How Open Science is Helping Researchers Succeed
In academic research, researchers are meant to share information in an open manner in order to foster a more scholarly environment. Open science promotes collaborations and enables…
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Year in Review: Highlights for Enago in 2016
As 2016 draws to a close, we look back at some of the most popular highlights of Enago. In the last year, we have been able to realize our objective of reaching out to the academic…
Open Scholarship Initiative: Global Enrichment or International Pandemonium?
The world of scholarly publishing has always been fraught with issues of access, authority, politics, and funding. Who has access to academic journals? How are studies and articles…
Is Open Access Publishing Cost Effective?
The concept of open access publishing is fairly new compared to how long researchers have been publishing in academic journals. At present, open access is now an accepted way of…
Six Months after Brexit: What Next?
In June 2016, Britain voted in favor of leaving the European Union (EU) in what can be considered a historical referendum. For most of us, this news came as a surprise. Since then,…
How Is Sci-Hub Affecting Academic Publishing?
In 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan, a graduate student in Kazakhstan, started a website known as Sci-Hub. Since its inception, the site has gained an increasing amount of attention. In…
How Is Data-Intensive Research Changing Science?
Scientists are particularly interested in collecting data, and the success of each experiment is determined by the novel data that is generated, which can contribute to advancing…
Recognizing Peer Review through Publons
The peer review process is a crucial part of scholarly communication, but without good referees, the system would not work. However, researchers barely get credit for this…
Challenges in Growth of Open Access Publishing
Open access publishing is increasingly gaining popularity as funders, research institutions, scholars, and publishers are now seeking newer avenues to make science accessible to…
Open Access Week 2016: Open In Action
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…
Big Data and Its Impact on Academic Publishing
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…
Open Access in 2016: Developments and Its Impact
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…
