The unbearable emptiness of tweeting — About journal articles
Authors : Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Rodrigo Costas, Kimberley Isett, Julia Melkers, Diana Hicks Enthusiasm for using Twitter as a source of data in the social sc...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Prevalence and citation advantage of gold open access in the subject areas of the Scopus database
Authors : Pablo Dorta-González, Yolanda Santana-Jiménez The potential benefit of open access (OA) in relation to citation impact has been discussed in the liter...
We can shift academic culture through publishing choices
Author : Corina J Logan Researchers give papers for free (and often actually pay) to exploitative publishers who make millions off of our articles by locking th...
What do we know about grant peer review in the health sciences?
Authors : Susan Guthrie, Ioana Ghiga, Steven Wooding Background Peer review decisions award >95% of academic medical research funding, so it is crucial to un...
The new alchemy: Online networking, data sharing and research activity distribution tools for scientists
Authors : Antony J. Williams, Lou Peck, Sean Ekins There is an abundance of free online tools accessible to scientists and others that can be used for online ne...
The prehistory of biology preprints: a forgotten experiment from the 1960s
Author : Matthew Cobb In 1961, the NIH began to circulate biological preprints in a forgotten experiment called the Information Exchange Groups (IEGs). This sys...
Future Challenges and Opportunities in Academic Publishing
Author : Kyle Siler Digitization and the rise of Open Access publishing is an important recent development in academic communication. The current publishing sys...