Predicting the Future of Research
Publications, by their very nature, represent the end of a cycle of research. A set of scientists pose a research question, do some experiments, and arrive at an answer to their…
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Gates Foundation Accelerating Open Access
Traditionally, academic research frequently existed behind a paywall. This meant that in order to access journal articles, a researcher would have to pay to rent or download an…
The PubPub Is Open! Collaborative Publishing for All
PubPub is an open collaborative publishing tool devised by three Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate students: Travis Rich, Thariq Shihipar, and David Moinina…
Center for Open Science: Will It Disrupt Subscription-Based Publishing?
Academic publishing is still largely the domain of traditional academic journals. Academics understand the impact of their work when published in an established and prestigious…
The Global Scientific Village: Open Access Driving Collaborative Research
Scientists Working Together
Collaboration is undoubtedly a powerful tool. Bringing groups of scientists together with different skill sets makes it possible to answer complex…
Jeffrey Beall Pulls the Plug on Scholarly Open Access
In 2010, Jeffrey Beall, an academic librarian at the Auraria Library at University of Colorado, Denver (CU Denver), started curating a list of allegedly predatory…
China’s Stand against Academic Misconduct
The Chinese Association for Science and Technology (CAST)—one of China’s main research agencies—is taking drastic measures against scholars involved in academic misconduct. In an…
Transparent Peer Review a Success at Nature Journals
Across many scientific disciplines, the voluntary peer review system is strained, if not under outright siege1,2. This trend is of great concern because peer review is an essential…
Commons Open Repository Exchange: Open Access for Humanities Gets Ambitious
In January 2013, the Modern Language Association (MLA) introduced the MLA Commons. It was their first attempt to create an open access publishing forum within the organization.…
Open Library of Humanities: The Open Access Publisher for Humanities
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a non-profit open access publisher for humanities and social sciences and was developed initially in 2013 but officially launched in…
BioRxiv: A Pre-print Repository for Life Sciences
Traditionally, publishing a research study in life sciences involves a researcher to select a journal based on the field and outreach of the study and then submit their manuscript…
How Open Science is Helping Researchers Succeed
In academic research, researchers are meant to share information in an open manner in order to foster a more scholarly environment. Open science promotes collaborations and enables…