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There is an urgent need by research communities and public agencies to collaboratively reclaim the infrastructure around the academic knowledge production process.
Once again, the term "open" requires further thought to probe the pros and cons. With open source, we may be once again doing things that make the big bigger and the small less relevant.
Experiment traces how online encyclopaedia influences research write-ups.
As journals move away from print formats and embrace web-based content, design-centered thinking will allow for engagement of a larger audience.
The perceived and actual barriers experienced by researchers attempting to do reproducible research.
Earlier this week, eLife announced a partnership with Coko to build an open source solution for submission, peer review and processing of manuscripts. The limitations of the currently available systems are substantial.
The waiting is, indeed, the hardest part, but some academics cope with it better than others.
Letter requests that ResearchGate consider removing content in violation of copyright.
Some worry that posting unvetted medical manuscripts could cause problems.
With science needing to always be reviewed to be sure it is correct, using Post-publication peer review is useful for scientific accuracy.
Like many others in the scholarly community, we were very disappointed to learn about the recent acquisition by Elsevier of bepress, the provider of the popular Digital Commons repository platform.
If you have a pressing need to read an academic paper that’s hiding behind a paywall, your quickest course of action may well be to use Sci-Hub.
With Substance and Stencila, eLife is developing the technology required to publish computationally reproducible research articles online.
The Reproducible Document Stack will allow authors to submit their manuscripts in a format that includes embedded code blocks and computed outputs, and for publishers to preserve these assets in an enhanced version of the published online article.
PubMed is found to contain predatory journals and publishers, likely reflecting a long-term and broader problem, which only adds to the confusion about what exactly PubMed represents at this point.
Predatory journals have shoddy reporting and include papers from wealthy nations
Sci-Hub, which is regularly referred to as the "Pirate Bay of science," faces another setback in a US federal court.
Elsevier signs up to TOP guidelines & develops new data-sharing guidelines for journals.
An overview of the type of research that has been published since launch of Wellcome Open Research.
New metric measures how reliable scientific claims turn out to be – but calculating it could be an enormous task.
Ultimately, a key question is emerging for higher education institutions: to what extent, and under what conditions, does it make sense to outsource core scholarly infrastructure?
It might just reinvent the entire medical publishing process.
Over the last 2 years more than 150 German libraries, universities, and research institutes have formed a united front trying to force academic publishers into a new way of doing business.
For the record, I do peer reviews! For free!
The recent attempt by China to censor scholarship points to a growing set of challenges in information dissemination. Blaming the publisher obscures these issues.
Consortium hopes to make all German-authored papers free to read by paying annual fee.
An open-source browser extension for linking, curating and sharing scientific insights across publishers.
The Cambridge University Press faced academic outrage after agreeing to remove articles about Tibet, Tiananmen Square and China's Cultural Revolution.
Academics pressure publisher as Beijing mouthpiece says western institutions can leave if they don’t like ‘the Chinese way’
Academics and activists decry publisher’s decision to comply with a Chinese request to block more than 300 articles from leading China studies journal.
