All journals articles – Page 4
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NewsOpen access Plan S advocates respond to critics
Hybrid open access model used by many scientific societies not ruled out in new guidance
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NewsWellcome Trust to introduce stricter open access rules
From 2020, Trust will no longer support hybrid publication models or six month embargoes
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NewsElsevier and American Chemical Society escalate legal fight with academic networking site
Publishers claim that ResearchGate has not done enough to tackle hosting of copyrighted material
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NewsPeer review investigation warns of growing ‘reviewer fatigue’
Greater recognition of the vital work referees play might help to reverse the trend
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NewsBlueprint outlined to add in ‘fail-safes’ for science publishing
Raft of measures suggested by prominent critics of science’s reproducibility problems
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NewsIndia’s early efforts to tackle scientific fraud fail to impress
Attempts to crackdown on plagiarism and predatory publishing don’t go far enough, scientists say
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NewsEuropean funders announce ambitious open access target
11 funding bodies promise to ban grantees from publishing in pay-walled journals by 2020
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NewsTop researchers opt out of double-blind peer review
Academics from less prestigious universities and Asian countries prefer anonymity, analysis of submissions to Nature journals reveals
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News5000 German scientists have published in predatory journals
Exposé discovers academics from all walks of life have had work in suspect publications
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News35,000 papers in the biomedical literature might need retracting
Analysis of sample of journals suggests 0.4% of papers may have problematic images
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NewsWhat drives scientists to publish their work before peer review?
Study reveals that preprints are a force to be reckoned with but fears of being scooped linger on
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NewsPutting a price on Europe’s spending on scientific journals
Analysis comes as consortia of institutes revolt over price increases and open access across the continent
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NewsBlockchain to help scholarly publishing fight fraud
Platform can time-stamp data to authenticate research
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NewsA picture speaks a thousand words in new scientific journal
Illustrations will explain the latest research in an accessible way
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NewsElsevier declines to cut off German universities that cancelled journal subs
Efforts to reach a deal between the publishing giant and 200 institutions protesting prices continue after January deadline passes
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OpinionAcademic versus predator
Researchers must halt the rise of predatory journals by cutting off their supply of papers
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NewsMost scientific editors still come from US or UK
Lack of international representation on scientific journals’ editorial boards has persisted since 1985
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NewsResearch papers are becoming less readable
Call for journals to check the clarity of texts before they are published