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Article Processing Charge Hyperinflation and Price Insensitivity: An Open Access Sequel to the Serials Crisis

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Article Processing Charge Hyperinflation and Price Insensitivity: An Open Access Sequel to the Serials Crisis

Increases in APCs is proceeding at a rate three times that which would be expected if APCs were indexed according to inflation. As increasingly ambitious funder mandates are proposed, such as Plan S, it is important to evaluate whether authors show signs of price sensitivity in journal selection by avoiding journals that introduce or increase their APCs.

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Plan S

A Faster Path to an Open Future

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Plan S

A Faster Path to an Open Future

At Springer Nature we want to find the fastest and most effective route to immediate open access (OA) for all primary research. This blog describes a potential significant way to progress it.

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Reproducibility
Open Science

Open Call: Become a Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellow

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Reproducibility
Open Science

Open Call: Become a Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellow

The Frictionless Data Reproducible Research Fellows Program, supported by the Sloan Foundation, aims to train graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and early career researchers how to become champions for open, reproducible research using Frictionless Data tools and approaches in their field.

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Open Access
Careers

No Amount of Open Access Will Fix the Broken Job Market

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Careers

No Amount of Open Access Will Fix the Broken Job Market

Open access has always been promoted for its reputational benefits. The OA citation advantage is one way in which advocates try to convince researchers of the benefits of publicly sharing their work. But researchers are also motivated by the need to publish in prestigious and ‘high-impact’ venues, which often precludes the possibility of open access forms of publication.

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PhD Studies

GRE Fails to Identify Successful Ph.D. Students

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PhD Studies

GRE Fails to Identify Successful Ph.D. Students

A team of researchers led by RIT Professor Casey Miller discovered that traditional admissions metrics for physics Ph.D. programs such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) do not predict completion and hurt the growth of diversity in physics.

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Society

The NYC March For Science Had A Lineup Of All Women Speakers

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Society

The NYC March For Science Had A Lineup Of All Women Speakers

Marches were held at some 100 locations worldwide as part of a global day of action.  Speakers at the NYC march touched on issues ranging from climate change and a Green New Deal to sexual harassment, gender inequity, and activism within STEM.

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Opinion
Open Source

Why You Should Cite Open Source Tools

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Open Source

Why You Should Cite Open Source Tools

Open-source software is largely developed by active scientists, yet university hierarchies and national funding bodies generally do not recognise code as valuable output.

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Open Access
Journals

How Former Elsevier Editors Started a Community-led Publisher and Launched Their First OA Journal

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Journals

How Former Elsevier Editors Started a Community-led Publisher and Launched Their First OA Journal

After serving as editor-in-chief of an Elsevier journal for over seven years, Lajos Balogh decided to channel his publishing knowledge to a new endeavor. He and a group of fellow editors started a publishing organization and journal of their own.

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Open Access
Science Policy
Humanities

Common Struggles: Policy-based Vs. Scholar-led Approaches to Open Access in the Humanities

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Science Policy
Humanities

Common Struggles: Policy-based Vs. Scholar-led Approaches to Open Access in the Humanities

The thesis argues that the UK governmental policy framework promotes a form of OA that intends to minimise disruption to the publishing industry. The scholar-led ecosystem of presses, in contrast, reflects a diversity of values and struggles that represent a counter-hegemonic alternative to the dominant cultures of OA and publishing more generally.

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ORCID

Nominations Now Open for ORCID Board Elections 2020

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ORCID

Nominations Now Open for ORCID Board Elections 2020

The ORCID Nominations Committee is now welcoming nominations for Board members to serve from 2020 - 2022. Learn how, when and why to get involved.

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Metrics
Publishing
Evaluation

How Journals and Publishers Can Help to Reform Research Assessment

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Metrics
Publishing
Evaluation

How Journals and Publishers Can Help to Reform Research Assessment

It is well established that administrators and decision-makers use journal prestige and impact factors as a shortcut to assess research. But it is not enough to recognize the problem. Identifying specific approaches that publishers can take to address these concerns really is key.

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Open Science

Making Science Open with the New Europe PMC Plus

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Open Science

Making Science Open with the New Europe PMC Plus

We are delighted to announce the launch of the new Europe PMC Plus - the manuscript submission system for authors supported by Europe PMC funders.

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Open Science
Innovation

An Open Toolkit for Tracking Open Science Partnership Implementation and Impact

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Innovation

An Open Toolkit for Tracking Open Science Partnership Implementation and Impact

An open toolkit to guide and facilitate data collection about Open Science (OS) and non-OS collaborations with the aim of measuring the implementation and impact of OS partnership across these organizations.

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Conference

Researchers Meet Innovators

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Conference

Researchers Meet Innovators

In this 2-day meeting participants will learn how to contribute to innovation covering a large variety of roles in the value chain.

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Peer Review

Junior researchers often ghostwrite peer reviews

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Peer Review

Junior researchers often ghostwrite peer reviews

A new survey reveals the alarming extent of a practice that is universally considered unethical.

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Impact
Foresight

Ten Ways Times Higher Education Can Change the Story

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Impact
Foresight

Ten Ways Times Higher Education Can Change the Story

By Rob Cuthbert Tips from an editor on how Times Higher Education can shift the negative perceptions of people in higher education to reassert its value to the sector. Times Higher Educat…

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DORA
Impact
Metrics

The "Impact" of the Journal Impact Factor in the Review, Tenure, and Promotion Process

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Impact
Metrics

The "Impact" of the Journal Impact Factor in the Review, Tenure, and Promotion Process

The Journal Impact Factor has been widely critiqued as a measure of individual academic performance. However, it is unclear whether these criticisms and high profile declarations, such as DORA, have led to significant cultural change.

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Open Access

New Preprint: Scholar-Led Publishing and the Pre-History of the Open Access Movement

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New Preprint: Scholar-Led Publishing and the Pre-History of the Open Access Movement

There is an often-neglected pre-history of open access that can be found in the early DIY publishers of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, including involvement of the humanities and social sciences. Policymakers are advised to keep in mind this separate lineage in the history of open access as the movement goes mainstream.

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Open Data
Prizes

New Data Re-Use Prizes Help Unlock the Value of Research

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Prizes

New Data Re-Use Prizes Help Unlock the Value of Research

The winners of the Wellcome Data Re-use Prizes have generated new insights in antimicrobial resistance and malaria research.

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Open Access

Swiss Consortium Pledges 216,000 Eur to DOAJ and SHERPA/RoMEO

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Swiss Consortium Pledges 216,000 Eur to DOAJ and SHERPA/RoMEO

The Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries, comprising sixteen libraries and the Swiss National Science Foundation, is the third national consortium to commit to the SCOSS initiative.

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Gender
Evaluation

Is Blinded Review Enough? How Gendered Outcomes Arise Even Under Anonymous Evaluation

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Gender
Evaluation

Is Blinded Review Enough? How Gendered Outcomes Arise Even Under Anonymous Evaluation

Blinded review is an increasingly popular approach to reducing bias and increasing diversity in the selection of people and projects. We explore the impact of blinded review on gender inclusion in research grant proposals submitted to the Gates Foundation from 2008-2017. Despite blinded review, female applicants receive significantly lower scores.

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Conference

Towards Persistent Identification of Conferences

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Conference

Towards Persistent Identification of Conferences

Conference talks are a key element in scholarly communication. It is the primary mechanism for sharing research results and getting feedback. However, conferences in most disciplines never reached the same level of maturity as traditional journal publications in terms of quality management, which led to challenges like fraudulent conferences. There is need for a better control mechanism that can deliver credible information about conferences. 

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Women in Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) IF/THEN Ambassadors

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Women in Science

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) IF/THEN Ambassadors

The AAAS IF/THEN Ambassadors program furthers women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics by empowering current innovators and inspiring the next generation of pioneers.

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Gender
Citations

Rare Case of Gender Parity in Academia

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Gender
Citations

Rare Case of Gender Parity in Academia

The results of this study strongly suggest that when male and female authors publish articles that are comparably positioned to receive citations, their publications do in fact accrue citations at the same rate. This raises the question: Why would gender matter “everywhere but here”? 

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Open Science

Interview - Brian Nosek on Open Science

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Interview - Brian Nosek on Open Science

Jonathan and Chris interview Brian Nosek, a professor of psychology and the co-founder and director of the Center for Open Science. They discuss problems and solutions in modern scientific research, such as committing scientists.

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Open Science
Workshop

OAI11 - CERN-UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (19-21 June 2019)

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Open Science
Workshop

OAI11 - CERN-UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (19-21 June 2019)

The CERN-UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication will be held at University of Geneva in June 19th-21st 2019. The main theme of this edition is: Open Science - its impact and potential as a driver for radical change.

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