Sustainable Open-Access Model for Monographs
A project that aims to slash the cost of producing monographs could help make more of them available to the public for free. But will scholars participate?
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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.
Common Struggles: Policy-based Vs. Scholar-led Approaches to Open Access in the 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.
The "Impact" of the Journal Impact Factor in the Review, Tenure, and Promotion Process
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.
How Former Elsevier Editors Started a Community-led Publisher and Launched Their First OA Journal
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.
Platform Capitalism and the Governance of Knowledge Infrastructure
The dominant academic publishers are busy positioning themselves to monetize not only on content, but increasingly on data analytics and predictive products on research assessment and funding trends. Their growing investment and control over the entire knowledge production workflow, from article submissions, to metrics to reputation management and global rankings means that researchers and their institutions are increasingly locked into the publishers' "value chain".
Scite: Making Science More Reliable
scite is a platform that allows anyone to see if a scientific report has been supported or contradicted by subsequent work. Its aim is to make it easier to tell what is fact and what is not.
Male Researchers' 'Vague' Language More Likely to Win Grants
Grant reviewers favour 'broad' words used more often by men, but proposals using those terms don't produce better research.
How China is Redrawing the Map of World Science
The Belt and Road Initiative, China's mega-plan for global infrastructure, will transform the lives and work of tens of thousands of researchers.
Open Science Day - EPF Lausanne
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of EPFL, the important topic of open and reproducible science is given the place it deserves.
New-Look EU Research Department Aims to Overcome Bureaucratic Silos
EU Commissioners approved on 30 April details of an experimental new "matrix" design for their research policy department, which its chief says will force staff to work together across bureaucratic lines. "This is really about establishing an agile, modern, cross-cutting administration, which really can elaborate policies and projects differently," said Jean-Eric Paquet, director-general of DG Research and Innovation, known as DG RTD.
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.
Junior researchers often ghostwrite peer reviews
A new survey reveals the alarming extent of a practice that is universally considered unethical.
Report Gauges Potential Risks to Scholars and Universities if Publishers Capture Research and Student Data
Report Gauges Potential Risks to Scholars and Universities if Publishers Capture Research and Student Data
Analysis commissioned by advocacy group documents how major companies' business strategies could help them lock up research and learning data that colleges and scholars need.
Stanford Moves to Stop Providing Funds to Its University Press
Stanford Moves to Stop Providing Funds to Its University Press
Scholars question decision -- particularly as it comes from one of the world's wealthiest universities and will limit publishing by a highly respected press.
Productivity, Prominence, and the Effects of Academic Environment
Past studies have shown that faculty at prestigious universities tend to be more productive and prominent than faculty at less prestigious universities. This pattern is usually attributed to a competitive job market that selects inherently productive faculty into prestigious positions. Here, we test the extent to which, instead, faculty's work environments drive their productivity. Using comprehensive data on an entire field of research, we use a matched-pair experimental design to isolate the effects of training at, versus working in, prestigious environments.
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.
Turning the Tables: A University League-Table Based On Quality Not Quantity
Turning the Tables: A University League-Table Based On Quality Not Quantity
League tables predominantly reward measures of research output, such as publications and citations, and may therefore be promoting poor research practices by encouraging the “publish or perish” mentality. The authors examined whether a league table could be created based on good research practice.
An Open Toolkit for Tracking Open Science Partnership Implementation and Impact
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.
US Science Academy Leaders Approve Plan to Expel Sexual Harassers
The National Academy of Sciences has come under pressure to address misconduct in recent years.
The Great Science Publishing Scandal
Matthew Cobb asks who owns research. Scientists, publishers or the public?
Elsevier Strikes Its First National Deal with Large Open-access Element
Agreement with Norwegian consortium allows researchers to make the vast majority of their work free to read on publication in Elsevier journals.
Should We Trust Meta-Analyses with Meta-Conflicts of Interest?
There are a couple of angles to look at researcher conflict of interest from. One is that a conflict could distort their work, tilting findings and claims away from "the truth". The other is for the way the work is received, not how it is done: authors' perceived conflicts could damage credibility. How does this translate to authors of systematic reviews and meta-analyses? Are the issues the same, no matter the type of study? I've been thinking about that a lot lately. I was one of the external stakeholders consulted as part of the Cochrane Collaboration's review of its conflict of interest policy for their systematic reviews editorial teams. As they explain, they are looking to strengthen their approach to financial conflicts, and "consider a wider range of possible inherent biases". In biomedicine at least, systematic reviewers/meta-analysts are widely seen as arbiters on the state of knowledge. Their work often guides individual decisions, policy, and funding. I think that
Fearing No-Deal Brexit, European Funder Orders U.K. Researchers to Transfer Grants
'Nature's Emergency is Our Emergency Too'
Critical scientific assessment of humanity's impact on nature to be released after Paris negotiations.
The Government Is Planning To Make EU Students Pay Much Higher Fees To Study At English Universities
The Government Is Planning To Make EU Students Pay Much Higher Fees To Study At English Universities
Home fee status and financial support for EU nationals is planned to be withdrawn from 2021 in a new crackdown on foreign students by Theresa May.
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