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About Rebecca Benner Rebecca Benner is Senior Director and Managing Editor at Obstetrics & Gynecology (The Green Journal). She is responsible for coordinating the efforts…

Open access publishing is increasingly gaining popularity as funders, research institutions, scholars, and publishers are now seeking newer avenues to make science accessible to…

In 2008, SPARC and its partners in the student community established the International Open Access Week to increase the visibility of research and the impact it has on the…

As academic publishing has made the transition from print editions to electronic editions, librarians, facing leaner budgets and an inability to deselect specific low-interest…

The Open Access Week, a global event promoting open access publishing is now in its ninth year—and all the efforts made during this time to support this initiative seems to have…

During the second Peer Review Week in 2016, there were extensve discussions on how the institution of peer review is far from perfect. The problems with peer review in scientific…

In this age of information overload, there are several ideas that can be considered innovative or can lead to a new scientific development. Given the extent of information that is…

You may have read our experts' take on the benefits of individual researchers using Kudos. Last year in October 2015, Kudos also launched a new platform called Kudos for…

The Nobel Prize is the most prestigious award given in recognition of academic, cultural, and/or scientific advances. The Nobel prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and…

In 2014, fresh out of a successful trading algorithm startup, internet entrepreneur Jesse Spaulding began to think about the academic environment in which science is conducted from…

When Vivian Chan was studying for her PhD in Biochemistry, she encountered a problem that most scientists have confronted: how can you keep yourself updated with the enormous…

Academic journals are generally subscribed by individual subscribers (researchers, faculty, and industry professionals) as well as institutional subscribers (usually libraries).…