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In an open letter some of the largest academic publishers and scientific societies are announcing that they will not just encourage, but ultimately require, researchers to sign up with ORCID.
The most prestigious journals publish the least reliable science (at least when looking at the available evidence from experimental fields).
Scientists perform a tiny subset of all possible experiments. What characterizes the experiments they choose? And what are the consequences of those choices for the pace of scientific discovery?
When it comes to protecting the scientific literature from bias, the safeguards that academics now use are sorely inadequate.
Peer-review platforms built around online pre-print repositories spread to astrophysics.
A group of seven publishers has announced that they will begin requiring authors to use an ORCID identifier (iD) during the publication process.
What actually is "academic freedom"?
Royal Society to make ORCIDs mandatory for its journals.
A new journal is encouraging scientists to publish single observations, no matter how small.
The web had been created to bring academics together; now it offered them a way of sharing their research online for free.
Though several large online repositories of free books and academic articles were pulled offline, they are not planning to cease their activities and are continuing their operations through alternative domains and on the dark web.
Single-observation, story-free, triple-blinded peer-review publication model aims to be the next-generation science journal.
RELX share price is up 100 percent during the past five years and is now near its all-time high.
A NY District Court has granted Elsevier's request for a preliminary injunction against several sites that host academic publications without permission.
Editors and editorial board quit top linguistics journal to protest subscription fees.
"The internet has changed everything and people are simply no longer willing to pay $30 to read a paper from 1987."
On [22]the incidence and role of negative citations in science.
Scientific publishing has undergone a revolution in recent years - largely due to the internet. And it shows no sign of letting up as a growing number of countries attempt to ensure that research papers are made freely available. Publishers are struggling to adapt their business models to the new challenges.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced plans for two new peer-reviewed journals, Science Robotics and Science Immunology..
In the US, taxpayers are said to be spending $139bn a year on research, and in the UK, £4.7bn. Too much of that money is disappearing into big pockets.
The world's first peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed scientific video journal.
Methods videos rising popularity has been spurred on by the so-called replication crisis, itself partly a result of the growing sophistication and interdisciplinary nature of life-science research.
The new journal RIO (Research Ideas and Outcomes) will publish papers on your methods, workflows, data, reports, and software - in short, all outputs of the research cycle.
The creators of PubPeer dropped their own anonymity today, as part of an announcement about a new chapter in the life of the post-publication peer review site..
At Chaos Communication Camp 2015, a researcher explained how to jump paywalls, obtain academic research and freely share that research without getting arrested.
Alert your followers on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other social networking sites by announcing your published work along with a link to your article. To encourage sharing - use hashtags relevant to your subject and tag co-authors or department colleagues who may also want to share your paper. Looking for more ideas?
Positive results are exciting, but the interest in positive results is skewing what we know about science.
Open access journal SoftwareX publishes cross-discipline, peer-reviewed software that has been developed during the research process.
The single figure publication is a novel, efficient format by which to communicate scholarly advances. It will serve as a forerunner of the nano-publication, a modular unit of information critical for machine-driven data aggregation and knowledge integration.
