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Chemistry World
September 9, 2009
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Peer review under the microscope One of the largest ever international surveys of authors and reviewers has reiterated concerns over integrity, demand and quality control in peer review and highlighted the system's inability to effectively detect plagiarism.   |
Chemistry World
October 23, 2012
Leila Sattary |
EPSRC grant success rates rise The UK's largest physical sciences funding agency has experienced a significant decrease in the number of applications submitted in 2011 -- 12, which has led to the highest grant success rates in the last decade. |
Chemistry World
July 27, 2011
Leila Sattary |
Research council to pick favorites to receive UK chemistry funding The UK's largest physical sciences funding agency has announced a big policy shakeup which will concentrate research money in areas of 'national importance'. |
Information Today
August 20, 2015 |
Science Journal Gains Support From the Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry agreed to collaborate with Royal Society Publishing on its Royal Society Open Science open access journal. |
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. |
Information Today
April 2003
Robin Peek |
Could Peer Review Be Wrong? Seriously questioning the validity of the peer-review process is like debating the merits of a holy grail. But two scholarly societies are now asking if peer review is in fact such a good thing. |
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. |
Bio-IT World
Jul/Aug 2006
Kevin Davies |
Science Publishing and the Web Several technologies are poised to radically change the ability of scientists to share data and develop ideas both within and between organizations: Nature Network Boston... PLoS ONE... |
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. |
Chemistry World
May 2009 |
Funding fall-outs The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council recently announced plans to ban persistently unsuccessful grant applicants for one year. Why did it do this and why are some UK chemists unhappy about it? |
D-Lib
Jan/Feb 2011
Waaijers & van der Graaf |
Quality of Research Data, an Operational Approach This article reports on a study, commissioned by SURFfoundation, investigating the operational aspects of the concept of quality for the various phases in the life cycle of research data: production, management, and use/re-use. |
Scientific American
February 28, 2005
Charles Q. Choi |
Back to Square One After 15 years, cold fusion got a second chance at legitimacy from the U.S. Department of Energy, often seen by cold fusion advocates as their greatest enemy. History repeated itself, with a verdict that evidence remained inconclusive. |
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. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012 |
eLife Announces Editors, Launches Website The editorial board of eLife, the new journal for life and biomedical science launched with the support of HHMI, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust, announced the names of the more than 150 reviewing editors who will help deliver on the initiative's commitment to change peer review. |
Chemistry World
January 2008
Gurney & Adams |
Comment: How Good is UK Chemistry? Using bibliometrics as the key measure, the author compares the publication output of different countries. |
Chemistry World
December 7, 2006
Richard Van Noorden |
Quality by Numbers The UK government has announced a shake-up in the way university research is assessed and funded. |
Chemistry World
July 14, 2015
Anthony King |
Metrics have their place but peer review remains king The Higher Education Funding Council for England is working on the next assessment of UK universities, the Research Excellence Framework. The outcome of REF affects the distribution of around 1.6 billion pounds of funding to universities. |
Chemistry World
November 17, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
Nobel laureates appeal for open access In an open letter to United States lawmakers, 41 Nobel laureates endorse the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2009 for open access publishing |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2010
Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay |
Chemists slam Science paper A paper published in the prestigious journal Science has caused a commotion in the chemistry community, with the synthetic processes discussed in the paper dismissed as nonsense and accusations of a failure in Science's peer review system. |
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
February 24, 2015 |
NPG Introduces Double-Blind Peer-Review Option Nature Publishing Group announced that in March 2015, authors will be able to opt for double-blind peer review -- wherein both the authors and the reviewers are anonymous. |
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. |
Chemistry World
February 3, 2012
Patrick Walter |
NERC asks institutes to weed out poor grants The UK Natural Environment Research Council is planning to ask institutes to winnow out 'uncompetitive' proposals in an effort to drive up its grant application success rates. |
Chemistry World
March 2007
Richard Van Noorden |
Riding the RAE Rollercoaster For chemists, a shift to metrics may bring welcome relief from the time-consuming and onerous RAE, first praised but increasingly criticized for its effect on UK research. |
Chemistry World
January 16, 2015
Matthew Gunther |
Open access journal to pay peer reviewers Under the new scheme a peer reviewer will receive a fraction of the article processing charge, which an institution must pay to publish a paper upon acceptance. |
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. |
ONLINE
September 2001
Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading on Library Issues Creating Web-Accessible Databases: Case Studies for Libraries, Museums, and Other Nonprofits... Caught in a Web: Intellectual Property in Cyberspace... Super Searchers on Mergers & Acquisitions: The Online Secrets of Top Corporate Researchers and M&A Pros... etc. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
March 29, 2004
Otis Port |
More Bang From The Bubble? "Sonofusion" may one day outshine other nuclear methods in generating energy |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2009
Stephanie Bianchi |
Peerless Pathways to Find Peer Reviewers A workshop was offered to all new program officers at NSF on how to use standard library resources to quickly and easily find and evaluate possible peer reviewers, even if the subject area was unfamiliar. |
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. |
