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Report: “Scholarly Communication in Times of Crisis: The Response of the Scholarly Communication System to the COVID-19 Pandemic”
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|From the Research on Research Institute (RORI): Getting the right incentives and policies for open or free access publishing aligned across the many players of the scholarly communication ecosystem is difficult. To avoid too much of the burden or cost falling on one player in particular – publishers, service providers, funders or researchers – conversations […]
New Research: “Massive Study Reveals Editorial Bias and Nepotism in Biomedical Journals”
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|Update: Interview With Article Co-Authors (via The Scientist) From the Public Library of Science: Scientific journals are expected to consider research manuscripts dispassionately and without favor. But in a study publishing on November 23rd in the open access journal PLOS Biology, Alexandre Scanff, Florian Naudet and Clara Locher from the University of Rennes, and colleagues, […]
“Open Access Journals Must Be Preserved Forever” (A Project JASPER Update) (via PKP) PLOS Becomes First Wholly Open Access (OA) Publisher to Deliver Release 5 COUNTER-Compliant Usage Reporting (via PLOS) When it Comes To Health-Information, Search Engines Often Get It Wrong (via Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Germany) Wiley and CAUL Sign Three Year Transformational […]
The article linked below was recently published by PLOS One. Title How Faculty Define Quality, Prestige, and Impact Of Academic Journals Authors Esteban Morales University of British Columbia Erin C. McKiernan Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Meredith T. Niles University of Vermont Lesley Schimanski Simon Fraser University Juan Pablo Alperin Simon Fraser University Source PLoS […]
American Society of Civil Engineers, Annual Reviews, BioOne and the Geological Society Join Climate Change Knowledge Cooperative (via Kudos) FCC Receives $1.3B in New Emergency Connectivity Fund Applications (via FCC) Millions of Open Cultural Heritage Resources From Europeana Now Easily Accessible Through WorldCat (via OCLC) New Research From Springer Nature on “Gold” Open Access (via […]
Journal Article: “A Survey of Researchers’ Needs and Priorities for Data Sharing”
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|The article linked below was published today by Data Science Journal. Title A Survey of Researchers’ Needs and Priorities for Data Sharing Authors Iain Hrynaszkiewicz| Public Library of Science (PLOS) James Harney Public Library of Science (PLOS) Lauren Cadwallader Public Library of Science (PLOS) Source Data Science Journal, 20(1), p.31. DOI: 10.5334/dsj-2021-031 Abstract One of […]
News Roundup (October 13, 2021)
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|A Survey of Spanish Posters and Related Graphics at the National Archives (via NARA) Indiana University Press Chooses Project MUSE as its Journals Platform First PLOS Journal in 14 Years Launches: PLOS Global Public Health Publishes Inaugural Papers= National Library of France Finally Complete After a 10-Year-Long Renovation (via Arch Daily) The Impact of COVID […]
Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) Celebrates First Anniversary, Number of Publishers Supporting More Than Doubled During Year One
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|From a Blog Post by Ludo Waltman, Bianca Kramer, and David Shotton: When I4OA was launched one year ago, the initiative was supported by 40 publishers, including Hindawi, Royal Society, and SAGE, who are founding members of the initiative. Among the initial supporters of I4OA there were commercial publishers (e.g., F1000, Frontiers, Hindawi, MDPI, PeerJ, […]
Announcing a New PLOS Policy on Inclusion in Global Research (via Public Library of Science) Brooke L. Clement Appointed Director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum (via NARA) CLIR Invites Applications for Digitizing At-Risk Audio and Audiovisual Materials (via (Council on Library and Internet Resources) Partnership For Shared Book Collections Publishes September […]
From PREreview: The PREreview team is very excited to announce the publication of the Open Reviewer Toolkit, three guides to help with the unbiased composition and assessment of research manuscripts’ review. The guides are openly available for download on Zenodo under CC-BY 4.0 license. The first one is the Bias Reflection Guide, a tool meant […]