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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. |
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 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 April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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? |
Chemistry World September 6, 2013 Mark Peplow |
Misconduct: on the blog and in the open In August, the popular blogs ChemBark and Chemistry Blog made a series of posts about research misconduct relating to alleged data manipulation in three papers. But are blogs the right forum to expose these cases? |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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 April 28, 2010 Leila Sattary |
Publishing pressure eroding research integrity New research suggests that the increasing use of bibliometric parameters to evaluate academic success could be compromising research objectivity and integrity. |
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. |
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 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 July 14, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Science Europe proposes 'diamond engagement' open access plan An association of European funding organizations -- Science Europe -- has proposed improving open access for European research by encouraging researchers to share their work via publicly funded digital data repositories. |
Chemistry World November 18, 2013 Philip Ball |
Novelty hits top the charts Chemistry scores highly as an interdisciplinary subject on the basis of how often papers within the discipline cite ones from outside -- it is second only to biology, comparable to medical research, and better than, say, physics or earth sciences. |
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. |
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. |
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 May 30, 2014 Hepeng Jia |
China plans 'green' open access future Thousands of Chinese papers published in top journals will have to freely accessible within a year of publication. |
Information Today April 16, 2007 |
BioMed Central to Provide PhysMath Platform BioMed Central announced three journals to be launched by PhysMath Central, an open access publishing platform for the fields of physics, mathematics, and computer science. |
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 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. |
D-Lib February 2006 Titia van der Werf-Davelaar |
Facilitating Scholarly Communication in African Studies A look at the aspects of the transformation in academic publishing, looking at it from the perspective of the Africanist community in the Netherlands. |
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. |
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 February 11, 2013 |
Summon to Index French Open Access Works Serials Solutions announced that Le Cleo, le centre pour l'edition electronique ouverte (The Center for Open Electronic Publishing) is working with the company to have its scientific research content indexed in the Summon service. |
D-Lib April 2009 Cerda, Nieto & Campos |
What's Wrong with Citation Counts? Citation analysis needs an in-depth transformation. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2014 Knoth et al. |
Guest Editorial A significant proportion of the new approaches presented in this issue address a wide range of problems in extracting structured information, and even detailed semantics, from research papers. |
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. |
Information Today December 8, 2011 |
EBSCO Discovery Service Offers New Open Access Humanities and Social Science Content The complementary platforms represent a complete electronic publishing system dedicated to promoting research and open access publishing of tens of thousands of scientific papers. |
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 March 2004 Dick Kaser |
Quid Pro Quo The British House of Commons is scheduled to hold its first hearings on the publication of scientific research. It will consider whether the way research is currently published and distributed limits access, whether the government should support open access journals, and related policy issues |
Information Today March 2001 Paula J. Hane |
bepress.com Introduces Innovative Scholarly Publishing Model A new electronic publishing venture has launched that is taking on the scholarly publishing establishment. bepress.com (The Berkeley Electronic Press) was started by three University of California-Berkeley professors and a programmer from the Inktomi team... |
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 March 2, 2012 Rebecca Trager |
Anti-open access bill suffers sudden death Legislation in the US Congress that would have stopped funding agencies stipulating that research they fund with taxpayer dollars be made publicly available has collapsed. The dramatic development could signal a pivotal shift in scientific publishing. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2014 Laurence Lannom |
Editorial The changes in both scientific journal and data publication, too slow for some, too fast for others, continues to accelerate. |
Bio-IT World February 10, 2003 Kevin Davies |
Library Science Can the obscene costs of subscriptions to specialty journals be justified? |
Information Today July 26, 2004 Richard Poynder |
British Politicians Call on U.K. Government to Support Open Access Following 7 months of deliberation, the U.K. House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee has concluded that the current model for scientific publishing is unsatisfactory. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2012 Knoth et al. |
Special Issue on Mining Scientific Publications Digital libraries that store scientific publications are becoming increasingly important in research. They are used not only for traditional tasks such as finding and storing research outputs, but also as sources for discovering new research trends. |
Information Today September 3, 2001 Barbara Quint |
BioMed Central Launches 12 New Author-Initiated Research E-Journals In a major new publishing initiative, BioMed Central has expanded its role in pioneering alternatives for scholarly publishing on the Web... |
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. |
Information Today February 7, 2011 |
Wiley Launches New Program of Open Access Journals The first journals will launch shortly, publishing primary peer-reviewed research in a range of broad-based subject disciplines in the life and biomedical sciences. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Arthur Sale |
A Challenge for the Library Acquisition Budget Libraries have traditionally supported researchers as readers, but not as authors. It is desirable for the future of libraries, and for the future of research in their institutions, that libraries become engaged in this crucial step in the research process. |