Clarivate Analytics Acquires Peer Review Network
Clarivate Analytics, known for its bibliometric tools like Web of Science, has acquired Publons. Publons is an online platform for researchers that allow peer reviewers to get…
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Policy Press Publisher Partners With Enago to Offer Manuscript Preparation Services
New York, USA: Policy Press announced today their partnership with Enago, a leading author service provider that specifically caters to the large section of the global research…
Don’t Be the Next Diego Gomez! Young Researcher Faces Prison Charges for Sharing Research
One of the reasons copyright laws exists is to prevent others from using a created work (and benefiting from it) without acknowledging its creators. Rightfully, some share of the…
Open Access Book Publishing Now Available for Humanities and Social Sciences Researchers
The open access–journal publishing trend has hit the world of academic book publishing. The traditional business model for monograph publishing is lagging behind the others in the…
BioRxiv Secures Funding from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
BioRxiv is modeled after arXiv, a preprint server for the physical sciences. BioRxiv has only been in existence for three years but it currently hosts more than 10,000 manuscripts…
Open Access Publishing Report Shows Positive Trends
Open access (OA) publishing means allowing access to published articles without a fee or costly subscriptions, a concept well received by researchers, scholars, and libraries, but…
Almetrics and PubFactory Team Up to Track Publication Data
The age-old adage for researchers: publish or perish might be true in a competitive academic track, but it does not foster a community of meaningful science. A scientist ought to…
Newly Launched Publons Academy Offers Peer Review Training
In just a few short years, Publons membership has reached more than 80,000, comprising of researchers, editors, and publishers, and by December 2016, that number rose to a solid…
Back to the Future: Peer Review in 2030
Nearly six months have passed since you submitted your manuscript for peer review. When it finally returns back to you, the editor informs you that the peer reviewers found your…
Peer Review Week 2017: Transparency in Review
Peer review is one of the core activities upon which scholarly communication relies. However, the peer review process is typically closed and, as such; peer reviewers rarely…
American and Korean Chemical Societies Launch New Prize
The American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Korean Chemical Society (KCS) have established a three-year partnership to honor outstanding Korean chemists. The chosen scientist will…
Figshare and Springer Nature Launch New Tool to Support Open Research
Figshare is an online repository for research data and allows data to be both discoverable and citable. Recently, Figshare has launched a new tool in collaboration with Springer…