International Open Access Week 2018
The International Open Access Week will be celebrated this year from Oct. 22 to 28. Open access is the free and immediate availability of peer-reviewed research articles published…
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APC-Based Publishing: Is It Worth the Price?
The move towards open access (OA) has been embraced by a number of journals. However, one issue that arises when discussing OA is the fact that some journals do not charge article…
Plan S: Will Subscription-based Journals Get Rapidly Outdated?
The internet has revolutionized our world, and scientific publishing is no exception. To realize the dream of placing the world’s knowledge at anyone’s fingertips, the movement to…
Researchers Boycott New Nature Journal on Machine Learning
Artificial intelligence or machine learning is where machines are programmed to simulate human traits such as problem-solving and learning. Machine learning researchers…
European Universities and Publishers Caught in Open Access Battle
The focus is on the ongoing efforts by the academic community to ensure mandatory open access for scientific journals. Researchers and publishers have been under controversy…
Can Open Science Fight the Fake News Epidemic?
You’ve probably become a victim of fake news at some point in time. For instance, in the final three months of the U.S. presidential campaign, Facebook generated more engagement …
The Future of Open Access Publishing: An Interview With ScholarlyHub
In the current academic publishing environment, a number of scholarly social networks happen to be in the news mainly for copyright infringement allegations. Such academic social…
Open Access Repositories: Self-Archiving Your Publications
In the first and the second part of the open access (OA) infographic series, we discussed popular open access journals across different disciplines and shared eye-opening…
Publisher Refrains from Charging Extra for Archived Papers
The business of academic publishing is controversially inaccessible to its target audience; the academic community. Specifically, Elsevier and Taylor & Francis have been on the…
Open Access Policies and Funding Agency Mandates
In the first infographic of the open access (OA) series, we shared the names of popular OA journals across different disciplines. However, the OA movement has more dimensions to…
Data Fabrication & Reproducibility: How Triangulation Offers Novel Solutions
Reproducibility has been a standard of good scientific research for many decades. The reason for striving to design a study that can be repeated and produce the same results is…
Elsevier and the Finnish Consortium Collaborate on the Open Access Agreement
Elsevier has been having disputes with several universities across the globe, such as Germany, South Korea and now Finland. Recently, Elsevier and South Korean universities entered…