Dryad and DANS Ensure Permanence of Research Data
Dryad and DANS have entered into a new partnership. These free research databases announced a collaboration to ensure the preservation of a rich research data repository. Dryad…
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Growing Crisis: Brain Drain Crisis in Latin America
Investment in innovation has long-term benefits. This is one of the reasons governments fund scientific research. These investments have an undeniable impact on research projects.…
Uncovering the Real Reasons Behind Beall’s Predatory Journals List Disappearing
Deciding where to publish your research is already tough enough. Even worse, some journals out there simply seek to make money off researchers by offering to publish their…
ScienceFair: Research Literature Reimagined
ScienceFair is a new program built on the idea that access to the scholarly literature should be independent of the influence of large publishers. In some cases, the platforms that…
Clarivate Analytics Establishes Partnership with Impactstory
Clarivate Analytics has recently announced a partnership with Impactstory. Under the agreement, Clarivate Analytics will help fund Impactstory’s oaDOI service. This should make it…
German Professor Penalized for Gross Negligence
A recently concluded investigation by the Review Board set up by the Executive Board of the Leibniz Association has found Prof. Dr. Karl Lenhard Rudolph guilty of research…
Open Research Gets a Boost from Scholarly Commons
The process of research seems simple from the outside: read, experiment, publish, and repeat. Yet, paywalls formed by national or cultural groups is a barrier to scholarly…
OpenCon 2017: Advancing Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data
Scientific research generates an immense amount of data. It is critical to not only make this data available to research community but also use it to decide on the next…
Springer Journals Signs DORA and Expands ORCID Initiative
The journal impact factor, initially conceived by Dr. Eugene Garfield as a way to measure the quality of scholarly journals, has frequently been misused. Impact factors are used as…
ESCI – The Source of Discovery and Curation in Academic Research
It is indeed surprising to realize that a new generation of researchers has grown up believing that doing research online has always been the status quo. This new breed of graduate…
Elsevier Seeks Millions from Sci-Hub for Copyright Infringement
In the ongoing battle between scientific publisher and websites with a guerilla open access policy, a New York court has ruled that these pirate websites owe Elsevier $15 million.…
Exploring Video Journals: An Interview with Latest Thinking
Research papers are evidently quite difficult to interpret and understand especially for an audience that is not very familiar with the research topic. In order to make scientific…