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Chemistry World
October 31, 2012
Ian Le Guillou |
How do you solve a problem like misconduct? Against a backdrop of a rapid increase in misconduct cases, representatives of the world's scientific societies and academies have banded together to produce a plan to shore up research integrity.   |
Chemistry World
May 30, 2014
Hepeng Jia |
China plans 'green' open access future Thousands of Chinese papers published in top journals will have to freely accessible within a year of publication. |
Chemistry World
April 22, 2009
Killugudi Jayaraman |
Call for Indian plagiarism watchdog It is just over a year since Pattium Chiranjeevi, from Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati, was accused of one of the biggest cases of scientific fraud in chemistry |
Chemistry World
March 4, 2013
Leila Sattary |
UK funders get tough on research misconduct Universities who do not take cases of research misconduct seriously could have their funding withdrawn. The new sanctions are set out in the revised Policy and Guidelines on Governance of Good Research Conduct, published by Research Councils UK |
Chemistry World
July 18, 2013
Patrick Walter |
Call to arms on data integrity Data integrity in the chemical sciences is under the spotlight. In a broadside aimed at shoddy data practices, the editor of Organic Letters, Amos Smith, has called on chemists to put their house in order and root out poor practice. |
Chemistry World
February 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Fraudulent scientific results can terrorise a company's patent claims. Chemical patents have (especially among academic researchers) a reputation for unreliability and deliberate obscurity. |
Chemistry World
February 19, 2015
Francois-Xavier Coudert |
Setting the record straight It is every scientist's duty to add knowledge to this record, but also to safeguard its integrity by checking that others' work is reproducible. |
Chemistry World
August 22, 2006
Katharine Sanderson |
Open Access for Chemistry The team that developed BioMed Central, an open access publishing website, has launched a chemistry version called Chemistry Central. |
Chemistry World
April 24, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Fast-track peer review trial ends following resignations Nature Publishing Group's journal Scientific Reports has ended a trial that allowed authors to pay for fast-track peer reviews after just one month. |
Chemistry World
January 4, 2016
Fang & Casadevall |
The illusion of self-correction Science can be self-correcting, but this requires the concerted efforts of scientists, journals, institutions and governments. |
Chemistry World
March 31, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Scientists raise concern over fast-track peer review scheme Nature Publishing Group's journal Scientific Reports has introduced a trial for a fast-track peer review system, which authors can use if they pay an additional fee. |
Chemistry World
June 22, 2009
Simon Hadlington |
ACS compress print journals to favor online While changing habits among students and researchers have meant that online resources are increasingly popular, old-fashioned print journals are likely to linger for at least some time yet |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2010
Changqing & Xiaodong |
Development Strategy for High-Quality Science and Technology Journals in China The Ministry of Science and Technology of China has planned and executed a development strategy for high-quality ST journals in order to advance the international competitive capacity of China's journals. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
HHMI Teams Up for Open Access Journal HHMI, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust intend to launch an open-access journal for biomedical and life sciences research that breaks the mold set by traditional scientific journals. |
Information Today
January 17, 2012 |
Springer Launches Interdisciplinary Open Access Journal SpringerPlus It is the publisher's first open access journal with a broad interdisciplinary approach covering the entire scientific spectrum. Papers from emerging areas of research are welcome. |
Chemistry World
September 3, 2013
Patrick Walter |
With great blogging power... comes great responsibility The online chemistry community has recently been abuzz with talk of fraud, unethical dealings and dodgy data. |
Chemistry World
April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
Chemistry World
January 31, 2013
Mico Tatalovic |
Citation cartel uncovered in Bosnian journals A Serbian study claims to have uncovered a 'citation cartel' in which two Bosnian journals listed by Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports are practicing an alarming level of misconduct with substantial involvement of large groups of authors from Serbia. |
Geotimes
December 2005
Naomi Lubick |
Open Access Wide Open Open-access publishing has been heralded both as the savior of scientific literature and the death of publishing, but after less than a decade of the practice, its impact remains uncertain. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2014
Laurence Lannom |
Editorial The changes in both scientific journal and data publication, too slow for some, too fast for others, continues to accelerate. |
Chemistry World
July 4, 2011
Andy Extance |
Funders Unveil 'Elite' Open Access Journal The Wellcome Trust, the Max Planck Society and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute are set to launch an open access research journal that will attempt to compete directly for submissions with Cell, Nature and Science. |
D-Lib
September 2003
Andre Skupin |
Review of the Journal Information Visualization Aptly named Information Visualization, its stated goal is to "act as a dedicated forum for the theories, methodologies, techniques and evaluations of information visualization and its applications." |
Chemistry World
June 14, 2012
Simon Hadlington |
Oxo wall still stands as inorganic papers retracted A long-running saga in the rarified world of metal -- oxo chemistry appears to be drawing to a close following the voluntary retraction of three controversial papers |
Chemistry World
September 6, 2013
Mark Peplow |
Misconduct: on the blog and in the open In August, the popular blogs ChemBark and Chemistry Blog made a series of posts about research misconduct relating to alleged data manipulation in three papers. But are blogs the right forum to expose these cases? |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Journal: Scientists at the Heart Journal aims to publish the highest-quality research across the full spectrum of the life sciences. |
Information Today
September 3, 2001
Barbara Quint |
BioMed Central Launches 12 New Author-Initiated Research E-Journals In a major new publishing initiative, BioMed Central has expanded its role in pioneering alternatives for scholarly publishing on the Web... |
Chemistry World
March 7, 2012
Mico Tatalovic |
Croatia to slim down funding for science journals Science journals in Croatia face an uncertain future, with their main funder, the science ministry, announcing changes that will see only the best journals funded. |
Information Today
April 28, 2015 |
Springer Introduces New Data Science and Engineering Journal Springer and the China Computer Federation will publish Data Science and Engineering, a new open access computer science journal. |
Chemistry World
April 2012
James Parry |
Integrity Begins at Home Safeguarding the integrity and quality of research is best achieved through cultural and not regulatory means. |
Information Today
July 31, 2014 |
Brill Announces New OA Journals Brill launched a suite of four online-only, open access journals in humanities, social sciences, law, and biology. |
Chemistry World
November 26, 2015
Derek Lowe |
Emerging from Babel Today, English is the language of science -- but this has not always been the case. |
Chemistry World
November 20, 2007
Hepeng Jia |
China Leaps up Research League Table China has overtaken Japan and the UK to become the world's second largest producer of science and technology (S&T) papers. |
Searcher
January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Reactive Reports
Issue 67
David Bradley |
Reactive Profile--Bryan Vickery, Chemistry Central Having ruined too many pairs of jeans, this chemist opted for a desk job instead of a bench job. He is currently Publisher at BioMed Central with special interest in Chemistry Central. |
Information Today
February 7, 2011 |
Wiley Launches New Program of Open Access Journals The first journals will launch shortly, publishing primary peer-reviewed research in a range of broad-based subject disciplines in the life and biomedical sciences. |
Information Today
February 5, 2009 |
Springer Launches AuthorMapper.com Springer Science+Business Media has launched a free, analytical, online tool for discerning trends, patterns, and subject experts within scientific research. |
Information Today
July 11, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Hoover's Enhances Free Site... Oxford Journals Launch Humanities Archive... New Journal Utilization Solution Under Development... |
Chemistry World
September 14, 2006
Victoria Gill |
Online Access to Centuries of Pioneering Science The Royal Society today launched its complete journals archive in electronic form, making it freely available online for two months. |
Information Today
April 2004
Richard Poynder |
The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need? |
Chemistry World
November 18, 2013
Philip Ball |
Novelty hits top the charts Chemistry scores highly as an interdisciplinary subject on the basis of how often papers within the discipline cite ones from outside -- it is second only to biology, comparable to medical research, and better than, say, physics or earth sciences. |
Chemistry World
June 11, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
Information Today
June 13, 2013 |
SAGE Adds Royal Society of Medicine Journals to Its Collection In November 2012, SAGE Publications announced an agreement with RSM for the transfer of its 28 journals to SAGE, including its 200-year-old flagship publication, the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. |
Information Today
April 10, 2006
Robin Peek |
European Commission Releases Key Scientific Publishing Report The European Commission has finally released its report on scientific publishing and now has firmly placed itself in the international discussion of where such publishing should go in the future. |
ifeminists
February 1, 2006
Wendy McElroy |
Questions to Ask Scientific Authority Stem cell research may be the most sensational and explosive scientific development of recent years. It also highlights the admonition, "Question Authority." |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2007
Arthur Sale |
A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Libraries have traditionally supported researchers as readers, but not as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process. |
Information Today
October 31, 2011 |
Royal Society Guarantees Permanent Free Access to Journal Archive The Royal Society is the world's oldest scientific publisher, with the first edition of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society appearing in 1665. |
Chemistry World
September 29, 2014
Derek Lowe |
Garbage in, garbage out Evaluating scientists is not easy. That's always been the case, and the shortcuts to doing it have been around a long time too. Counting papers and conferences is easy, but stupid. |
Chemistry World
November 24, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Retracted papers get hooked up to linguistic lie-detector Scientists who manipulate or falsify data may be masking their results behind excess jargon in published papers, according to a team of researchers at Stanford University. |
Information Today
March 2001
Paula J. Hane |
bepress.com Introduces Innovative Scholarly Publishing Model A new electronic publishing venture has launched that is taking on the scholarly publishing establishment. bepress.com (The Berkeley Electronic Press) was started by three University of California-Berkeley professors and a programmer from the Inktomi team... |
Chemistry World
September 2, 2013
Derek Lowe |
The never-ending story If you get chemists in a confessional frame of mind, they'll probably tell you that they really don't read the current journals as well as they ought to. |
