A New Day for Open Access
This is a follow-up post to our feature article on the Gates Foundation accelerating open access
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been a major funder of academic…
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The Elsevier Impasse
This is a follow-up post to our feature article on the boycott of Elsevier journals by German Institutions.
A German consortium, Projekt DEAL, had entered into negotiations…
Can Artificial Intelligence Fix Peer Review?
Artificial intelligence (AI) simply means a computer program that can mimic functions of the human brain, such as solving math problems. We use these programs every day to perform…
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub: A Bold Initiative to Cure Every Disease
The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub is built on a radical idea of curing every disease in our children’s lifetime. In order to do this, the Biohub has partnered with three leading research…
ASAPBio: A Preprint Archive for Biology
Preprint archives allow the submission of scholarly articles before they have been subject to peer review. These archives are open access repositories, i.e, submissions can obtain…
Wiley Content Sharing Pilot Brings Science to the Public
Wiley is a publishing company with a global reach and is on a mission to support research, education, and professional practice with learning and knowledge dissemination tools such…
Overleaf: Improving the Way We Write
Overleaf is an online platform powered by LaTeX. It is free and is designed with collaborative publishing and writing in mind. The service boasts of 600,000 users from 180…
China Rewards Scientists for Achievement and Innovation
The Chinese government hosts an annual science and innovation awards ceremony. This year, the ceremony was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The ceremony honors…
Elsevier Upgrades With Plum Analytics and Quertle
Traditional ways of assessing the usefulness of published work relies on citation counts and impact factors. Plum Analytics was founded to expand the way we assess research impact.…
Kudos for Your Research
Kudos is an online platform focused on helping you make your research more accessible to the public. Kudos lets you track the impact of your efforts on how often your paper is…
Trexit: Immigration Ban Stifles Science & Research
President Donald Trump recently issued an executive order concerning immigration and refugees. For the next 90 days, citizens of Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen will…
Max Planck and Taylor and Francis Agreement Removes Open Access Barrier
A new agreement between the Max Planck Digital Library and the Taylor and Francis Group is set to have a significant impact on the open access landscape. Research emanating from…