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Kudos and DataCite Partnership Substantially Advances Communications, Tracking and Impact Potential for Research Projects and Programs

Kudos and DataCite Partnership Substantially Advances Communications, Tracking and Impact Potential for Research Projects and Programs

Kudos, the award-winning service for accelerating research impact through strategic communications management, has today announced a partnership with DataCite.

ELife Announces First Release of Open-source Submission and Peer-review Platform: Libero Reviewer

ELife Announces First Release of Open-source Submission and Peer-review Platform: Libero Reviewer

New software enables the rapid submission of manuscripts for initial assessment.

Ten Myths Around Open Scholarly Publishing

Ten Myths Around Open Scholarly Publishing

The changing world of scholarly communication and the emergence of 'Open Science' or 'Open Research' has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly-debated topics. Yet, evidence-based rational debate is regularly drowned out by misinformed or exaggerated rhetoric, which does not benefit the evolving system of scholarly communication.

How Publishers Keep Fooling Academics

How Publishers Keep Fooling Academics

Time and time again, academic publishers have managed to create the impression that publishing incurs a lot of costs which justify the outrageous prices they charge, even though it is well established that the cost of making an article public with all the bells and whistles that come with an academic article is between US$/€200-500.

UC Terminates Subscriptions with World's Largest Scientific Publisher in Push for Open Access to Publicly Funded Research

UC Terminates Subscriptions with World's Largest Scientific Publisher in Push for Open Access to Publicly Funded Research

As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding not to renew its subscriptions with Elsevier. Despite months of contract negotiations, Elsevier was unwilling to meet UC's key goal: securing universal open access to UC research while containing the rapidly escalating costs associated with for-profit journals.

Elsevier Records 2% Lifts in Revenue and Profits

Elsevier Records 2% Lifts in Revenue and Profits

Elsevier saw 2% underlying revenue growth in 2018, according to the latest annual financial results filed by parent company RELX, to a total of £2,538m.

India's Chief Science Adviser: Cost of Academic Publishing is 'untenable'

India's Chief Science Adviser: Cost of Academic Publishing is 'untenable'

India's annual multi-million-euro outlay on scientific publishing is a bad deal for the country, says Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, principal scientific adviser to the government.

What Would Scholarly Publishing Look Like if We Rebuilt It from Scratch in 2019?

What Would Scholarly Publishing Look Like if We Rebuilt It from Scratch in 2019?

Invited talk by Jon Tennant delivered at the NFAIS 2019 Annual Conference.

Academy-owned? Academic-led? Community-led? What's at Stake in the Words We Use to Describe New Publishing Paradigms

Academy-owned? Academic-led? Community-led? What's at Stake in the Words We Use to Describe New Publishing Paradigms

There is no question that we are facing significant challenges and opportunities as the traditional publishing model begins to falter. How the academy positions itself at this moment will have consequences for years to come.

OASPA Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance

OASPA Feedback on Plan S Implementation Guidance

As a community of 140 organisations who are committed to the advancement of open access publishing and who represent the majority of the of the OA journal output in the DOAJ*, OASPA is of course very supportive of the intentions of Plan S, as we commented previously at the beginning of October.

When the Numbers Tell Different Stories

When the Numbers Tell Different Stories

Men produce twice as many scientific publications as women. At least that's the long-held assumption. But Lynn Nygaard, a special adviser and doctoral research fellow at PRIO, challenges this widespread belief in her recent article.