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Chemistry World October 28, 2014 Hepeng Jia |
China's science academy launches new reform drive The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the nation's largest research body, is to reshuffle its 100 plus research institutes and change the way it rewards scientists. |
Chemistry World November 20, 2007 Hepeng Jia |
China Leaps up Research League Table China has overtaken Japan and the UK to become the world's second largest producer of science and technology (S&T) papers. |
Chemistry World April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2010 Changqing & Xiaodong |
Development Strategy for High-Quality Science and Technology Journals in China The Ministry of Science and Technology of China has planned and executed a development strategy for high-quality ST journals in order to advance the international competitive capacity of China's journals. |
Geotimes December 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Open Access Wide Open Open-access publishing has been heralded both as the savior of scientific literature and the death of publishing, but after less than a decade of the practice, its impact remains uncertain. |
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. |
Chemistry World March 7, 2012 Mico Tatalovic |
Croatia to slim down funding for science journals Science journals in Croatia face an uncertain future, with their main funder, the science ministry, announcing changes that will see only the best journals funded. |
Chemistry World August 23, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Half of all papers from 2011 are open access Open access publishing is growing far faster than previously thought, according to a new report prepared for the European commission. The sample included material from online databases, such as Scopus and PubMed, as well as the websites of publishers, institutions and researchers. |
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Kevin Davies |
Library Science Can the obscene costs of subscriptions to specialty journals be justified? |
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 January 31, 2013 Mico Tatalovic |
Citation cartel uncovered in Bosnian journals A Serbian study claims to have uncovered a 'citation cartel' in which two Bosnian journals listed by Web of Science and Journal Citation Reports are practicing an alarming level of misconduct with substantial involvement of large groups of authors from Serbia. |
Chemistry World June 19, 2008 Hepeng Jia |
Chemistry dominates list of China's most influential papers The Thomson Reuters Research Fronts Award recognized a total of 24 key journal articles - including seven chemistry papers and two from the material sciences - for their outstanding contribution to international R&D. |
Chemistry World January 15, 2010 Ned Stafford |
China: act on scientific fraud The Chinese government is being called on to do more to ensure the scientific integrity of its researchers after UK-based journal Acta Crystallographica Section E was forced to retract dozens of papers describing over 70 crystal structures found to have been fabricated by Chinese researchers. |
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 4, 2008 Hepeng Jia |
China Allows Academics to Own Patents China has revised its 'science and technology constitution' to allow scientists, institutes and universities to own patents arising from publicly-funded research in an effort to boost innovation. |
Chemistry World July 18, 2012 Maria Burke |
EU and UK bitten by the open access bug The European commission plans to make all the research findings funded by its 80 billion euro 2014 -- 2020 research program, Horizon 2020, accessible to all. |
Wired May 22, 2009 Guy Gugliotta |
The Genius Index: One Scientist's Crusade to Rewrite Reputation Rules The h-index is the number n of a researcher's papers that have been cited by other papers at least n times. High numbers = important science = important scientist. |
Information Today April 1, 2013 |
Springer and Chemical Abstracts Service Collaborate to Accelerate Chemistry Research This collaboration will increase the visibility of articles with experimental procedures published in 165 Springer chemistry journals from 1985 to the present. |
Chemistry World March 6, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
US health agencies expands open access policy The US Department of Health and Human Services has released a plan to expand how its agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, make research results freely available to scientists and the public. |
Information Today March 5, 2012 |
Wiley-Blackwell Adds 44 Titles to Journal Publishing Program in 2012 Brand new titles publishing on Wiley Online Library over the course of 2012 include Advanced Healthcare Materials, PsyCH Journal, Clinical Liver Disease, Food and Energy Security and the open access title Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease. |
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? |
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 January 2005 Richard Poynder |
Interview with Vitek Tracz: Essential for Science Convinced that all research must ultimately be freely available on the Web, the chairman of the London-based Current Science Group has become a powerful advocate for open access. |
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 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 September 14, 2006 Victoria Gill |
Online Access to Centuries of Pioneering Science The Royal Society today launched its complete journals archive in electronic form, making it freely available online for two months. |
Information Today September 13, 2012 |
Summon Discovery Service Expands Coverage of Open Access Scholarly Content Making these resources accessible through the library discovery interface broadens the number of highly relevant and appropriate results returned to researchers, while further making the library the "go-to" resource for credible content. |
Chemistry World June 19, 2012 |
Finch report backs open access for UK This would allow more people free access to research publications than ever before. However, the report warns that it could cost UK higher education as much as an extra 50 -- 60 million pounds a year. |
Chemistry World June 11, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Chemical sciences literature dominated by five publishing houses The percentage of chemistry papers published by the big five publishers is a significant outlier in the sciences. |
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 May 29, 2014 |
NPG and IECAS Plan New OA Journal Nature Publishing Group teamed up with the Institute of Electronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to launch an online open access journal beginning publication in March 2015. |
Geotimes August 2006 Carolyn Gramling |
Open Access Advancing One year after the NIH began to encourage researchers to make their findings freely available online, two U.S. senators introduced a new bill to Congress that proposes to both toughen and expand that open-access policy to include most federally funded research. |
Chemistry World February 2, 2010 Ned Stafford |
Russian science losing its edge Research in Russia, considered a scientific powerhouse during the cold war years, has faded in global importance since the break-up of the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s and now is lagging behind China and India. |
Chemistry World August 22, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Open Access for Chemistry The team that developed BioMed Central, an open access publishing website, has launched a chemistry version called Chemistry Central. |
Chemistry World October 2, 2006 Gill & Sanderson |
RSC to Launch Open Access Hybrid Model In a move to keep RSC publishing competitive, authors of RSC journal papers can now choose to have their research freely available the moment it is published -- for a fee. |
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 November 2000 Paula J. Hane |
Eugene Garfield Celebrates a Birthday and a Career On September 15, 2000, Dr. Eugene Garfield, ISI's founder and chairman emeritus, celebrated his 75th birthday at the company's headquarters in Philadelphia. We caught up with Garfield shortly after the party to discuss his legacy in information science and his thoughts on some recent trends... |
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... |
Information Today December 6, 2010 |
European Commission Debuts OpenAIRE It is expected that EU researchers, businesses, and citizens will have free and open access to EU-funded research papers. |
Information Today July 16, 2013 |
Springer Renews Its Commitment to Open Access Springer Science+Business Media announced that the influence of its open access journals has increased over the past year. |
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.... |
Information Today November 15, 2004 Richard Poynder |
U.K. Government Rejects Call to Support Open Access In a move that has angered members of an influential cross-party committee of British politicians, the U.K. government has rejected their call to make all publicly funded scientific research in Britain freely available on the Web. |
Information Today June 6, 2005 Miriam A. Drake |
A Cauldron Bubbles: PubChem and the American Chemical Society A freely accessible public database of chemical information, produced by a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), is at the center of a controversy over publicly subsidized data competing with commercial information providers. |
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 September 29, 2014 Derek Lowe |
Garbage in, garbage out Evaluating scientists is not easy. That's always been the case, and the shortcuts to doing it have been around a long time too. Counting papers and conferences is easy, but stupid. |
D-Lib April 2009 Cerda, Nieto & Campos |
What's Wrong with Citation Counts? Citation analysis needs an in-depth transformation. |
Information Today July 10, 2014 |
Europe PMC Gains New OA Research WHO (World Health Organization) announced an open access policy in January 2014 that now applies to all WHO research published in external books and journals. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2010 Stevan Harnad |
No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed Plans by universities and research funders to pay the costs of Open Access Publishing ("Gold OA") are premature. |
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 2009 |
Column: The crucible Philip Ball rakes through the findings of new research into the h-index and unearths some top tips for citation-hungry researchers |