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Fields Medal-winning Cambridge mathematician Sir Timothy Gowers and a team of colleagues have recently launched a new editor-owned Open Access (OA) journal for mathematics.
While we may be drawn to the fantasy of Robin Hood, it is easy to see the danger of putting one individual’s idea of right and wrong ahead of society’s democratically enforced laws.
Last week my friend Andy Kern (a population geneticist at Rutgers) went on a bit of a bender on Twitter prompted by his discovery of PLOS’s IRS Form 990 – the annual required financial filing of non-profit corporations in the United States.
We're delighted to announce a new project - ORCID DE - launched recently to foster and support ORCID adoption in Germany.
Benefits and costs to the authors of posting preprints as a function of the time of posting.
Many in the scientific community praise preprints as a means of overcoming the high costs and lengthy peer review process of elite journals, which some argue thwart progress.
Old-fashioned ways of reporting new discoveries are holding back medical research. Some scientists are pushing for change
There are three vectors of failure that can be addressed by better technology: time, cost, and the quality of the output itself.
A review of approaches and experiences on how to convert subscription-based scholarly journals to open access.
It could be possible to publish quickly online without alienating oneself from the traditional journal system.
The release of millions of journal papers online reflects impatience with an outdated publishing model, says John Willinsky
The MIT Media Lab has launched a new kind of academic journal that embodies its "antidisciplinary" ethos.
Female researchers now account for 37 per cent of first authors in medicine’s top journals, says US study
The total number of papers published by researchers during their early career period (first fifteen years) has increased in recent decades, but so has their average number of co-authors.
New startups like this one are trying to disrupt traditional academic publishing.
A peer-to-peer website aims to disrupt the author-services industry.
On how scientific publishers are struggling to maintain their stranglehold over scientists.
Only one-third of trials at US medical centres are reported within two years of completion.
How to do great research, get it published, and improve health outcomes.
Moves to speed up the release of Zika virus research in response to the public health crisis highlight a systemic failure in scientific publishing.
ASAPbio meeting discusses the ins and outs of posting work online before peer review.
The traditional way of publishing new findings in journals is becoming increasingly outdated and no longer serves the needs of much of science.
High-profile physicist says his students' papers were wrongly rejected by the preprint server's volunteer moderators.
Scientists are becoming increasingly frustrated by the time it takes to publish a paper.
After getting shut down late last year, a website that allows free access to paywalled academic papers has sprung back up in a shadowy corner of the Internet.
Analysis suggests higher selectivity fails to increase journals' impact factors
A white paper written by Leslie Vosshall and Michael Eisen aimed at promoting pre-print use in biomedicine.
Pathogens & Immunity promises a quick submission procedure, since it provides a reasonable flexibility about the length of the papers and authors are welcome to include reviews from other journals and their responses.
