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Chemistry World November 5, 2012 Mico Tatalovic |
Scientists petition Serbian government to tackle misconduct More than 800 scientists have signed a petition started two weeks ago campaigning for an overhaul of research ethics and the assessment process for researchers in Serbia, amid systematic and widely-tolerated academic misconduct. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today July 16, 2013 |
Springer Renews Its Commitment to Open Access Springer Science+Business Media announced that the influence of its open access journals has increased over the past year. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today January 26, 2009 |
Nature Publishing Group Expands Open Access Choices Nature Publishing Group is expanding open access choices for authors in 2009, through both "green" self-archiving and "gold" (authors-pays) open access publication routes. |
Information Today March 26, 2015 |
ReadCube Gains IOP Publishing Content Thirty-four of IOP Publishing's journals are now discoverable via ReadCube's web, desktop, and mobile platform. |
D-Lib June 2004 Harnad & Brody |
Comparing the Impact of Open Access (OA) vs. Non-OA Articles in the Same Journals The way to test the impact advantage of Open Access (OA) is not to compare the citation impact factors of OA and non-OA journals but to compare the citation counts of individual OA and non-OA articles appearing in the same (non-OA) 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. |
D-Lib October 2005 Shaw & Vaughan |
To the Editor (October 2005) Researchers respond to "An Examination of Citation Counts in a New Scholarly Communication Environment" and detail other studies in this area. |
Information Today August 2006 Robin Peek |
The Impact of Open Choice The findings of a study released last month reveal that articles that are published by the author-pays open access approach are cited more often than those that are published in the same journal and that are publicly released 6 months after publication. |
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... |
D-Lib Taemin Kim Park |
D-Lib Magazine: Its First 13 Years By the use of bibliometric techniques, authorship characteristics of D-Lib Magazine are studied. |
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 January 15, 2010 Ned Stafford |
China: act on scientific fraud The Chinese government is being called on to do more to ensure the scientific integrity of its researchers after UK-based journal Acta Crystallographica Section E was forced to retract dozens of papers describing over 70 crystal structures found to have been fabricated by Chinese researchers. |
Chemistry World April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
Wired May 22, 2009 Guy Gugliotta |
The Genius Index: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules The h-index is the number n of a researcher's papers that have been cited by other papers at least n times. High numbers = important science = important scientist. |
Chemistry World October 2, 2006 Gill & Sanderson |
RSC to Launch Open Access Hybrid Model In a move to keep RSC publishing competitive, authors of RSC journal papers can now choose to have their research freely available the moment it is published -- for a fee. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2010 Stevan Harnad |
No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed Plans by universities and research funders to pay the costs of Open Access Publishing ("Gold OA") are premature. |
Chemistry World July 16, 2014 Patrick Walter |
Royal Society of Chemistry's flagship journal now free to access Chemical Science will be free to access from January 2015, and author fees for publishing in the journal will be suspended until 2017. |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2009 Stephanie Bianchi |
Peerless Pathways to Find Peer Reviewers A workshop was offered to all new program officers at NSF on how to use standard library resources to quickly and easily find and evaluate possible peer reviewers, even if the subject area was unfamiliar. |
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 2005 Bauer & Bakkalbasi |
An Examination of Citation Counts in a New Scholarly Communication Environment A study comparing the citation counts from three resources for research articles taken from the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. |
Information Today June 9, 2008 Nancy Herther |
Elsevier Releases Scopus Journal Analyzer Subscribers to Elsevier's Scopus have a new tool to aid in evaluating journal performance over time. |
Fast Company Elizabeth Segran |
Why A Fake Article Titled "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?" Was Accepted By 17 Medical Journals A medical researcher at Harvard, Mark Shrime decided to see how easy it would be to publish an article. So he made one up. He did it using a website called randomtextgenerator. |
Information Today February 24, 2015 |
NPG Introduces Double-Blind Peer-Review Option Nature Publishing Group announced that in March 2015, authors will be able to opt for double-blind peer review -- wherein both the authors and the reviewers are anonymous. |
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. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2005 Joanna Breitstein |
Turn the Page Changes in ethics and expectations are driving the way pharma interacts with medical publishers. |
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? |
Information Today February 2007 Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
Information Today March 25, 2014 |
DOAJ Updates Application Form The Directory of Open Access Journals form now includes as many quality indicators as possible as well as extensive information about the journals that publishers need to supply. |
D-Lib February 2006 Esther Hoorn |
Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective A survey reveals the desire on the part of academics to change the balance of rights within copyright between authors and publishers in scholarly communication journals. |
Information Today January 2005 Richard Poynder |
Interview with Vitek Tracz: Essential for Science Convinced that all research must ultimately be freely available on the Web, the chairman of the London-based Current Science Group has become a powerful advocate for open access. |
Information Today April 9, 2012 |
BioMed Central, LabArchives to Link Data Sets With Journal Articles Through a new collaboration, authors submitting articles to selected BioMed Central journals will be provided with complimentary subscriptions to an enhanced version of the popular LabArchives Electronic Laboratory Notebook software. |
Information Today January 7, 2013 Robin Peek |
eLife, a New Scholarly Communication System eLife is "a researcher-led digital publication for outstanding work, a platform to maximize the reach and influence of new findings and a showcase for new approaches for the presentation and assessment of research." |
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... |
Searcher October 2000 Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo |
Preprint Servers: Pushing the Envelope of Electronic Scholarly Publishing Consulting with peers has traditionally dominated the way researchers gather information. Those peers often identify proposed publications. Electronic preprints allow access to information without the time lag inherent in traditional publishing... |
D-Lib April 2009 Cerda, Nieto & Campos |
What's Wrong with Citation Counts? Citation analysis needs an in-depth transformation. |
Information Today August 22, 2013 |
Brill Adopts OA Model for Books Brill, a Netherlands-based publisher in the humanities, social sciences, international law, and biology fields, is now publishing open access books. |
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 June 19, 2012 |
Finch report backs open access for UK This would allow more people free access to research publications than ever before. However, the report warns that it could cost UK higher education as much as an extra 50 -- 60 million pounds a year. |
Information Today January 7, 2002 Barbara Quint |
BioMed Central Begins Charging Authors and Their Institutions for Article Publishing Starting this month, BioMed Central, the "publishing company committed to a policy of free access to scientific research" (as it describes itself), will introduce a processing charge for articles published in its nearly 60 online journals... |
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 |