Researchfish & F1000 Aim to Improve Research Evaluation
Researchfish was born out of the need to accurately quantify and assess the impact of research that had been supported by grant funding. Originally conceptualized for the United…
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ArXiv Next Generation – The Upgrade Plan
ArXiv is an open access repository maintained by the Cornell University Library. Articles deposited in arXiv are subject to moderation by more than 150 subject experts who…
Boycott of Elsevier Journals: Can New Ideas Reduce the Cost for Scientific Publications?
Recently, researchers in Germany, Peru, and Taiwan found themselves without access to many online scientific journals. Negotiations with Elsevier, a major scientific journal…
Predicting the Future of Research
Publications, by their very nature, represent the end of a cycle of research. A set of scientists pose a research question, do some experiments, and arrive at an answer to their…
Gates Foundation Accelerating Open Access
Traditionally, academic research frequently existed behind a paywall. This meant that in order to access journal articles, a researcher would have to pay to rent or download an…
The PubPub Is Open! Collaborative Publishing for All
PubPub is an open collaborative publishing tool devised by three Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate students: Travis Rich, Thariq Shihipar, and David Moinina…
Center for Open Science: Will It Disrupt Subscription-Based Publishing?
Academic publishing is still largely the domain of traditional academic journals. Academics understand the impact of their work when published in an established and prestigious…
The Global Scientific Village: Open Access Driving Collaborative Research
Scientists Working Together
Collaboration is undoubtedly a powerful tool. Bringing groups of scientists together with different skill sets makes it possible to answer complex…
Jeffrey Beall Pulls the Plug on Scholarly Open Access
In 2010, Jeffrey Beall, an academic librarian at the Auraria Library at University of Colorado, Denver (CU Denver), started curating a list of allegedly predatory…
China’s Stand against Academic Misconduct
The Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST)—one of China’s main research agencies—is taking drastic measures against scholars involved in academic misconduct. In an…
Transparent Peer Review a Success at Nature Journals
Across many scientific disciplines, the voluntary peer review system is strained, if not under outright siege1,2. This trend is of great concern because peer review is an essential…
Commons Open Repository Exchange: Open Access for Humanities Gets Ambitious
In January 2013, the Modern Language Association (MLA) introduced the MLA Commons. It was their first attempt to create an open access publishing forum within the organization.…