[…] topic has now been much discussed, and there are already significant tangents on research quality and many other issues surrounding peer review in the preprint context — all of which is well-trodden ground in the scholarly communications community, but with which […]
[…] COVID-19 pandemic has led to a surge in research activity. The number of preprints and articles published has increased enormously, peer review is happening faster than ever, and readership is at all-time highs. At the same time, public trust in science […]
[…] stated in the Hong Kong Principles released at the 6th World Conference on Research Integrity, “recognizing essential other tasks like peer review and mentoring”? In summary, the academic evaluation system should encourage researchers and research institutions to use high-quality, credible, open, […]
[…] for the American Chemical Society; Puja Telikicherla, Licensing and Subsidiary Rights Manager for the American Psychiatric Association; and Jasmine Wallace, Peer Review Manager for the American Society for Microbiology. Sharing their unique perspectives and paths, these panelists guided people hoping to […]
[…] provide targeted policies and interventions in support of, for example, editorial board and conference speaker diversity, addressing bias within the peer review process, and reporting on the sex and gender dimension of research, to ensure that we enable robust research in […]
[…] general, the use of specific approved repositories with particular data types conforming to specific structures and standards, and most strictly, peer–review of data, whatever that means. Guidelines and structures Those who follow trends in open data will be aware of […]
[…] to as ACM Open. The first is to transition ACM to an open access publisher for the entire portfolio of peer reviewed research articles we publish. Last year, this amounted to approximately 21,000 original research articles from over 40,000 authors, and […]
[…] learner’s convenience for no charge. It has been generated by practicing librarians who share their expertise with RDM with their peers. It addresses various aspects of RDM services in libraries such as how to effectively advocate for an RDM library […]
[…] a pared-down, yet stagnant, publication system would be acceptable, with journals providing the basic services required and nothing further ( peer review and a PDF). The entrepreneurs and startups will move elsewhere, and the technological innovation, new metrics and tools will […]
[…] rate for persons with disabilities of working-age in developed countries is as low as half the rate of their non-disabled peers. People in developing countries have it even tougher, with employment rates of just 10-20% for working age people with […]
[…] the scholarly communications industry. Additional session highlights include: New Directions in Open Access Business Models and Open Access Initiatives Disrupting Peer Review Advancements and New Directions in Scholarly Indexing Current Disruptors in Academic Research: Scientific Misconduct, Spam Journals, and Mega Journals […]
[…] and interpretation easier and less error prone, and in doing so, to eliminate difficulties around reproducibility for the purposes of peer review and publication. Gigantum offers a work environment, that is, a framework for developing and doing actual computation, rather than […]
[…] new kind of product that disrupts the usual chain of command. The articles in most Common Threads volumes were already peer–reviewed, had copyright assignments or permissions, and needed only minor proofreading. Much of the labor of our monographs workflows was […]
[…] also not considered compliant and while that may disappoint some, this is a recognition of the value of high quality peer review for the scientific record. (Of course, this doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t support preprints as an important mechanism for […]
[…] OA by providing comprehensive OA-option metrics to authors of primary research articles prior to submission, at submission, and during the peer–review process to maximize the uptake of the OA option. This promotion would be via online reports, seminars, and webinars. […]