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How can open science help achieve sustainability?

Author: Nicola Jones and Nick Campbell A focused, strategic and global approach to addressing the causes of climate change could pull us back from the precipice upon which we stand. But what does this have to do with research publishing? Of course publishers are part of a global network that reviews, improves, disseminates and ensures […]

Transformative Journals: an initial assessment

Author: Robert Kiley cOAlition S endorses several strategies to encourage subscription publishers to transition to full and immediate Open Access (OA). These approaches are referred to as “Transformative Arrangements” and include Transformative Agreements, Transformative Model Agreements and Transformative Journals. A Transformative Journal (TJ) is a subscription/hybrid journal that is actively committed to transitioning to a […]

Open Science Helps Move Your Research Forward

Author: Chockaday You find the ideal article online, but the specific methodologies are unclear. Following hours of laborious searching you find a defined outline of the methods, costing you valuable research time. This is just one of many practical difficulties presented by a lack of Openness in scientific publishing, and consequently has opened the door […]

Can Twitter data help in spotting problems early with publications? What retracted COVID-19 papers can teach us about science in the public sphere

Author: Lutz Bornmann, Robin Haunschild The COVID-19 pandemic has brought science into mainstream public and political debates in novel ways, notably through the widespread use of social media to share and discuss new findings. In this post, Robin Haunschild and Lutz Bornmann discuss their recent findings on how retracted papers were talked about on the […]

Digital technologies will define the future of Publishing

Author: Sithara Chandran The scholarly publishing industry has undergone significant changes over the last few decades, and with the pandemic outbreak, it became significant for the scholarly communication sector to understand and respond quickly to the new normal. Technology has played an essential role in refining the research and publication landscape. Over the years, digitization […]

Global Specifications for Accessible Publishing

Author: Viswanathan Chandrasekharan The digital transformation of the scholarly publishing industry has been underway for more than a decade. As of 2018, 42,500 peer-reviewed journals were producing 3 million articles per year in multiple languages. The vast majority of these articles are now accessed online or in PDF format. Concomitantly, there has been an increase […]

New UKRI policy is a ‘significant driver’ towards open access research

Author: Liz Bal The UKRI open access policy is to be welcomed as a significant driver in the delivery of open access (OA) research in the UK, which will, in turn, benefit the wider community. A significant step forward, this policy means that all published outputs from UKRI-funded research will be open access – freely […]

Guest Post — One Publisher to Rule Them All? Consolidation Trends in the Scholarly Communications and Research Sectors

Author: Jon Treadway and Sarah Greaves The story of mergers and acquisitions in scholarly communications is one dominated in the last 10 to 15 years by a series of eye-catching vertical acquisitions by publishers, content aggregators, and database providers which have expanded their services. These mergers have blurred traditional roles and reflect a strategy of […]

How to end the hegemony of English in scientific research

Author: Juan Miguel Hernández Bonilla 95% of all articles published in scientific journals in 2020 were written in English, and only 1% in Spanish or Portuguese. These figures were disclosed by Ángel Badillo, senior analyst on Spanish Language and Culture at the Spanish think tank Real Instituto Elcano, during the presentation of the preliminary conclusions […]