Sharing health research data – the role of funders in improving the impact
Authors : Robert F. Terry, Katherine Littler, Piero L. Olliaro Recent public health emergencies with outbreaks of influenza, Ebola and Zika revealed that the me...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Evaluating research and researchers by the journal impact factor: is it better than coin flipping?
Authors : Ricardo Brito, Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro The journal impact factor (JIF) is the average of the number of citations of the papers published in a journal...
OpenAPC: a contribution to a transparent and reproducible monitoring of fee-based open access publishing across institutions and nations
Authors : Dirk Pieper, Christoph Broschinski The OpenAPC initiative releases data sets on fees paid for open access (OA) journal articles by universities, funde...
Predatory Open Access Journals Publishing: What, Why and How?
Author : Shamprasad M. Pujar The Internet has transformed scholarly publishing and made the availability of online resources possible, both in subscription and ...
La tension entre la pratique de recherche et l’intégrité scientifique : l’exemple de l’activité bibliographique
Auteurs/Authors : Sophie Kennel, Elsa Poupardin L’activité bibliographique des chercheurs va de la constitution d’une culture savante à l’enrichissement de la c...
A guideline for reporting experimental protocols in life sciences
Authors : Olga Giraldo, Alexander Garcia, Oscar Corcho Experimental protocols are key when planning, performing and publishing research in many disciplines, es...
Leveraging Elsevier’s Creative Commons License Requirement to Undermine Embargo
Author : Josh Bolick In the last round of author-sharing policy revisions, Elsevier created a labyrinthine title-by-title embargo structure requiring embargoes ...