Guides: Scholarly Communications Archive: News from Jul-Dec 2014

Scholarly Communications News from Jul-Dec 2014

Journals, “Journals” and Wannabes: Investigating The List
Cites & Insights Newsletter 2014/07
Anthropology Group Will Test a Faster, Digital Approach to Book Reviews
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/07/07
Facebook Is Good for Science
Chronicle of Higher Education Blog 2014/07/08
Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes ‘peer review ring’
Washington Post 2014/07/10
Journal Retracts 60 Articles After Discovering ‘Peer Review and Citation Ring’
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/07/10
Congress, Fretting Over Secrecy, May Miss Bigger Research Problems
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/07/14
Random Reflections on Getting Published
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/07/14
Confessions of a managing editor (or 6 reasons I’m returning your manuscript)
Elsevier Connect Blog 2014/07/23
U.S. Senator’s Academic Thesis Contains Evidence of Plagiarism
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/0723
The Value of 10 Minutes: Writing Advice for the Time-Less Academic
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/07/18
The Peer-Review Jerk Survival Guide
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/07/28
The Impact Factor and Its Discontents: Reading list on Controversies and Shortcomings of the Journal Impact Factor
London School of Economics and Political Science 2014/07/3
The Professor Is In: Is Writing a Book Review Ever Worth It?
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/08/04
In Their Own Words: A Field Guide to Accused Plagiarists’ Public Statements
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/08/05
Open-access Website Gets Tough
Nature 2014/08/06
Global Coalition of Access to Research, Science and Education Organizations calls on STM to Withdraw New Model Licenses
PLOS 2014/08/07
Humanizing Academic Citation
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/08/08
The Art and Science of Finding Your Voice
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/08/08
Let's Clarify Authorship on Scientific Papers
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/08/11
Top 5 Super-Specific Academic Journals
Academia Obscura Blog 2014/08/11
The Professor Is In: How to Write an Honest but Collegial Book Review
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/08/11
‘Wait, Your Footnotes Are in Cyberspace?’
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/08/18
Respected medical journal turns to dark side
Ottawa Citizen 2014/08/20
Anatomy of a Serial-Plagiarism Charge
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/08/21
Deans Love Books
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/08/21
STM’s new publishing licenses raise antitrust concerns amid wider efforts to pollute open access standards
London School of Economics and Political Science 2014/08/22
Save the Dissertation!
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/08/25
Open Access Journals and Forensic Publishing
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2014/09
A Creative Commons Guide to Sharing Your Science
My Science Work 2014/09/02
The Invisible Prevalence of Citizen Science in Global Research: Migratory Birds and Climate Change
PLoS One 2014/09/03
Why do some academic publishers think they should charge extra for more liberal licenses (CC BY)?
Dr. Paul Martin Eve Blog 2014/09/03
The opportunity cost of my #OpenScience was 36 hours + $690 (UPDATED)
The Bruna Lab (University of Florida) Blog 2014/09/04
On Writing: Sometimes Less Is More
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/09/05
Digital History Center Strives to Connect With the Public
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/09/08
Open for Business – Why In the Library with the Lead Pipe is Moving to CC-BY Licensing
In the Library with the Lead Pipe Blog 2014/09/10
5 Tips for Publishing Your First Academic Article
Student Pulse Journal Blog 2014/09/10
U. of Pittsburgh Won’t Make Faculty Sign Away Intellectual-Property Rights
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/09/12
Should Doctoral Researchers Blog?
Patter Blog 2014/09/15
Proof Over Promise: Moving Citation Metric Systems Beyond Journal Impact Towards a Career Impact Approach
London School of Economics and Political Science 2014/09/17
CERN and the American Physical Society announce partnership for open access
American Physical Society 2014/09/18
5 Tips for Improving Your Article’s Altmetric Score
Wiley Exchanges Blog 2014/09/18
On “Kardashians” in science and the general relationship between achievement and fame
Pascal's Premise Blog 2014/09/19
The Professor Is In: Should I Publish With a ‘Low-Rent’ Press?
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/09/22
Tools for evaluating scholarly journals
Scientific American Blog 2014/09/24
NIH Prodding Makes Data Sharing More Common, Survey Finds
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/09/26
Why Academics Stink at Writing
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/09/26
It's No Joke: Humor Rarely Welcome in Research Write-Ups
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/09/29
Scholarly Writing Hacks: 5 Lessons I Learned Writing Every Day in June
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/09/30
Team Science Is Tied to Growth in Grants With Multiple Recipients
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/09/30
Cost Effectiveness of Open Access Publications by Ted Bergstrom
Economic Inquiry 52.4 (2014) -- October 2014
The Role of Libraries in Open Access
Publisher's Communication Group October 2014
On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're the 'Wrong' Professor
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/10/02
An Open Letter to Journal Editors
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/10/06
Rise of the Rest: The Growing Impact of Non-Elite Journals
Arxiv 2014/10/08
U. of Illinois Chancellor Corrects ‘Serious Errors’ in 2006 Paper
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/10/10
Fictionalizing Your Scholarship
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/10/13
Should We Put Our Money Where our Citations Are?
Scientific American Blog 2014/10/14
Correcting the scientific record: An introduction to retractions
Scientific American Blog 2014/10/14
The Confidence Gap in Academic Writing
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/10/16
Making the world’s problem solvers 10% more efficient
Edium 2014/10/17
The Midwest Revealed: Not Always So Sunny
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/10/20
Ga. State’s Loss in ‘E-Reserves’ Case Might Actually Be a Win for Librarians
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/10/20
Scientists Protest Restrictions on Sharing Research in Canada
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/10/21
How to Make More Published Research True
PLoS Medicine 2014/10/21
The Right Metrics for Generation Open: A Guide to Getting Credit for Open Science
Impact Story 2014/10/24
Why One Professor Thinks Academics Should Write ‘BuzzFeed-Style Scholarship’
Chronicle of Higher Education 2013/10/27
Technology Group Promises Scientists Their Own Clouds (the Data Kind)
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/10/29
The Size of the Open Access Market
The Scholarly Kitchen 2014/10/29
Corporate interest is a problem for research into open-access publishing
The Conversation 2014/10/31
A Brief History of Academics Writing Seriously About Zombies
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/10/31
A Place for Citation Data
Research Information 2014/10-11
Online submission systems: Bane or boon?
Cabell's Directories 2014/11
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Growing Impact of Older Articles
Arxiv 2014/11/02
Science Research Needs an Overhaul
Scientific American 2014/11/03
Publishers address concerns on ‘total cost of ownership’ of e-resources
University College London 2014/11/03
New Rules for Human-Subject Research Are Delayed and Debated
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/11/03
How and why researchers share data (and why they don’t)
Wiley Exchanges Blog 2015/11/03
My Book Got Optioned. Here’s What Happened.
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/11/04
Negotiations between Elsevier and Dutch Universities break down: Time for change
Daniel Lakens Blog 2014/11/04
Overpricing Scholarship: An Exchange
New York Review of Books 2014/11/06
Book Review: Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future by Martin Eve
London School of Economics and Political Science 2014/11/07
Google Scholar pioneer on search engine’s future
Nature 2014/11/07
How to Win Citations and Rise Up the University Rankings
University World News 2014/11/07
This Is What Happens When No One Proofreads an Academic Paper
Slate, 2014/11/11
How to write a great rebuttal letter
Editage 2014/11/11
#AcWriMo, #DigiWriMo, #NaNoGenMo and November Writing Sprints
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/11/12
The Open Science Peer Review Oath
F1000 Research 2014/11/12
5 More Ways to Start Writing
PhD 2 Publishing blog 2014/11/12
Preserving scholarly information: LOCKSS, CLOCKKS, and portico
Scientific American Blog 2014/11/13
Science Journals Have Passed Their Expiration Date -- It's Time for the Publishing Platform
Wired Innovation Insights Blog 2014/11/13
The academic ‘further achievers’ who live to work
Times Higher Education 2014/11/13
Data Capture for the Real World
Science in the Open Blog 2014/11/14
The Meaning of Collections: Ownership, Access, and the Scholarly Ecosystem
Ithaka S&R 2014/11/16
The Habits of Highly Productive Writers
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/11/17
Additive, Substitutive, Subtractive
The Scholarly Kitchen Blog 2014/11/17
A Decade of Google Scholar
Max Kemman blog 2014/11/18
So Ya Wanna Finish That Thesis/Dissertation/Article/Paper/Chapter? Pt I
PhD2Published 2014/11/19
Chicago State U.’s Interim Provost Is Cleared of Plagiarism Charges
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/11/19
The Rights Stuff: Copyright, Scientific Debate, and Reuse
PLoS Blog 2014/11/19
Springer and universities take key step towards open access
Association of Universities in the Netherlands( VSNU) 2014/11/20
French Government Takes 172 Million Euros From Citizens To Pay Publisher For Access To Research Public Already Paid For Once
Tech Dirt 2014/11/20
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Open Access Policy
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2014/11/21
Gates Goes Open
Inside Higher Ed 2014/11/24
The best two books on doing a thesis
The Thesis Whisperer 2014/11/26
Is this peer reviewed? Predatory journals and the transparency of peer review.
Scientific American Information Culture Blog 2014/11/26
Fuelling Your Writing Process by Gillie Bolton
PhD2Published 2014/11/27
Is Nature’s “Free to View” a Magnanimous Gesture or a Cynical Ploy?
it is NOT junk -- blog by Michael Eisen 2014/12/01
Nature Makes All Articles Free to View
2014/12/02
Is Nature’s “free to view” program a step back for open access?
Scientific American Information Culture blog 2014/12/2
New Grub Street
Chronicle of Higher Education blog 2014/12/08
The 10 most popular academic papers of 2014
Times Higher Education 2014/12/09
What the Year's Most-Noticed Research Papers Tell Us About Ourselves
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/12/10
When the Media Get Science Research Wrong, University PR May Be the Culprit
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/12/10
The Revise and Resubmit Series, Part 1: Coping with Criticism
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/12/10
UAlberta opens access to published research in Canada - See more at: http://uofa.ualberta.ca/news-and-events/newsarticles/2014/december/ualberta-opens-access-to-published-research-in-canada#sthash.sQ7JGxkn.dpuf
University of Alberta 2014/12/12
The Trick to Being a Prolific Scholar
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/12/15
Exaggerated Claims — Has “Publish or Perish” Become “Publicize or Perish”?
Scholarly Kitchen 2014/12/15
Big-Data Scientists Face Ethical Challenges After Facebook Study
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/12/15
Romanian Prime Minister Gives Up Ph.D., 2 Years After Plagiarism Finding
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/12/16
Let Me Count the Ways: Top 20 PLOS ONE Articles Based on Article-Level Metrics for 2014
PLoS 2014/12/23
Our 2014 Predictions for Altmetrics: What we Nailed and What We Missed
Impact Story 2014/12/30

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