Scientific Plagiarists Talk
What do authors say when they are caught duplicating text and figures from another paper? More than you’d imagine!
Since When Does Community Mean Everybody?
Community is a subset of the population. That subset may be self-selected or selected by some external criteria. But, by definition, communities are exclusive groups.
“Chaos, Solitons & Fractals” Resumes Publication
Controversial journal releases next issue, signals further editorial changes
Framing the Open Access Debate
The debate over Open Access is not about science or economics but about core values and the language that embodies them.
End of Free Access
Venerable open-access medical journal reinstitutes subscription model. But can it offer enough content to lure customers back?
Device Psychology
Are devices proliferating because we are seeking boundaries in our information age? The concept of “device psychology” suggests as much.
Open Access and Global Participation in Science
Free scientific articles improve scholarship in developing countries. Subscription journals largely responsible.
You’re Murdering a Newspaper!
Newspapers are running out of ideas. A litany of desperate measures don’t bode well for a dying industry.
ISI Draws Fire from Citation Researchers, Librarians
Indexing of proceedings papers, errors in conversion, draw ire from bibliometrics community. Some question its effect on journal Impact Factors.
New Literacy = New Books
On a day when Kindle 2.0 is expected the debut, the e-book is just one force reshaping the book of the future.
Chaos Continues in Math Journal
Publisher asks for submission stop while searching for new editor-in-chief.
The Morphing of Magazines
Serialized print publishing has a frequency problem eating at its core. Can journal publishers anticipate and adjust?
Publishers in the Social Economy
As publishers move out of the scarcity model, the social economy is where they might thrive. Can they?
Aggregation Agitation Continues
Does the settlement of the case between Gatehouse and the New York Times cast any light? Is the commercial model for news aggregation any closer to being settled?
Subscription Publishers Lead with Open Access
The vast majority of freely-available biomedical articles were published by societies using traditional subscription models, a new study reports.