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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
July 29, 2011
Josh Howgego |
UK Research Needs an Independent Integrity Body A UK government report claims that the oversight of research integrity is unsatisfactory and recommends that an independent regulator be set up to oversee integrity. |
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
February 2007
John O'Reilly |
The Tyranny of Peer Review? All of us involved in the scientific peer review process must avoid being unduly conservative or risk-averse if we are to secure the required balanced research investment portfolio, including an appropriate proportion of high-risk, high-return activities. |
Information Today
December 18, 2014 |
Thomson Reuters and Ringgold Streamline Peer Review The integration of Ringgold's Identify Database into ScholarOne Manuscripts peer review tool will simplify the task of accurately identifying the institutional affiliation of authors and reviewers. |
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
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. |
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. |
Information Today
February 2, 2004
Jim Ashling |
Emerald Introduces New Journal Publication System U.K.-based international publisher Emerald has developed a new article submission and peer review system, called JADE (Journal Article Delivery Engine). |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
February 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
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. |
Information Today
August 27, 2007 |
Scholarly Publishers Launch PRISM Coalition The Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine (PRISM) is a coalition launched to alert Congress to the unintended consequences of government interference in scientific and scholarly publishing. |
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
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
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. |
Chemistry World
April 22, 2009
Killugudi Jayaraman |
Call for Indian plagiarism watchdog It is just over a year since Pattium Chiranjeevi, from Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati, was accused of one of the biggest cases of scientific fraud in chemistry |
Information Today
April 19, 2004
Robin Peek |
OFAC Removes Editorial Restrictions from IEEE The U.S. Dept. of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has ruled that The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers' (IEEE) peer review, editing, and publication of scholarly manuscripts is "not constrained by OFAC's regulatory programs." |
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
March 4, 2013
Leila Sattary |
UK funders get tough on research misconduct Universities who do not take cases of research misconduct seriously could have their funding withdrawn. The new sanctions are set out in the revised Policy and Guidelines on Governance of Good Research Conduct, published by Research Councils UK |
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. |
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
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? |
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. |
Managed Care
November 1999
Mark D. Abruzzo, J.D. |
Peer Review May Not Be Confidential When Fairness of Process Is at Issue ...In Pennsylvania, peer review protection took a hit on Oct. 1 when the state Supreme Court ruled that physician peer review at hospitals cannot always be kept confidential... |
Information Today
May 5, 2015 |
Elsevier Supports Researchers With Online Training Campus; Updates Article-Sharing Policies Elsevier launched Elsevier Publishing Campus, a free online platform that offers training resources to academic researchers. |
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. |
Information Today
December 12, 2011
Robin Peek |
QScience Connect Redefines Scholarly Journals QScience Connect breaks the boundaries of a peer-reviewed traditional scholarly journal that is defined by a discipline or field. |
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
October 2003
Geneva Henry |
On-line Publishing in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities To understand where publishing is headed, we must consider the possibilities of what can be achieved with new technologies that enable the exchange of knowledge and information in unprecedented ways. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2002
Judith B. Rajala |
Citation & Plagiarism With the amount of easy-to-access material on the Internet, the ever-present opportunity and temptation exists for plagiarism. Teaching proper research techniques and citation is crucial to prevention. It's also important to learn how to detect plagiarism, should there be a need. |
Information Today
January 17, 2012
Robin Peek |
Research Works Act Could Challenge Public Access to Federally Funded Research This act is designed to thwart activities such as the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, which requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central. |
CRM
July 1, 2010
Filiberto Selvas |
Fishing Where the Fish Are (with Your Influencers' Help) The peer influencer in the era of the social operating system and the distributed online community. |
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. |
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. |
Chemistry World
October 31, 2012
Ian Le Guillou |
How do you solve a problem like misconduct? Against a backdrop of a rapid increase in misconduct cases, representatives of the world's scientific societies and academies have banded together to produce a plan to shore up research integrity. |
Chemistry World
October 27, 2009
Sarah Houlton |
ERC overhaul in wake of review The European Commission has responded to heavy criticism of the European Research Council by pledging to streamline its peer review process and hire a 'distinguished scientist' to run the agency. |
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. |
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
March 12, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
Funding Shift Worries Researchers Government and research funding bodies are shifting funding towards projects with measurable societal and economic impact -- triggering protests from many academics, who see the strategy as dangerously short sighted. |
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. |
Job Journal
July 30, 2006
Bob Rosner |
Working Wounded: Readers Pan Peer Interviews Readers vote thumbs down on "peer interviews." |
Chemistry World
June 11, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
US spends billions annually on unreproducible preclinical research Preclinical research that can't be replicated is funded to the tune of about $28 billion in the US annually. |
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. |
