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Blogs selected for Week April 11 to April 17, 2016

1. Fundable, but not funded: How can research funders ensure ‘unlucky’ applications are handled more appropriately? Having a funding application rejected does not necessarily mean the research is unsupportable by funders – maybe just unlucky. There is a significant risk to wider society in the rejection of unlucky but otherwise sound applications: good ideas may […]

Blogs selected for Week April 4 to April 10, 2016

1. What impact evidence was used in REF 2014? Disciplinary differences in how researchers demonstrate and assess impact A new report produced by the Digital Science team explores the types of evidence used to demonstrate impact in REF2014 and pulls together guidance from leading professionals on good practice. In their post in The Impact Blog, […]

Blogs selected for Week March 28 to April 3, 2016

1. If You Can’t Beat ‘Em…Elsevier to Purchase Sci-Hub Exasperated over ineffectual attempts to shut down Sci-Hub, an illegal article sharing website, Elsevier has decided to purchase the service for an undisclosed sum. The purchase of another open access service by a corporate publishing giant has left some with the taste of bitter chocolate, notes […]

Blogs selected for Week March 21 to March 27, 2016

1. The Downside of Scale for Journal Publishers: Quality Control and Filtration Scale can be achieved by broadly outsourcing the editorial process. Does this lead to a loss in quality control, and is this acceptable? In his post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, David Crotty discusses the scale for journals in the current age of […]

Blogs selected for Week March 14 to March 20, 2016

1. Open access critical for exchange of research, Stanford professor argues Without access to journals via a university library or other institutional subscription, thousands of students and researchers are effectively excluded from the exchange of scientific ideas. Hence Sci-Hub, the Napster-like site that provides pirated journal papers free of charge, is now entangled in legal […]

Blogs selected for Week March 7 to March 13, 2016

1. Accounting for Impact? How the Impact Factor is shaping research and what this means for knowledge production. Why does the impact factor continue to play such a consequential role in academia? In their post in The Impact Blog, Alex Rushforth and Sarah de Rijcke look at how considerations of the metric enter in from […]

Blogs selected for Week February 29 to March 6, 2016

1. Open Access Reinterpreted ‘Open Access’ (not to be confused with ‘accessibility’) is more than the removal of the cost to the reader; Open Access means the removal of other restrictions, in a way that the content can be fully used the way we use content today, with both human and computational methods, without the […]

Blogs selected for Week February 22 to February 28, 2016

1. The Illicit Love Affair between Open Access and Traditional Publishing At the recent PSP conference there was a panel on the cost of complying with the many new open access mandates from funding bodies. The panel explored the cost of compliance and how to reduce those costs. The current regulatory regime is complicated and […]

Blogs selected for Week February 15 to February 21, 2016

1. Breaking the traditional mould of peer review: Why we need a more transparent process of research evaluation. Posted by Jon Tennant in The Impact Blog, this post takes a look at the transformations underway aimed at tackling the widespread dissatisfaction with the system of peer review. He provides further background on the platform ScienceOpen, […]

Blogs selected for Week February 8 to February 14, 2016

1. How to get published: making a good first impression Journal editors are busy people. The volume of scientific papers submitted is increasing and, for academic editors, the work that they do for journals needs to be juggled with the many other demands faced by the modern scientist or clinician. What does this mean when […]