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Sci-Hub has gained fame and notoriety for enabling free access to over 45 million paywalled articles and book chapters, purportedly collected through use of institutional log-in credentials.
A homeopathy journal was recently booted from the list of respectable scientific titles — but why was it among the ranks in the first place?
Pressure to publish short articles removes details, leaves readers confused.
Using the Finnish Research Output as an Example
Universities and colleges should stop using the quantity of published articles as a measure of academic performance. Researchers and respectable journals should not cite articles from predatory journals, and academic library databases should exclude metadata for such publications.
A set of twelve principles that represent the cornerstones of the future scholarly communication system. They are designed to provide a coherent frame of reference for the debate on how to improve the current system. With this document, we are hoping to inspire a widespread discussion towards a shared vision for scholarly communication in the 21st century.
The former director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences at the U.S. National Institutes of Health has a new job. On July 1st, biochemist Jeremy Berg will take the helm as the editor-in-chief of Science.
It is remarkable that the sharing of academic research was the genesis of the modern web, yet today remains one of the last bastions of non-free content on the web.
Finland is the first country where the subscription prices paid by practically all universities and research institutions to individual publishers are made available.
We paid for the research with taxes, and Internet sharing is easy. What's the hold-up?
Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Jeffrey Beall, January 5, 2016. Each year at this time I formally release my updated list of predatory publishers. Because the list is now very la…
PrePubMed indexes preprints from arXiv q-bio, PeerJ Preprints, Figshare, bioRxiv, and F1000Research.
Biology's big funders announce investment will continue to 2022.
Discovery is the pathway to context. Context of an article is all about how research fits into increasingly complex domains, and using structured networks to decipher its value. With the power of the internet at our disposal, putting research in context should be of key importance in a world where there is ever more research being published that is impossible to manually filter.
Archivists are borrowing and adapting techniques used in criminal investigations to access data and files created in now-obsolete systems.
Scientists, journal editors, and funders of research are talking about a once-heretical idea: preprint publishing for biologists.
How might Web technology change the publishing industry? Ask the inventor of the World Wide Web.
How many people are actually using Sci-Hub to download publications while they are in universities?
Biochemist and former director of NIH’s basic research institute has long been involved in science policy
To put it simply, Elsevier have distorted the widely recognized concept of open access...
Preprints uploaded to a public server without formal review can speed up the sharing of biomedical information without harming the scientific process.
Another day, another puff-piece from academic publishers about how awesome they are. This time, the Publisher’s Association somehow suckered the Guardian into giving them a credible-looking p…
Universities must continue to monitor and track the variety of associated spending related to journal publishing and access, argues Lorraine Estelle. Many universities are forecasting that their AP…
Podcast discussions with the innovators, iconoclasts, and entrepreneurs intent on creating change in science.
Piece reflecting the opinions of researchers, funders, and journals.
To make research more accessible, separate the review and dissemination processes.
SSRN’s data actually represents the world of social science scholarship reasonably well.
Elsevier just bought SSRN. Here’s why you should be upset, and what we can do about it.
The Social Science Research Network says that it will continue to offer free submissions and downloads under its new owner.
When PLoS announced its data policy that all data should be made publicly available, everyone applauded. It was a big step toward an open science and data sharing.
