Science’s Pirate Queen: Plundering the Academic Publishing Establishment
Alexandra Elbakyan runs Sci-Hub, a website with over 64 million academic papers available for free to anybody in the world. (Long read ...)
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Title Length
A paper documenting strong and robust negative correlations between the length of the title of an economics article and different measures of scientific quality.
PLOS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Enter Agreement to Enable Preprint Posting on bioRxiv
PLOS and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Enter Agreement to Enable Preprint Posting on bioRxiv
In order to better serve authors, an agreement between the two organizations outlines broader use of bioRxiv for preprints of papers submitted to PLOS journals.
FinELib and Elsevier Reach Agreement for Subscription Access
The FinELib consortium and Elsevier today signed an agreement making Elsevier’s globally published research articles available to Finnish academic institutions, while providing Finnish researches with incentives to publish open access if they so choose.
A Post-Publication Review and Assessment In Science Experiment
It is time to reinvent the ways we assess our research outputs and each other to make them more fair, efficient and effective, says Michael Eisen.
Nature Journals Tighten Rules on Non-Financial Conflicts
What makes a conflict of interest (COI) in science? Definitions differ, but broadly agree on one thing: an influence that can cloud a researcher’s objectivity. Nature and the other Nature Research journals are taking into account some of these non-financial sources of possible tension and conflict.
PubMed Commons to be Discontinued
PubMed Commons has been a valuable experiment in supporting discussion of published scientific literature. The service was first introduced as a pilot project in the fall of 2013.
The Importance of Being Second
Scientific research can be a cutthroat business, with undue pressure to publish quickly, first, and frequently. PLOS Biology is now formalizing a policy whereby manuscripts that confirm or extend a recently published study are eligible for consideration.
Women Edged out of Last-Named Authorships in Top Journals
Women are significantly under-represented as last authors on high-quality research papers, according to a recent analysis.
Preprint Abstracts On bioRxiv Increasing Faster Than Medline
As preprints in medicine are debated, data on how preprints are used, cited, and published are needed. This study by John P.A. Ioannidis evaluates views and downloads and Altmetric scores and citations of preprints and their publications.
The Case for the Megajournal
In the early days of digital, we were led to believe that the economics of scarcity would be repealed by the removal of supply constraints in the digital world. But that hasn’t happened.
The World’s Largest Producer of Scientific Articles
For the first time, China has overtaken the United States in terms of the total number of science publications, according to statistics compiled by the US National Science Foundation (NSF).
OUP Joins I4OC
Oxford University Press has today joined the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC).
Why Academic Journals Need to Go
In his fantastic Peters Memorial Lecture on occasion of receiving CNI’s Paul Evan Peters award, Herbert Van de Sompel of Los Alamos National Laboratory described my calls to drop subscription.
Elsevier is a Library's Best Friend
Elsevier is often thought to be the enemy of academic libraries, but in fact its practices improve libraries and lower costs.
Pre-print Open Access Site arXiv Surpasses Billion Download Mark
The pre-print database for scientists to test the peer-review waters was set up in 1991 as a relatively simple electronic bulletin board on a single computer. Twenty-six years later, the site arXiv.org has surpassed a full billion downloads of papers and receives more than 10 million submissions each month.
Redressing the Inverted Pyramid of Scientific Publishing
Ultimately, the power to enforce change resides in the hands of scientists.
How Diy Communities Are Pushing the Frontiers of Science
Lucy Patterson reports back from Science Hack Day Berlin.
Sustainable Computational Science: The ReScience Initiative
ReScience resides on GitHub where each new implementation of a computational study is made available together with comments, explanations, and software tests.
A Turbulent Year in the Publishing World
In 2017, scientists, regulators, and publishers clashed in a series of lawsuits, boycotts, mass resignations, and more.
Humans Run Experiments, a Robot Writes the Paper
The future of automated scientific writing is upon us—and that's a good thing.
Nature’s Editor to Step Down after 22 Years in Charge
Philip Campbell to continue at publisher Springer Nature.
Most Scientific Editors Still Come from US or UK
Lack of international representation on scientific journals' editorial boards has persisted since 1985.
The publishing process and Open Access
Slides explaining the publishing process and how Open Access fits in the traditional journal-subscription based model.
How Can you Spot a Predatory Journal?
How can one discern if the paper that they are reading is from a predatory journal or not?
The Science That's Never Been Cited
Nature investigates how many papers really end up without a single citation.
Busting Text Data Mining Myths & Misunderstandings
A broad TDM Exception is important for everyone (not just researchers), would boost Europe’s economy and doesn’t mean that publishers would lose money.
The Future of Academic Publishing and Advice for Youthful Researchers
An interview presents the perspectives of Jonathan Tennant, an early-career researcher.
Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as web pages
Arxiv Vanity renders academic papers from arXiv as responsive web pages so you don’t have to squint at a PDF.
Why Garbage Science Gets Published
Opinion pieces that “represent the viewpoint of an individual” and offer hypotheses without testing them are the opposite of science.
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