mozilla Science Lab (in collaboration with Figshare) have solutions for you now.
The traditional mode of publishing scientific research faces much criticism – primarily for being too slow and sometimes shoddily done. Maybe fewer publications of higher quality is the way forward.
eLife has appointed Paul Shannon as its new Head of Technology to oversee the development of tools and software in support of science communication.
The Winnower will power a range of publishing services for researchers who are writing on Authorea.
The knowledge that we produce in our publicly funded works belongs to humankind and must not be locked up behind pay-walls— newly submitted papers should be open-access and older ones open-archive.
How should the scientific publication process be rethought to be more meritocratic?
Funders and publishers have something in common: for better or worse, we have the ability to influence the behavior of researchers.
Cull of papers follows similar discoveries in 2015.
Peer review publications remain a key stage in the quality assurance of new research, but some comments can be the stuff of nightmares.
For some time now PLOS has discussed new initiatives designed to accelerate research communication.
A paper that suggests that the imposition of arbitrary manuscript length limits discourages the publication of more impactful studies.
Rejection rates in Frontiers journals are around ~27%, most manuscripts are published within 3 months, and yet, Frontiers’ citations rates are amongst the very highest.
New service offers a rigorous independent peer review and helps you publish quickly in the best possible journal. Submission is free.
Nature’s new kid on the block Scientific Reports is now the biggest journal in the world. But while such giants are currently overturning the world of scholarly publishing, their long-term future is unclear.
We should write our draft, go over it with our co-authors, and then put it on a preprint server. And wait. After a year, when we had the opportunity to share this paper with colleagues, then we can submit it.
To support the long-term growth of eLife we are going to introduce a publication fee of $2500
Women publish and review less than men in American Geophysical Union journals, but have a higher acceptance rate.
The open-access journal eLife is dropping one of its most distinctive features: free publishing. From 2017, it will charge a fee of $2,500 for all accepted papers.
That Sci-Hub’s activities are illegal is not disputed. However, according to Iván Farías Pelcastre and Flor González Correa the issue at the core of the debate is the current publishing and knowled…
With a focus on deep reporting, a print magazine, and an intense affinity for illustrations, nonprofit Nautilus has taken an expensive approach to launching a new science publication.
Poor research design and data analysis encourage false-positive findings. Such poor methods persist despite perennial calls for improvement, suggesting that they result from something more than just misunderstanding.
Scientists incentivised to publish surprising results frequently in major journals, despite risk that such findings are likely to be wrong, suggests research.
Peer reviews created by self-generated text machines are the latest threat to scientific integrity.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing predatory journal publishing company, OMICS Group, for hiding fees and deceiving researchers. It's a first for the largely unregulated industry.
As a researcher who gets such severe criticism, you have to go through the 5 stages of grief...
Dr. Joerg Heber has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of PLOS ONE.
It is useful to consider the trajectory of both scientific and literary publishing on the grid-group plane defined by Mary Douglas which arranges attitudes along two axes: one ranging from the hierarchical to the egalitarian, and the other spanning individualistic to communitarian. I would contend that, in both cases, there has been a move from the hierarchical/communitarian quadrant towards the egalitarian/individualistic zone.
‘SmartFigures Lab’ is a prototype online publishing website with enhanced data presentation capabilities. The site results from the integration of SmartFigures, an open source application of the EMBO SourceData platform, with Wiley’s Content Enrichment Framework and research & development environment.
In this Perspective, Thomas C. Südhof describes some of the current challenges to the peer review system that have endangered public acceptance of science and discusses possible avenues to addressing these challenges.
A few hours ago, 50 months after Elsevier submitted a patent application for an “Online peer review system and method” the patent was awarded to the company.
