Tag Archives for Scholarly Publishing
Is predatory scientific publishing “becoming an organized industry”?
Renewed media attention focuses especially on the problems for biomedicine. Read More
Ask The Chefs: Where Does Open Access Go From Here?
Open Access (OA) publishing is continuing to grow. Based on our most recent research and analysis, Delta Think estimates the OA market at approximately $470M in 2016, up from $390M in 2015. It is also no secret that OA volume … Continue reading
Libraries and Research: Five Key Themes for Sustainable Innovation in Strategy and Services
The New Media Consotrium (NMC) has released a new strategic brief on Digital Literacy in Higher Education. In this new report, it concludes that simply knowing how to use digital tools will not be enough for the future, and that … Continue reading
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell. By Stephen Buranyi In 2011, Claudio Aspesi, a senior investment analyst at Bernstein … Continue reading
Introducing ‘Rethinking Research’
The first in a series of essays on reproducibility of scientific research. How do we know which scientific results to trust? Research published in peer-reviewed academic journals has typically been considered the gold standard, having been subjected to in-depth scrutiny … Continue reading
The performance of Asian S&T journals in international citation indicators
This research explores the performance of Asian S&T journals based on the outcomes of various citation indicators. Indexed by Journal Citation Reports – Science Citation Index Expanded (JCR-SCIE), journals published in China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan between … 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
Text-mining tool seeks out ‘hidden data’ that scientists often post online in repositories while their related studies are going through peer review
A tool called Wide-Open can search out instances of locked online research data sets that are supposed to be public. Scientists often post ‘hidden’ data online in repositories while their related studies are going through peer review, intending to make … Continue reading
What I 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