Accelerating Scientific Publication in Biology
« Scientific publications enable results and ideas to be transmitted throughout the scientific community. The number and type of journal publications also have ...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
From Peer-Reviewed to Peer-Reproduced in Scholarly Publishing: The Complementary Roles of Data Models and Workflows in Bioinformatics
Motivation Reproducing the results from a scientific paper can be challenging due to the absence of data and the computational tools required for their analysis...
Data journals: A survey
Data occupy a key role in our information society. However, although the amount of published data continues to grow and terms such as data deluge and big data t...
The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era
« The consolidation of the scientific publishing industry has been the topic of much debate within and outside the scientific community, especially in relation ...
Evolution or revolution? Publishers’ perceptions of future directions in research communications and the publisher role
« This report presents a snapshot of the views of a wide range of publishers, covering their perceptions of future directions in research communications, schola...
Have the “mega-journals” reached the limits to growth?
« A “mega-journal” is a new type of scientific journal that publishes freely accessible articles, which have been peer reviewed for scientific trustworthiness, ...
Disrupting the subscription journals’ business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access
« This paper makes the strong, fact-based case for a large-scale transformation of the current corpus of scientific subscription journals to an open access busi...