Peer Review Survey 2009
Providing incentives to reviewers may be key to improving the peer review process.
The Tip of an Iceberg?
The Bentham experiment suggests that a poorly managed payment system may be the root of a larger problem emerging in academic publishing.
The Google Books Settlement: An Author’s Perspective
The Google Books Settlement has authors up in arms. I’m an author now, and I don’t know what they’re so upset about.
A View from Inside Amazon
Image via CrunchBase Part of the reason I wanted to self-publish my first mystery novel was to learn what modern self-publishing could accomplish on a shoestring budget. And I was particularly interested in Amazon‘s role in the world of booksellers. […]
Scientific Plagiarists Talk
What do authors say when they are caught duplicating text and figures from another paper? More than you’d imagine!
Legalizing Authorship
Improving transparency and accountability in biomedical publishing has turned authorship into a legal system.
The Invisible Author
Professionalism of science has given face to invisible technicians and collaborators and can partly explain the growth in authorship.