Presentation of a new peer reviewing model based on the reviewers’ private thoughts. In a common process, peer reviewers may be asked to stick to an objective assessment of whether a paper’s methods look sound. And this, the author thinks, can be damaging especially in some contentious fields.
Scientists overwhelmingly support the notion of making research papers freely available, but fewer publish their work in so-called open-access journals that make papers free immediately upon publication.
The journal Science has uncovered, via investigation, a thriving black market in science paper authoring—people are paying to have their names added to papers that have been written to describe research efforts.
ALLEA (All European Academies) has released a paper which invites European authorities to take measures facilitating an Open Access model under consideration of the specificities of the various scientific disciplines.
“Open Access” can be a very confusing term as several models coexist. Overview of the main ones.
The comeback of paying online content for the newspapers following the important decrease of advertising revenues.
This year’s Open Access Week, a global event that just finished its sixth year, was held Oct. 21–27, 2013. Celebrations of various types were sponsored by libraries, students, researchers, publishers, and nonprofit organizations to increase awareness about open access (OA).
Society publishers face a number of challenges as a result of declining subscriptions, increased competition, demand for mobile access, increasing production prices, and open access mandates. This study is a review of scholarly journal price trends during the past year.
Latest report on the Keepers Registry’s activity by Peter Burnhill, Director of EDINA and Head of Edinburgh University Data Library. The Keepers’s registry is a service which helps you discover which e-journals are being archived and by what organization.
The new interface for SUNCAT (the Serials Union Catalogue for the UK research community) is now available, it includes improved pre-search library and geographic limits, the ability to combine pre-search limits, and the introduction of post-search filters, links to the local catalogues of holding libraries.
