Journal editors propose detailed disclosure form for authors
An influential group of medical journal editors in October announced a new, more probing conflict-of-interest disclosure form that it hopes will become the industry standard. The effort comes in response to criticism that medical journals have failed to properly inform their readers about authors' financial relationships with industry.... Read More
Iowa Research Online in Smart Search
Iowa Research Online (IRO) preserves and provides open access to the scholarly and creative work of the University of Iowa. More than 1500 records for items found in the IRO are now available in Smart Search. Additional records will be added to Smart Search on a monthly basis. Read More
The First Annual PT Industry Survey
Publishing Trends (PT), a monthly newsletter featuring news and opinion on the changing world of book publishing, has released the results of its first industry survey online. In its first annual survey, PT has uncovered the secret aspirations of publishing people. Also, the survey inspired hundreds of respondents to write… Read More
STM Publishers Face Some Old, Some New Challenges, Especially the Bugaboo of “Free”
This article by Richard Lampert is a 30-year veteran of the STM publishing industry, CEO of The Lampert Consultancy, looks at some existing and new challenges facing the STM publishing industry. According to the article, the STM publishing industry faces unique challenges. To begin with, authors are scientists, engineers, and… Read More
Is open-access journal publishing a vanity publishing industry?
Open-access journal publishing has been criticised on a whole range of grounds as being unsustainable, unfair, or ineffective. Perhaps the starkest criticism is that open-access journals amount to a vanity publishing industry, and will exhibit a “race to the bottom” in which journals compete to lower editorial standards to capture… Read More
Open Access: Query About CogPrints (Central vs. Institutional Deposit)
This is a reply to a query (anonymized) about CogPrints, a central repository for the deposit of Open Access (OA) content. The topic is whether the locus of direct deposit should be central or institutional… Read More
ARL strategic plan focuses on OA
ARL influences the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy…. Read More
Transitions in Scholarly Communications
The scholarly communications landscape has been transformed over the past few years, in the UK and across the world. Technological change has brought th and continues to bring th profound changes in the roles that researchers, funders, research institutions, publishers, aggregators, libraries and other intermediaries play in disseminating and providing… Read More
Scientific fraud: ruminations on duplicity and its consequences
Over the past nearly 16 years, I have learned an awful lot about certain subjects that were never high on my hit parade before getting involved in the pro-life movement. But since wonders never cease, this process.... Read More
The open access revolution
As global health researchers, the process of accessing the findings of others is a crucial part of the work that we do. It allows us to review and criticize scientific knowledge, and to build on the work of others. You could say that scientific progress relies on the ability for… Read More
