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Journal publisher sues academic for pointing out its journals are out-of-line expensive. Journal publisher loses.
Earlier this week, the news broke that Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) is reviewing 2,500 journals and looking for cost savings where possible. The response has been an outcry from the pr…
"Public access to publicly funded research" has been one of the rallying calls of the global open access movement. Governments and public institutions
UPDATE 7 MARCH: Please see new blog post UPDATE 26 FEBRUARY : A flurry of interest has arisen around the revised PLOS…
In the week leading up the two-year anniversary of the SOPA blackout protests, EFF and others are talking about key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day, we'll take on a different
Good illo for how scholarly-journal publishing works.
"The [new peer review] checklist also consolidates several existing policies about data deposition and data presentation." "To further increase transparency, we now also encourage authors to provide, in tabular form, the data underlying the graphical representations used in figures. This is in addition to our well-established data-deposition policy for specific types of experiments and large datasets."
Journal Research Data Policies
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True of journals vs. articles as well!
One question that often comes up as we transition to open access publishing is how to assess new open access journals. How do we know that t...
Journals that consider an online poster posting to be "prior publication." At a guess, they're not keen on preprints either.