Open Access

To promote scientific research, it is important that exchange of information and ideas is encouraged at all levels. Since the 1970s, the open access (OA) movement has supported and…

A “repository” is a receptacle in which data are kept and made available. In academic publishing, many major universities and its libraries have their own repositories for academic…

Image credits: Nature News Scientists can now offer “preprints” to their colleagues for review, rating, and comment. These preprints are available online from the bioRxiv…

Researchers are heading in a new direction in the attempt to publish their scientific research papers. Given the time involved in the peer review process, submissions going back…

One of the reasons copyright laws exists is to prevent others from using a created work (and benefiting from it) without acknowledging its creators. Rightfully, some share of the…

The open access–journal publishing trend has hit the world of academic book publishing. The traditional business model for monograph publishing is lagging behind the others in the…

Open access (OA) publishing means allowing access to published articles without a fee or costly subscriptions, a concept well received by researchers, scholars, and libraries, but…

In recent times, open access publishing has been gaining popularity in the scholarly community from funders, research organizations, universities, publishers, and researchers due…

Scientific publishers who rely on a subscription-based business model may be particularly interested in the results of a survey released recently by Kudos. By collaborating with…

Scientific publisher Wiley has recently launched Plant Direct and Health Science Reports, both of which are open access journals. Plant Direct is a community journal that…

When the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) officially launched Open Access Week in 2008, it envisioned a world where research and its implications were…

It can be quite difficult to organize a prepublication independent replication study to test if the effect that you detected is real. This is just one of the problems that…