Open Access and Academic Freedom: Teasing Out Some Important Nuances
Author : Rick Anderson Discussion of the ways in which open access (OA) and academic freedom interact is fraught for a number of reasons, not least of which is ...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Openness in Big Data and Data Repositories. The Application of an Ethics Framework for Big Data in Healthand Research
Authors : Vicki Xafis, Markus K. Labude There is a growing expectation, or even requirement, for researchers to deposit a variety of research data in data repos...
A Billion Dollar Donation: The Cost, and Inefficiency of, Researchers’ Time Spent on Peer Review
Authors : Balazs Aczel, Barnabas Szaszi, Alex Holcombe Background The amount and value of researchers’ peer review work is critical for academia and publishing....
Self-help for learned journals: Scientific societies and the commerce of publishing in the 1950s
Author : Aileen Fyfe In the decades after the Second World War, learned society publishers struggled to cope with the expanding output of scientific research an...
Ants-Review: A Privacy-Oriented Protocol for Incentivized Open Peer Reviews on Ethereum
Authors : Bianca Trovò, Nazzareno Massari Peer review is a necessary and essential quality control step for scientific publications but lacks proper incentives...
Notebook articles: towards a transformative publishing experience in nonlinear science
Authors : Cristel Chandre, Jonathan Dubois Open Science, Reproducible Research, Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) data principles are long...
The Most Widely Disseminated COVID-19-Related Scientific Publications in Online Media: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Top 100 Articles with the Highest Altmetric Attention Scores
Authors : Ji Yoon Moon, Dae Young Yoon, Ji Hyun Hong, Kyoung Ja Lim, Sora Baek, Young Lan Seo, Eun Joo Yun The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a gl...