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Many academics think social media isn’t something they need. After all, we are judged on the quality of our work, not our Tweets, right? Most academics can benefit from using social media. In this article, I’d like to talk specifically…

A Decade of Exponential Growth According to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), at present, there are over 10,000 fully open access (OA) peer-reviewed scholarly journals from 135 countries, offering 1.7 million searchable…

Although publication of an academic paper, for which you have been slaving over for weeks, months, or even years, is a significant accomplishment, ensuring that your paper gets noticed by the broader community is much more difficult. Only…

COPE was established as a registered charity in the United Kingdom in October 2007, after a decade of growth from an informal gathering of concerned editors in 1997. It is funded exclusively from the subscription fees of its members,…

Retraction: A Sanction of Last Resort When an academic journal formally retracts an article, it is considered one of the most serious acts that can be taken against an author or team of authors. Such a sanction has the potential to…

Enago successfully exhibited at the 2015 CSE Annual Meeting to increase collaborations with international publishers, editors, and researchers  Philadelphia, PA: Enago was an exhibitor at the Annual Meeting of the Council of Science…

Contributing to the Academic Community Advocates argue that the contribution made by the peer review process to academic publishing is chronically undervalued. Leveraging the desire of experienced reviewers to give back to the academic…

What Is Net Neutrality? The foundation of the Internet was laid by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in the late 1960s, when a communications network was created between four local host computers. But since those days of the…

The Power of a Tweet When the online social networking service called Twitter was launched in March 2006, there was some skepticism about the value of a 140-character message called a tweet. Less than 10 years later, Twitter has 288…

Addressing Data Limitations Having access to large volumes of big data is usually considered to be a significant advancement in research. Yet, unless that data is coded and stored in a manner that facilitates extraction, the volume issue…