The suit accuses six major publishers of establishing a cartel through its international trade association, STM, and using the peer review process to "unlawfully divert billions of taxpayer dollars every year from science to the Publisher Defendants.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
Almost two years after it first started talking about the idea, Facebook finally announced the members of its Oversight Board, the “Supreme Court” that will—theoretically, at least—have the ability to overrule Facebook and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg about whether certain types of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-05-14 11:45:42 UTC ]
The giants of the scientific publishing industry have made huge profits for decades. Now they are under threatScientific publishing has long been a licence to print money. Scientists need journals in which to publish their research, so they will supply the articles without monetary reward. Other... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Academic houses Taylor & Francis and Cambridge University Press have joined a pilot project on using blockchain technology for peer review, announced by publisher Springer Nature and start-up Katalysis last month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Scholarly Kitchen looks at gender bias in scholarly publishing and peer review. And an IGI Global journal is newly indexed by Elsevier's Compendex. The post Researching Gender Bias in Peer Review; Indexing an Info Systems Journal appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Clarivate Analytics has bought Publons, the global platform for researchers to share recognition for peer review, for an undisclosed sum. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Science journal Nature and the stable of 17 Nature Research Journals are all to offer the system of peer review known as "double-blind" for article submissions from March, following a trial of the system with two of the journals. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Open sharing has been around forever, accelerating progress in diverse fields. Computing (e.g., Homebrew Computer Club), code (open source), and even academic publishing ("open access", which goes beyond peer review) are just a few that have multiplied their social impact thanks to this... Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
"I love Times Square." Those might not be the words you would expect to hear out of the mouth of a fashion magazine editor, but this kind of statement is typical of Eva Chen, the new editor–in–chief of Lucky Magazine. Since her arrival in June, now with two issues under her belt, she has been... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]