APS Journals and CERN Expand Open Access Initiative
The American Physical Society (APS) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have signed an agreement that will see high energy physics articles in Physical Review…
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Karl Deisseroth Takes the 2017 Else Kröner Fresenius Prize
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Prof. Karl Deisseroth, of Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University, is the recent winner of the Else Kröner Fresenius…
Strategic Partnership With Clarivate Analytics Set To Boost Russian Research
Recently, the Russian Ministry of Education and Science has entered into a multi-year agreement with Clarivate Analytics. This will result in the number of scientific research…
Citation Metrics and its Impact on Society
Scientists know that their research carries great value for society. However, the impact is not only a reflection of the nature of the discovery itself; but rather, research makes…
Harvard Medical School – Research Misconduct Leads to $10 Million Settlement
In 2014, the American Heart Association, the parent company of Circulation, retracted a cardiology research paper published in its journal in 2012 entitled “Cardiomyogenesis in the…
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…
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…