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The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals
Two major study retractions in one month have left researchers wondering if the peer review process is broken.
Will the Pandemic Permanently Alter Scientific Publishing?
The push for rapid and open publishing could take off - although financial pressures lie ahead: part 4 in a series on science after the pandemic.
How You Should Read Coronavirus Studies, or Any Science Paper
Published scientific research, like any piece of writing, is a peculiar literary genre.
A Comic to Explain Academic Publishing
Easy-to-understand comic explains how rigorous science is peer-reviewed and published. Hint: it's not via YouTube.
Dutch Research Institutions and Elsevier Initiate World's First National Open Science Partnership
Dutch Research Institutions and Elsevier Initiate World's First National Open Science Partnership
VSNU, NFU, NWO and Elsevier have agreed publishing, reading and open science services to support Dutch research and innovation ambitions.
Scientists Are Drowning in COVID-19 Papers. Can New Tools Keep Them Afloat?
Scientists Are Drowning in COVID-19 Papers. Can New Tools Keep Them Afloat?
The hunt is on for better ways to collect and search pandemic studies
Coronavirus in Context: Scite.ai Tracks Positive and Negative Citations for COVID-19 Literature
Coronavirus in Context: Scite.ai Tracks Positive and Negative Citations for COVID-19 Literature
Artificial-intelligence tool aims to reveal whether research findings are supported or contradicted by subsequent studies.
The Limitations to Our Understanding of Peer Review
Peer review is embedded in the core of our knowledge generation systems. Despite its critical importance, it curiously remains poorly understood in a number of dimensions. In order to address this, this paper assesses where the major gaps in the theoretical and empirical understanding of peer review lie.
Science Has an Ugly, Complicated Dark Side. And the Coronavirus is Bringing It Out.
Science Has an Ugly, Complicated Dark Side. And the Coronavirus is Bringing It Out.
Experts say the pandemic is letting bad science slip through the cracks.
Scholarly Publishers Are Working Together to Maximize Efficiency During COVID-19 Pandemic
Scholarly Publishers Are Working Together to Maximize Efficiency During COVID-19 Pandemic
Scholarly publishers are working together to maximize the efficiency of peer review, ensuring that key work related to COVID-19 is reviewed and published as quickly and openly as possible. The group of publishers and scholarly communications organizations - initially comprising eLife, Hindawi, PeerJ, PLOS, Royal Society, F1000 Research, FAIRsharing, Outbreak Science, and PREreview - is... Read full article >
Women Academics Seem to Be Submitting Fewer Papers During Coronavirus
Editors of academic journals have started noticing a trend: Women - who inevitably shoulder a greater share of family responsibilities - seem to be submitting fewer papers, while men are submitting up to 50 percent more than they usually would.
The Purpose of Publications in a Pandemic and Beyond
For Elizabeth Gadd, the Covid-19 pandemic makes it clear that long standing issues with academic publications need to be addressed quickly and definitively.
No Room of One's Own
Early journal submission data suggest COVID-19 is tanking women's research productivity.
Coronavirus Is Forcing Medical Research to Speed Up
What does it mean for science - and public health - that scientific journals are now publishing research at warp speed?
Coronavirus Tests Science's Need for Speed Limits
Preprint servers and peer-reviewed journals are seeing surging audiences, with many new readers not well versed in the limitations of the latest research findings.
To Bundle or Not to Bundle? That Is the Question
While some libraries seek transformative agreements, others are unbundling the Big Deal: a look at licensing models and revenue pressures for publishers.
Springer Nautre Commits to 'Transformative Journal' Criteria from COAlition S
Springer Nautre Commits to 'Transformative Journal' Criteria from COAlition S
Revised ‘Transformative Journal’ criteria from cOAlition S are “challenging” but Springer Nature commits to transition majority of journals, including Nature. Approach means Plan S-funded authors will be able to continue to submit research to these journals.
COVID-19 and the Future of Open Access
A systematic focus on governance – instead of, or at least alongside, open access – is vital for the future of publishing. Even if the for-profit publishing model is not going to be ‘killed’ any time soon, governance may still allow us to assert some control over it. Coupled with the publishing futures already being created and nurtured by library publishers, university presses and scholar-led collectives, we may be able to imagine a world that isn’t trapped in the logic of COVID-19.
Hydroxychloroquine: How an Unproven Drug Became Trump's Coronavirus 'miracle Cure'
Hydroxychloroquine: How an Unproven Drug Became Trump's Coronavirus 'miracle Cure'
With help from Fox News and Elon Musk, a misleading French study prompted a wave of misinformation that made its way to the president
Synchronized Editing: the Future of Collaborative Writing
A growing suite of tools allows teams of researchers to work collectively to edit scientific documents.
Peer Review: Publishing in the Time of COVID-19
eLife is making changes to its policies on peer review in response to the impact of COVID-19 on the scientific community.
Covid-19 is Reshaping the World of Bioscience Publishing
Bioscience publishing, from preprint servers to established medical journals, is finding new and faster ways to publish Covid-19 research results.
ELife Latest: Taking Steps to Increase the Diversity of Our Editorial Board
ELife Latest: Taking Steps to Increase the Diversity of Our Editorial Board
As the Board of Reviewing Editors reaches 500, we reflect on recent recruitment efforts.
Publishers Roll out Alternative Routes to Open Access
But can they overcome free riders and concerns about higher prices?
The COVID-19 Outbreak Highlights Serious Deficiencies in Scholarly Communication
The COVID-19 Outbreak Highlights Serious Deficiencies in Scholarly Communication
The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak exposes an inconvenient truth about science: the current scholarly communication system does not serve the needs of science and society.
How China's New Policy May Change Researchers' Publishing Behavior
How China's New Policy May Change Researchers' Publishing Behavior
A researcher from the Wuhan University of China offers a view of how Chinese researchers are reacting and are likely to alter their behavior in response to new policies governing research evaluation.
China Bans Cash Rewards for Publishing Papers
New policy tackles perverse incentives that drive 'publish or perish' culture and might be encouraging questionable research practices.
How Academic Science Gave Its Soul to the Publishing Industry
Self-governance of science was supposed to mean freedom of inquiry, but it also ended up serving the business model of scientific publishers while undermining the goals of science policy.
Historical Comparison of Gender Inequality in Scientific Careers Across Countries and Disciplines
Historical Comparison of Gender Inequality in Scientific Careers Across Countries and Disciplines
A study suggests that the productivity and impact of gender differences are explained by different publishing career lengths and dropout rates. This inequality in academic publishing has important consequences for institutions and policy makers.
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