Scientific and technological innovation is key to ensure sustainable development and progress of the society and to address global challenges such as climate change, epidemics, and income inequality. Naturally, there is an increasing demand for Read More
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Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in 2015 and has been refreshed for Open Access Week 2017. The age of the Internet gave momentum to the open access movement as did the increasing Read More
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in 2016 and has been refreshed for Open Access Week 2017. In recent years, open access publishing has steadily gained momentum. Most journals and publishers today have open access Read More
The face of research and publication is changing globally. Due to the intense competition in academia, there is immense pressure on scientists to publish at a fast pace. On the contrary, the journal publication process Read More
Open Access Week (also known as OA Week) is a global event organized annually by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) with the intention of making research more open and improve the visibility Read More
[This post has been reproduced with permission from Tanya Golash-Boza. It was originally published on her blog.] When I submit an article to a top journal, often, the best possible outcome I can hope for Read More
Minimally Invasive Surgical Oncology (MISO), an open-access journal, is making an unusual offer to the authors publishing in the journal. The journal’s site states: “For each accepted original or review article, Minimally Invasive Surgical Read More
China’s unprecedented economic, scientific, and technological growth in the recent years has made the entire world sit up and take notice. Today it is deemed to be an emerging superpower that is likely to Read More
Publishing giants Elsevier and American Chemical Society (ACS) have filed a lawsuit against ResearchGate, a popular for-profit academic networking site for unlicensed paper sharing. ResearchGate has around 100 million publications of which more than 7 million copyrighted Read More
Ever since I started my PhD (and even before) I’ve been told about the importance of using social media for communicating about my research. But, just like every other PhD student and early career Read More