Tag Archives for Publishing
Textbooks by NUS dons a global hit
A set of textbooks co-written by two National University of Singapore (NUS) marketing professors have been translated and adapted for use in universities all over the world. Read More
Distributed Publishers: Collaborating and Facilitating Publishing Across Campus
While the support for publishing open access journals in libraries is widespread as evidenced by the Library Publishing Coalition member roster and discussions about journals on library listservs and at conferences, not all libraries approach journal support by taking on … Continue reading
Social Media Shaping e-Publishing and Academia
The main aim of this book is to present the current state of the art in the field of e-publishing and social media. The book discusses a relatively new research topic that will be useful to researchers in the area … Continue reading
What Jeffrey Beall Learned From Predatory Publishers
Predatory publishers use the gold (author pays) open access model and aim to generate as much revenue as possible, often foregoing a proper peer review. The paper details how predatory publishers came to exist and shows how they were largely … Continue reading
Elsevier Awarded $15M in Lawsuit Against Pirate Sites
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has awarded STM publisher Elsevier $15 million in damages in a copyright infringement judgement against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis, online repositories that provide illegal access to millions of pirated … Continue reading
S’pore research: Key is access to info
How true is the claim that Singapore research is not publishable? The setback might be due to the limited access to information. Singapore is slowly opening up through portals such as data.gov.sg and the establishment of the Social Science Research … Continue reading
APA Refocuses Pilot Program Aimed At Curtailing Unauthorized Publication Of Journal Articles
The American Psychological Association announced on June 15th that it is targeting online piracy websites and not individual authors in its efforts to curtail the unauthorized sharing on the internet of articles published in the association’s journals. Read More
Now Available: “Academic Book of the Future Project Report” (Final Project Outputs)
The two documents linked below were recently released. They are the final two outputs of the Academic Book of the Future Project. Read More
How Much Citation Manipulation Is Acceptable?
[…] Last year, Retraction Watch covered the investigation of a soil scientist, Artemi Cerdà, who allegedly coerced authors to cite his own papers and journal, Land Degradation & Development (LDD), for which he served as Editor-in-Chief before being forced to resign. The collective … Continue reading