More German Universities Cancel Elsevier Contracts
Lately, there has been some dissatisfaction with major academic publishers. This has led to boycotts and subscription cancellations. At the heart of the matter is a push by…
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ASM and Overleaf Release New Author Template
Overleaf is a cloud-based tool that helps authors to quickly and easily prepare manuscripts and also collaborate and submit their final papers to partner journals. The American…
Elsevier Expands into Institutional Repositories: Acquires Bepress
Academic publishing giant, Elsevier, has acquired bepress. Bepress helps organizations showcase their academic research. It makes it possible to collect, organize, and display the…
What Is Really Driving the Preprint Trend? 4 Key Factors in Its Success
Academic publishing has long relied upon a simple approach. Write the manuscript, ask a few colleagues for comments on it, and then submit it to a journal for peer review.…
Latin America University Rankings: Which University Topped the List?
Times of Higher Education (THE) recently announced Latin America world university rankings. The data was collected from institutions and Scopus to assess the institution’s…
Does Journal Indexing and DRJI Scores Affect Your Research Career?
It is an achievement to publish scientific journal articles in indexed journals. It ensures that all subscribers to that journal will read and cite your article. With so many…
ALPSP Announces Finalists for Innovation in Publishing Awards
In an effort to highlight and promote innovations in the publishing industry, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) presents the ALPSP Awards…
Ingenta Joins the Meta AI Network: The Future of Search Engine
The research output has increased significantly over the years. According to one estimate, 2,000-4,000 papers are published every day in biomedicine field alone. The sheer volume…
Court Issues Restraining Order Against Professor in Harvard Dispute
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There is a bizarre case of alleged scientific misconduct happening at the Harvard Medical School. This Harvard dispute involves Prof.…
Microsoft, Google, & Baidu Join Forces on Open Academic Search
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Seattle was created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen with the mission of providing the latest findings in artificial…
ShareLaTeX and Overleaf Partnership to Benefit Authors
Writing manuscripts with complex equations or figures is tough. To make this simpler, the scientific community uses LaTex as one of the ways of writing manuscripts. Indeed, during…
May the Force Be With You—Predatory Journals Caught in Star Wars Sting
There have been some concerns that peer review is lacking in some science journals. Some of the predatory journals collect publishing fees without doing any peer review. Often,…