The Journal of Brief Ideas Is Making Your Ideas Citable
In this age of information overload, there are several ideas that can be considered innovative or can lead to a new scientific development. Given the extent of information that is…
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ThinkLab: Startup Wanting to Fix Science
In 2014, fresh out of a successful trading algorithm startup, internet entrepreneur Jesse Spaulding began to think about the academic environment in which science is conducted from…
Is the Increase in Cost for Subscribing to Academic Journals Justified?
Academic journals are generally subscribed by individual subscribers (researchers, faculty, and industry professionals) as well as institutional subscribers (usually libraries).…
Types of Open Access Publications
The term Open Access encompasses a variety of research contributions intended for dissemination to the research community. These can be broadly classified into two types:
(1)…
Benefits of Open Access Publications
The open access movement offers a number of advantages to people cutting across all sections of society.
Access
Most journals and repositories do not impose access costs on the…
Does Open Access Conflict with Traditional Publishing?
The Open Access approach is on the whole complementary to traditional publishing. It utilizes both new technological developments and their wide proliferation to ease the…
How Is “CHORUS” Aiding Public Access to Federally Funded Research?
In February 2013, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a policy memorandum directing:
“Federal agencies with more than $100M in R&D…
Is Academic Research Getting Commoditized?
What Is Commoditization?
In the business world, commoditization starts to occur in the latter stages of a product's life cycle (the so-called "golden years"). Consumers no longer…
Self-Archiving: Is It Good for Academic Researchers?
Instant Availability
Researchers who are frustrated with delays in making their results available to the world as academic journals continue to work months ahead of published…
The Economics of Open Access Publishing
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…
Does Academic Publishing Need Net Neutrality?
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…
Are Research Libraries Failing in Their Mission?
A Changing Mission
Research libraries have long considered their primary user base to be the students and faculty of the institution that funds their existence. Over time,…