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…
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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…
Ulatus Launches Website Localization Services to help Global Businesses tap Local Markets
New York, USA: Ulatus, the sister company of Enago and one of the leading translation service providers worldwide, launched its Website Localization solution to help global…
Kudos Survey Shows Academic Peer to Peer Sharing on the Rise
Scientific publishers who rely on a subscription-based business model may be particularly interested in the results of a survey released recently by Kudos. By collaborating with…
Science Gets a Boost in U.S. Budget Deal
The U.S. government has been without a budget for 2017 since the beginning of this fiscal year (October 2016), however, on April 30, 2017, Congress finally reached a spending…
Shifting Population Affects Taiwanese Universities
With a shrinking youth population in Taiwan, universities there now have to identify strategies to preserve their academic environment. For decades, Taiwan has led a successful…
Wiley Publishing Takes Open Access a Step Further
Scientific publisher Wiley has recently launched Plant Direct and Health Science Reports, both of which are open access journals. Plant Direct is a community journal that…
Open Access Week 2017 Theme Revealed
When the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) officially launched Open Access Week in 2008, it envisioned a world where research and its implications were…
StudySwap: Craigslist for Researchers?
It can be quite difficult to organize a prepublication independent replication study to test if the effect that you detected is real. This is just one of the problems that…
The Scholix Initiative: Advancing Data-Literature Linking Technology
The aim of a scientific research article is to promote a viable thesis supported by quality data. Within the article, there is an inextricable link between the text and the data.…
March for Science Unites Scientists in 600 Cities Globally
Scientists and science advocates from all over the world met on April 22 to support research and evidence-based policymaking. For many of them, the March for Science—which was…