Sci-Hub’s Domain Inactive Following Court’s Order
Following a recent ruling by a district court in Virginia in favor of the American Chemical Society (ACS), several domains of the controversial pirate website, Sci-Hub, have become…
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Metadata 2020: Enriching Research Data
The Metadata 2020 program will advocate for richer metadata. Metadata is simply digital data that describes other data. This ambitious program is spearheaded by CrossRef and…
Research Fronts 2017: A Collaborative Fourth Annual Report on Global Scientific Research
Clarivate Analytics and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) collaborated and released their fourth annual global scientific report “Research Fronts 2017” on November 2, 2017, at…
Does Open Access Publishing Have a Bright Future? Detailed Study Reveals the Truth
The fight for open access is almost 15 years old now. Has it made real gains? Open access (OA) remains controversial and obviously threatens commercial journal publishers that…
Will Open Access & Open Science Disrupt the Future of Academic Publishing?
There has been an explosion of scientific progress in the last few decades. Thanks to the development of new technologies, we are now closer than ever in overcoming hurdles such as…
New Research Initiatives under Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020 is an initiative by the European Union. This research and innovation programme will funnel €80 billion between 2014 and 2020 to support scientific breakthroughs and…
Know More About SciCrunch and RRIDs: An Interview With Dr. Anita Bandrowski (Part 2)
In the second part of this interview series, Anita shares with us the importance of Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs) and how they can improve the value of a research paper.…
2017 World Conference of Science Journalists
The World Federation of Science Journalists hosted the World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ) in San Francisco, USA from October 26-30 2017. The federation has 9,000…
Springer Nature Censorship: Publisher Blocks Access to Articles in China
Springer Nature censorship on about 1000+ articles online in China shows how academic freedom has to comply with specific local regulations of the government. The censored academic…
Brexit Negatively Impacting Research Collaborations
The United Kingdom’s decision to go ahead with Brexit is affecting universities across the European Union (EU) according to a recent report. Under the EU agreements, researchers …
Stephen Hawking’s PhD Thesis Crashes Internet
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On the 23rd October 2017, the University of Cambridge offered public access to the doctoral thesis of the young Stephen Hawking. This…
Predatory Conferences on the Rise
Many academics have been pawned by predatory elements in scholarly publishing—predatory journals or conferences. These appear to be similar to legitimate academic journals or…