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Blogs selected for Week October 12 to October 18, 2020

1. New PLOS pricing test could signal end of scientists paying to publish free papers Author: Jeffrey Brainard PLOS, the nonprofit publisher that in 2003 pioneered the open-access business model of charging authors to publish scientific articles so they are immediately free to all, recently rolled out an alternative model that could herald the end […]

Blogs selected for Week October 5 to October 11, 2020

1. Guest post — Research support is an enterprise activity Author: Rebecca Bryant Understanding the growing necessity of enterprise-wide social interoperability in research support is of interest to publishers and platform providers. The best practices and advice synthesised from a number of interview informants in key research support areas on how to optimise social interoperability […]

Blogs selected for Week September 28 to October 4, 2020

1. Guest post — On clarifying the goals of a peer review taxonomy Author: Micah Altman, Philip N. Cohen Under pressure from both researchers and consumers of research, the practice of peer review is changing and new models are proliferating. Recently, the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), a major academic publishing […]

Blogs selected for Week September 21 to September 27, 2020

1. Achieving an equitable transition to open access Author: Christopher Kenneally Over the past two decades, the Research For Life (https://www.research4life.org/) initiative has sought to close the world’s knowledge gap. A global coalition of UN entities, NGOs, publishers, and universities, Research For Life now provides free or very low-cost access to thousands of research publications, […]

Blogs selected for Week September 14 to September 20, 2020

1. Guest post — What is wrong with preprint citations? Author: Sylvia Izzo Hunter, Igor Kleshchevich, Bruce Rosenblum The COVID-19 pandemic has produced an explosion of postings on preprint servers to meet the critical need for rapid dissemination of new biomedical and clinical research findings. Citations to the preprints, both in other preprints and in […]

Blogs selected for Week September 7 to September 13, 2020

1. Improving Peer Review through Better Data Author: Jennifer Goodrich The critical importance of peer review in scholarly and scientific publishing has only been heightened during the ‘rush to publish’ times brought about by COVID-19. Publishers who embrace strategic data management throughout the entire publishing lifecycle are easing the inherent stresses of publication workflows while […]

Blogs selected for Week August 31 to September 6, 2020

1. Articles Are the Fundamental Unit of Data Sharing Author: Tim Vines The FAIR principles are the community consensus answer to the ‘How’ question of data sharing, in that they describe best practice for how to share a particular dataset. Community consensus about anything is very welcome, but by themselves, the FAIR principles do not […]

Blogs selected for Week August 24 to August 30, 2020

1. Sustainable open access – What is next? Author: Ann Michael No business model is without limitations. While charging an APC is currently the most prevalent model used to sustain open Access (OA), its limitations are apparent. Depending on funding source, APCs can be a barrier to participation in OA for some authors and research […]

Blogs selected for Week August 17 to August 23, 2020

1. How to best approach COVID-19 research Author: Joshua Z. Rappoport The COVID-19 pandemic has led many people to directly engage with biomedical research studies—often for the first time in their lives—in the search for answers, understanding, and hope. The official guidelines provided by national, state, and local governments and health officials are critically important, […]

Blogs selected for Week August 10 to August 16, 2020

1. Unfunded research: Why academics do it and its unvalued contribution to the impact agenda Author: Rosalind Edwards Unfunded research takes time and money for already stretched academics. Yet it makes up over a quarter of all research carried out in British universities. Rosalind Edwards has spoken to academics about why they do unfunded research […]