BMC Research Notes is a journal that publishes academic research, however, what sets this BioMed Central journal apart from other publishers is the fact that this journal focuses on data that would not traditionally be accepted by a…

This is a follow-up post to our feature article on the boycott of Elsevier journals by German Institutions.   A German consortium, Projekt DEAL, had entered into negotiations with Elsevier to secure access to its academic journals on…

Preprint archives allow the submission of scholarly articles before they have been subject to peer review. These archives are open access repositories, i.e, submissions can obtain better visibility compared to if they were behind the…

There are multiple cases of article retractions due to duplicated or manipulated article images which have occurred recently in Life Sciences. These described cases involved researchers from China and Malaysia. One case concerned a research…

Scholarly Open Access, a website known for listing "potential, possible or probable predatory scholarly open access publishers" which also had a wide audience, has now been devoid of content since January 15, 2017. No particular reasons…