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Bio-IT World
February 10, 2003
Kevin Davies |
Library Science Can the obscene costs of subscriptions to specialty journals be justified?   |
Information Today
August 27, 2007
Paula J. Hane |
PLoS and Partners Offer Video Communications With SciVee SciVee lets scientists communicate their works as multimedia presentations incorporated with the content of their published articles. |
Searcher
January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today
June 25, 2012
Abby Clobridge |
PeerJ Launches with a New Business Model for Open Access Publishing PeerJ, launched on June 12, 2012 amid a great deal of buzz, has introduced a new approach into the mix with a two-pronged strategy that includes membership fees to cover costs and ongoing peer-review responsibilities for authors to retain membership. |
Information Today
January 17, 2012 |
Springer Launches Interdisciplinary Open Access Journal SpringerPlus It is the publisher's first open access journal with a broad interdisciplinary approach covering the entire scientific spectrum. Papers from emerging areas of research are welcome. |
Information Today
August 31, 2009
Barbara Quint |
PLoS Currents Uses Google Knol Collections Feature for Swine Flu Reports The Public Library of Science has launched a new experimental service called PLoS Currents, which is designed to support quick turnaround among scientists on hot research topics. |
Chemistry World
March 31, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Scientists raise concern over fast-track peer review scheme Nature Publishing Group's journal Scientific Reports has introduced a trial for a fast-track peer review system, which authors can use if they pay an additional fee. |
Chemistry World
July 4, 2011
Andy Extance |
Funders Unveil 'Elite' Open Access Journal The Wellcome Trust, the Max Planck Society and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute are set to launch an open access research journal that will attempt to compete directly for submissions with Cell, Nature and Science. |
Information Today
February 2002
Dick Kaser |
Ghost in a Bottle The ghost is out of the bottle. That's how Derk Haank describes the current situation in which the authors of scientific papers are taking an increasing interest in who publishes them.... |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2011
Vera Munch |
Open Access: Shaking the Basics of Academic Publishing Although open access is not a new concept, the all-embracing structural upheaval caused by digital technology is still turning academic publishing upside down. |
Information Today
January 2004
Robin Peek |
Open Access Expands Its Reach Trying to keep up with all the recent twists and turns in the open-access movement would make you a busy bee. And just in case you aren't certain about what open access means, BioMed Central would like to help you out. |
Information Today
March 5, 2007 |
Nature Publishing Group Introduces Networking Site for Scientists Nature Publishing Group just released Nature Network, a new free online networking site for scientists worldwide. |
D-Lib
December 1999
Stevan Harnad |
Free at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals Whither the vaunted system of the peer-reviewed journal in this new age of nearly-free cyberpublishing? |
Information Today
July 2, 2001
Robin Peek |
Current Science Group, Elsevier Science Offer New Science Services In an effort to demonstrate that publishers can be just as nimble and creative as new efforts like PubMed, two of them have just announced new services for scientists... |
Information Today
January 7, 2002
Barbara Quint |
BioMed Central Begins Charging Authors and Their Institutions for Article Publishing Starting this month, BioMed Central, the "publishing company committed to a policy of free access to scientific research" (as it describes itself), will introduce a processing charge for articles published in its nearly 60 online journals... |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Robert Tjian |
President's Letter: Journal: Scientists at the Heart Journal aims to publish the highest-quality research across the full spectrum of the life sciences. |
Chemistry World
April 24, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Fast-track peer review trial ends following resignations Nature Publishing Group's journal Scientific Reports has ended a trial that allowed authors to pay for fast-track peer reviews after just one month. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2012
David Shotton |
The Five Stars of Online Journal Articles -- a Framework for Article Evaluation I propose five factors -- peer review, open access, enriched content, available datasets and machine-readable metadata -- as the Five Stars of Online Journal Articles. |
Searcher
October 2000
Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo |
Preprint Servers: Pushing the Envelope of Electronic Scholarly Publishing Consulting with peers has traditionally dominated the way researchers gather information. Those peers often identify proposed publications. Electronic preprints allow access to information without the time lag inherent in traditional publishing... |
Chemistry World
February 19, 2015
Francois-Xavier Coudert |
Setting the record straight It is every scientist's duty to add knowledge to this record, but also to safeguard its integrity by checking that others' work is reproducible. |
Information Today
October 2004
Richard Poynder |
Poynder On Point: Ten Years After A decade after professor Stevan Harnad posted what he called a "subversive proposal" to the Electronic Journals mailing list at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, open access (OA) is now threatening to overturn the $6 billion scholarly publishing industry and is forcing even the largest publishers against the ropes. |
Information Today
August 2006
Robin Peek |
The Impact of Open Choice The findings of a study released last month reveal that articles that are published by the author-pays open access approach are cited more often than those that are published in the same journal and that are publicly released 6 months after publication. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2009
Giglia & Galimberti |
ELPUB 2009 - Rethinking Electronic Publishing: Innovation in Communication Paradigms and Technologies In the three-day event, 40 speakers from each of the five continents presented papers on Open Access, digital preservation, and scholarly communication processes and quality control. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2009
Elena Giglia |
Report on OAI 6 Details from the Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication held in Geneva this year in June. |
Information Today
March 22, 2004
Paula J. Hane |
U.K. Parliamentary Committee Holds Hearings on Scientific Publishing On March 1 and 8, the U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee held the first two days of hearings as part of its inquiry into the pricing and availability of scientific publications and possible government support for open access publishing. |
Chemistry World
December 4, 2013
Andy Extance |
Subjectivity may curb false findings UK researchers have suggested that purely objective scientific peer review could fail to eliminate false theories. |
Wired
June 2006
Jamie Shreeve |
Free Radical Harold Varmus won a Nobel Prize for changing how we think about cancer. Then he overhauled the NIH. Now he's battling publishers to make all scientific research free and universally available. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2011
Pfeiffenberger & Carlson |
"Earth System Science Data" (ESSD) - A Peer Reviewed Journal for Publication of Data Making data -- technically -- citable has been a theme for a number of years. |
Information Today
August 13, 2013 |
F1000 Partners With PLoS to Study Open Access Journal Metrics F1000's F1000Prime directory of biology and medicine journal articles is now accessible to PLoS researchers who need more information on the impact of their articles. |
Information Today
January 14, 2013 |
F1000Research Launches Following Successful Beta-Testing Phase Launching on a new publishing platform, F1000Research is F1000's new Open Science publishing program for life scientists, offering researchers for the first time immediate publication, transparent and fast peer-review post-publication, and full data deposition and sharing. |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2015
Assante et al. |
Science 2.0 Repositories: Time for a Change in Scholarly Communication In this work we introduce the notion of Science 2.0 Repository that aims at overcoming the methodological barriers by providing scientists with an integrated and innovative environment that supports "within" and "during" scholarly communication workflows. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
HHMI Teams Up for Open Access Journal HHMI, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust intend to launch an open-access journal for biomedical and life sciences research that breaks the mold set by traditional scientific journals. |
Information Today
April 2004
Richard Poynder |
The Inevitable and the Optimal What measures are being taken in the U.K. government, the publishing industry, and academic institutions to ensure that researchers, teachers, and students have access to the publications they need? |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2012
McMahon et al. |
Social Awareness Tools For Science Research Tools for social networking and social awareness are developing rapidly and evolving continuously. They are gaining popularity in a growing number of professional as well as personal activities, including scholarly research. |
Information Today
August 23, 2012 |
Reproducibility Initiative to Increase the Value of Biomedical Research Science Exchange, in partnership with open access publisher PLOS and open data repository figshare, announced the launch of the Reproducibility Initiative. |
Chemistry World
October 22, 2013
Andy Roast |
Science communication: a practical guide for scientists This book by Bowater and Yeoman begins with the emergence and importance of science communication, providing many good reasons for engaging the public with scientific research. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 67
David Bradley |
Reactive Profile--Bryan Vickery, Chemistry Central Having ruined too many pairs of jeans, this chemist opted for a desk job instead of a bench job. He is currently Publisher at BioMed Central with special interest in Chemistry Central. |
Information Today
March 2003
Dick Kaser |
The Future of Journals Elsevier executive Pieter Bolman talks about the future of scholarly publishing and the competition emerging from alternative publication models like the Public Library of Science |
Chemistry World
July 16, 2014
Patrick Walter |
Royal Society of Chemistry's flagship journal now free to access Chemical Science will be free to access from January 2015, and author fees for publishing in the journal will be suspended until 2017. |
Information Today
October 20, 2008 |
New Collaboration Project of Publishers, Repositories, and Researchers Launched--PEER The publishing and research communities share the view that increased access to the results of EU-funded research is necessary to maximize their use and impact. |
Chemistry World
October 16, 2014
John Ioannidis |
Not all science is created equal The way the scientific method is implemented and the standards of research in each discipline can vary substantially. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2011
Elena Giglia |
Open Access, Open Data: Paradigm Shifts in the Changing Scholarly Communication Scenario The Open Access Open Data conference was held December, 2010 in Cologne, Germany. The purpose of the conference was to examine the development of the Open Access movement during the last five years and how it will change. |
Information Today
February 18, 2002
Richard Poynder |
George Soros Gives $3 Million to New Open Access Initiative A new initiative to help provide free access to refereed articles on the Internet has received $3 million in funding from financier and philanthropist George Soros' Open Society Institute... |
Information Today
April 10, 2006
Robin Peek |
European Commission Releases Key Scientific Publishing Report The European Commission has finally released its report on scientific publishing and now has firmly placed itself in the international discussion of where such publishing should go in the future. |
Reason
October 2007
Ronald Bailey |
Is Industry-Funded Science Killing You? The overrated risks and underrated benefits of pharmaceutical research "conflicts of interest." |
Chemistry World
February 21, 2013
Laura Howes |
New publishing models test the water Two new companies have launched in the biomedical field to take the academic publishing industry further into uncharted territory. How they suceed may affect the whole industry. |
Information Today
July 7, 2003
Miriam. A. Drake |
Free Public Access to Science -- Will It Happen? If Congressman Martin Sabo of Minnesota has his way, the results of federally funded research in science and medicine will be available freely to all. |
Information Today
December 30, 2002 |
NewsBreaks Weekly News Digest Yahoo! to Acquire Inktomi... Nstein and Gale Announce Partnership... AIP Offers Free Bibliographic Search Service... Public Library of Science Announces New Journals |
Information Today
January 10, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Info Pros Join Tsunami Relief Effort... Tsunami Lecture Available Through Supercourse... PLoS Announces New Community OA Journals... |
Chemistry World
April 23, 2015
Maria Burke |
Grant application peer review system 'works well' The role of peer review in assessing grant applications has often been the subject of debate among scientists. Now, a recent analysis by US researchers suggests the system is working well. |
