Keep in Mind Your Author Rights
Publishing can represent years of hard work and painstaking labor. As author, you possess numerous rights to your work before AND after its publication. It’s important to remember these rights because...
View ArticleDigital Publishing and the Semantic Web?
As information enthusiasts, whether you’re a librarian, researcher, or other information connoisseur, we’re always looking for new ways to access information. A lot of this digging for knowledge will...
View ArticleDissecting the EU’s Open Access resolution
Over the long Memorial Day weekend, member states of the European Union agreed on a resolution that all scientific research papers produced in EU would be Open Access by the year 2020. This is...
View ArticleElsevier: Patent Troll as well as Publisher?
It would seem that I am doomed to continue writing about Elsevier. It was announced yesterday that the academic publishing giant had been awarded the patent for “online peer review system and method”...
View ArticleFTC Files Complaint Against Publisher OMICS Group, Among Others
On August 25, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint against three related academic publishers, OMICS Group, iMedPub, and Conference Series, along with their president and director,...
View ArticleoaDOI: A New Tool for Discovering OA Content
oaDOI, a new tool for locating the Open Access version of an article (when available) announced at the end of last week that they were live, and initial reactions to the service have been very...
View ArticleThe Center for Open Science launches OSF|Preprints
I’ve written before about the Center for Open Science (COS), and they’ve been busy since first opening up submissions for SocArXiv back in August. In addition to the social sciences,they’ve also...
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CiteScore, a new journal metric from Elsevier
Before diving into CiteScore, it’s a good idea to briefly discuss the current journal metric it most closely resembles, the Impact Factor. Those of you familiar with the world of scholarly journals are...
View ArticleNew York Times Reports on “Fake Academia”
Over the winter break, the New York Times ran an article titled A Peek Inside the Strange World of Fake Academia in which the author, Kevin Carey, discusses a number of topics likely familiar to many...
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