What was the academic publishing industry talking about in May 2016? We bring you a quick overview of some of the hot topics of discussion: data sharing, retractions, author recognition, the…
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- May 31, 2016
The Coalition for Responsible Publication Resources (CRPR) has received industry support and is one step closer to its mission to help preserve the integrity of the scholarly literature by sharing…
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- May 24, 2016
We bring you the top six myths about open access publishing and clarify for you these common areas of misunderstanding.
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- May 23, 2016
Researchers at the University of East Anglia discovered that ‘Pelagibacterales,’ a group of bacteria, have a significant role to play in maintaining the stability of the Earth’s atmosphere by…
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- May 18, 2016
A team of researchers from Cardiff University's Systems Immunity Research Institute found that T-cells – a type of white blood cell that defends humans from germs – get activated by some types of…
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- May 18, 2016
The interaction between the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields sometimes cause storms of explosive nature in the space near Earth. Understanding these interactions is important to help protect and…
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- May 13, 2016
Researchers from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology worked together to find out whether…
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- May 13, 2016
A team of engineers and marine biologists at the University of California, San Diego, led by Michael Frank, a Ph.D. candidate at the Jacobs School of Engineering, have designed a space exploration…
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- May 4, 2016
How any species inhabit Earth? The Indiana University researchers have answered this daunting question by collecting large datasets and basing their estimate using scaling laws. Read more about these…
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- May 4, 2016
The month of April saw recurring deliberations on interesting topics such as the evolution of peer review and its current state, the Sci-Hub initiative, career development of researchers, retraction…
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- April 30, 2016