Springer Nature has been busy finding new ways to serve the research community. Close on the heels of the release of SharedIt and Recommended they have now pioneered SciGraph. SciGraph is a Linked Open Data platform that contains…

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 peer-reviewed journal. It means esteem for the work, for them,…

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 analyses to be taken to the next level in order to further…

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 selected for publication? What are the politics behind…

In February 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a policy memorandum directing: “Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D expenditures to develop plans to make the published results of…