Speeding up scholarly communication for rapid sharing
Dalmeet Singh Chawla rounds up the recent discussion about single figure publications.
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Accelerating scientific publication in Biology
The time has come for the life scientists, funding agencies, and publishers to discuss how to communicate new findings in a way that best serves the interests of the public and scientific community.
Publication delays at PLOS and 3,475 other journals
An evaluation of PLOS publishing times.
Sci-Hub tears down academia's illegal copyright paywalls
In a lawsuit filed by Elsevier, Sci-Hub.org is facing millions of dollars in damages. However, the site has no intentions of backing down and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.
The web will either kill science journals or save them
Scientific research is awesome-we read it, we build upon it, we innovate with it, and we love it. But the process of getting research from the scientists who spend months or years with their data to the academics who want to read it can be messy.
Five companies control more than half of academic publishing
[3]A study at the University of Montreal shows that Reed-Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis, and Sage now publish more than 50% of all academic articles. This number has been rising, thanks to mergers and acquisitions, from 30% in 1996 and only 20% in 1973.
JournalGuide
JournalGuide brings all sources of journal data together in one place to give authors a simple way to choose the best journal for their research.
The future of scientific communication
Chief scientific adviser Sir Mark Walport posits a future in which papers are revised as research matures, supplanting 'outmoded' publishing practices.
Will traditional science journals disappear?
Has the traditional format of the science journal had its day? Dorothy Bishop outlines an alternative model, based on consensual communication.
Thumbs Down for the Freemium Model?
Researchers Reject Nature’s Fast Track Peer Review Experiment.
Work smart with Workspace, our new platform for writing papers
[8]F1000Workspace offers scientists a comprehensive suite of software and services to write and collaborate on papers, annotate and share references and articles, as well as easily discover and save relevant new articles.
Royal Society Open Science to tackle publication bias
[5]Royal Society Open Science aims to tackle the biases in traditional formats.
After 350 years of academic journals it's time to shake things up
Writing and reviewing journal articles is part of the core business of a scientist. But it’s not an efficient way to communicate research results.
ORCID Receives a $3 Million Grant to Build International Engagement Capacity
ORCID has been awarded an 18-month, $3 million grant by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to develop the infrastructure and capacity to support international adoption and technical integration of ORCID identifiers.
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Einstein shows: Not only citations count
Publications don't have to be successful immediately. This is shown by an article of Albert Einstein and colleagues that gained importance 85 years after having been published. By Anton Zeilinger.
PubMed retractions report
The latest report on retracted publications in the PubMed database.
The Extent and Consequences of P-Hacking in Science
When researchers collect or select data or statistical analyses until nonsignificant results become significant.
Visions of the future for academic publishing
Much of our contemporary approach to publishing research began with the launch of that journal, but what does the future hold?
Attention decay in science
The exponential growth in the number of scientific papers makes it increasingly difficult for researchers to keep track of all the publications relevant to their work. Consequently, the attention that can be devoted to individual papers, measured by their citation counts, is bound to decay rapidly.
In the beginning
This month marks the 350th anniversary of arguably the first and longest-running scientific journal, Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World.
Psychology journal bans P values
A controversial statistical test has finally met its end, at least in one journal.
Authoring scientific papers: a perspective from the trenches
It has taken a while, but the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences (SAAS) have come out with a valuable booklet on authorships of scientific manuscripts. This recommendations, published now also as a special article in the Swiss Medical Weekly, aspire to serve as a practical guide for principal investigators confronted with the task of assigning authorships to the individuals contributing to scientific manuscripts.
Journal publishes 200-word papers
Researchers are buzzing about a publication that accepts only 'brief ideas'.
Nature magazine publisher to merge with Springer Science
Germany's Holtzbrinck, which owns Nature publisher Macmillan Science and Education, will combine the majority of its activities with BC Partners' Springer unit.
What constitutes a citable scientific work?
Four conditions that need to be satisfied for a document to be considered a citable piece of scientific work.
Academic journals: the most profitable obsolete technology in history
A large research university will pay between $3-3.5 million a year in academic subscription fees...
Dragging scientific publishing into the 21st century
Scientific publishers must shake off three centuries of publishing on paper and embrace 21st century technology to make scientific communication more intelligible, reproducible, engaging and rapidly available.
The NIPS Experiment
Half of the papers appearing at the NIPS conference would be rejected if the review process were rerun.
The “Wild West” of academic publishing
The troubled present and promising future of scholarly communication.
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