Phil Davis, Author at The Scholarly Kitchen

Publisher Rights, Author Perceptions

Journal authors have more rights than they. Why is this disjoint dangerous and what can publishers do?

Los Alamos researchers create a usage map of science. Why does it look so different than a citation map?

Would an Open Access publisher accept a nonsensical paper if the author were willing to pay?

What do authors say when they are caught duplicating text and figures from another paper? More than you’d imagine!

Controversial journal releases next issue, signals further editorial changes

The debate over Open Access is not about science or economics but about core values and the language that embodies them.

Venerable open-access medical journal reinstitutes subscription model. But can it offer enough content to lure customers back?

Free scientific articles improve scholarship in developing countries. Subscription journals largely responsible.

A new study suggests that the venerated journal impact factor (JIF) may not provide a consensus view of “scientific impact.”

Indexing of proceedings papers, errors in conversion, draw ire from bibliometrics community. Some question its effect on journal Impact Factors.

Publisher asks for submission stop while searching for new editor-in-chief.

Should scientists receive only partial credit for coauthored papers?

The vast majority of freely-available biomedical articles were published by societies using traditional subscription models, a new study reports.

Are the humanists trying too hard to be like scientists?

The “Big Switch” from desktop to cloud computing has implications for how we define intellect and culture. The medium is still the message.