Scientists, institutions and journals have been increasingly evaluated statistically, by metrics that focus on the number of published reports rather than on their content, raising a concern that ...
Read ItWhy would anyone thank a publisher for his permission to reprint an article as part of a dissertation, instead of thanking the publisher for printing it in the first place?
Read ItThe Journal of Open Research Software (JORS) is an open access journal, which publishes peer reviewed software papers. Software papers describe open source software for research with high reuse pot...
Read ItA brief account of the Medical Hypotheses Affair may be found here: http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.com/2010/05/medical-hypotheses-affair-times-higher.html But there is one general aspect which ...
Read ItBig science is on the rise. Recent endeavors, such as the Large Hadron Collider and the Human Genome Project, illustrate the rise in large-scale scientific inquiries. To assess whether big science ...
Read ItThis is an open letter concerning the recent launch of the new open access journal, Science Advances. In addition to the welcome diversification in journal choices for authors looking for open acce...
Read It<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> This is an open letter concerning the recent launch of the new open access journal, eNeur...
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Read ItAccess to research is limited worldwide by the high cost of subscription journals that require readers to pay to view content. The reuse of scientific research in educational materials, new studies...
Read ItIn their letter, "Ailing academia needs culture change" (1), V. Callier and N. L. Vanderford highlight the inherent institutional instability that has been generated by flooding academic science wi...
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Clay Shirky's widely quoted observation that publishing is now “just a button” has divided opinion in among academics. The confusion is due to pun on the word “publishing”, which in academic cir...
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