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Blogs selected for Week January 13 to January 19, 2020

1. Let Authors Choose How to Pay for Peer Review and Publication The United States Office for Science Technology and Policy (OSTP) is rumoured to be gearing up to release an Open Access (OA) policy, and like cOAlition S before it, both the funders involved and the researchers affected will need to consider different approaches […]

Blogs selected for Week January 7 to January 12, 2020

1. Who Is Competing to Own Researcher Identity? The structural transition wrought by the internet continues to transform the journal-centric model of scholarly publishing into a researcher-centric model of scholarly communication. Success requires engagement with researcher identity, which is a struggle even for most of the largest publishing houses. Who is competing to own researcher […]

Blogs selected for Week December 30, 2019 to January 6, 2020

1. 5 Things We Learned About Peer Review in 2019 For something so fundamental to the practice of science, it’s perplexing that it took so long for serious research into editorial peer review to get off the ground. The earliest experimental study was published in 1977, and there still aren’t many of them. The data […]

Blogs selected for Week December 16 to December 22, 2019

1. Guest Post: Interesting Versus True? Measuring Transparency and Reproducibility of Biomedical Articles Much time has been spent thinking about honing the results published in scientific papers toward the interesting. Studies with short titles get more newspapers interested; studies about coffee or wine are the superstars of Twitter. But in reality, most science is not […]

Blogs selected for Week December 9 to December 15, 2019

1. Academic affiliation should not be a requirement to publish This post in The times Higher Education Blog, Paul Ostwald, argues that this strict rule discourages article submissions from a variety of authors, including displaced scholars. One of the most commonly required qualifications to publish in a scholarly journal is an academic affiliation. There is […]