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Scholarly Communications News from Jan-Jun 2014

Open Access Publishing: A Literature Review
Create UK 2014/01
AHA Day 1: Digital History Workshopalooza
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/01/02
Google Scholar Is Doing Just Fine, Says Google
The Atlantic 2014/01/03
Wiley Pilots Transferable Peer Review
Wiley Exchanges Blog 2014/01/06
Sherlock's Expiring Copyright: It's Public Domain, Dear Watson
NPR 2014/01/07
Academics Protest Bavaria's About-Face on Publishing 'Mein Kampf'
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/01/13
Séralini retraction is black mark on scientific publishing – Georgetown professors
GMO Seralini 2014/01/13
Retractions – Practices and Penalties
Wiley Exchanges Blog 2014/01/13
Thoughts on Open Access Panels
Chronicle of Higher Education Blog 2014/01/14
bioRxiv: The preprint server for biology
Technophilic Magazine 2014/01/15
Understanding your rights: repositories, websites, and “self-archiving”
Scientific American Blog 2014/01/17
Do Altmetrics Correlate with Citations? Extensive comparison of Altmetric Indicators with Citations From a Multidisciplinary Perspective
ArXiv 2014/01/17
Canadian Government's Library Closings May Hurt Research, Academics Say
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/01/20
Re-thinking the Place of Writing in Our Lives
Chronicle of Higher Education Blog 2014/01/23
What’s the Point of Academic Publishing?
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/01/24
It’s the Neoliberalism, Stupid: Why instrumentalist arguments for Open Access, Open Data, and Open Science are not enough.
London School of Economics and Political Science Blog 2014/01/27
First SCOAP3 articles available. Open Access.
SCOAP3 Press Release 2014/01/28
Shaping the Future of Monograph Publishing in the Liberal Arts
Lever Initiative Results of a survey to Oberlin Group Faculty 2014/01/28
After Backlash, Scholarly Group’s Chief to Seek Review of Proposed Blog Ban
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/01/30
Drug Company Will Share Clinical-Trial Data in Pact With Yale
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/01/30
Timid About Fair Use?
Inside Higher Ed 2014/01/30
QuickWire: Anthropology Journal Moves to Open-Access Model
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/02/04
Researchers Resist Pressure to Show Impact of Their Work
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/02/09
Indian Publisher to Pull U.S. Scholar’s Book on Hinduism After Lawsuit
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/02/11
QuickWire: Yahoo Offers Data Access to Carnegie Mellon U. Researchers
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/02/12
MIT Is Still Working on Its Response to Aaron Swartz Case
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/02/13
Baylor Libraries Join SCOAP3 Partnership
Baylor University News 2014/02/11
U. of Texas Library Buys 64,000 CDs and LPs From Campus Radio Station
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/02/14
You're Not Going to Read This: But You'll Probably Share It Anyway
The Verge 2014/02/14
The Professor Is In: Should You Mention Your Blog in Your Job Application
Chronicle Vitae 2014/02/24
Publishers Withdraw More Than 120 Gibberish Papers
Nature News 2014/02/24
Publishers Withdraw More Than 120 Fake, Computer-Generated Papers
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/02/25
How computer-generated fake papers are flooding academia
The Guardian 2014/02/26
Springer Statement on SCIgen-generated Papers in Conference Proceedings
Springer 2014/02/27
Peer-review mysteries and simple things publishers can do to help readers
Scientific American Blog 2014/02/28
The Amazing Adventures of the Comic-Book Dissertator
Chronicle Vitae 2014/02/28
Harvard Professor Settles Fair-Use Dispute With Record Label
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/02/28
Researchers at Fukushima Feel Stymied by Authorities
Chronicle of Higher Ed 2014/03/03
I own my data, until I don’t.
Small Pond Science Blog 2014/03/03
Altmetrics: Emphasizing the Plural
Scientific American Blog 2014/03/04
The costs for going Gold in the Netherlands
WoW! Wouter on the Web 2014/03/015
The No-Fail Secret to Writing a Dissertation
Chronicle Vitae 2014/03/06
Getty Images Makes 35 Million Photos Free to Use Online
Open Culture Blog 2014/03/06
Dispute Over Who Will Publish an Academic Journal Goes to Court
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2014/03/13
ew Repository Offers a Home for Data That Aren’t Numbers
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/03/10
Hollywood's Copyright Lobbyists Are Like Exes Who Won't Give Up
Slate 2014/03/10
Harvard's Looking for a 'Wikipedian in Residence'
The Atlantic 2014/03/12
Director of Research Integrity Resigns, Citing Frustration With Bureaucracy
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/03/13
When Productivity Becomes Hyperactivity
Inside Higher Edu 2014/03/14
Virginia Commonwealth U. Professor’s Novel Is Banned in Qatar
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/03/17
Lowered Cites
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/03/17
Article Writing – 10 steps to getting it done write!
The Daily Academic 2014/03/23
What seems like common sense isn’t common practice, says Rowena Murray who shares her top tips for getting published.
Writing for an academic journal: 10 tips Blog 2014/03/23
New Center at Stanford U. Takes On the Credibility Problem in Science
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/03/24
The sheer scale of hybrid journal publishing
Open Access Working Group 2014/03/24
One Size Doesn’t Fit All in Open Access
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/03/24
How to Help Others Find Your Work: Austin Kleon’s Show Your Work
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/03/25
What Does “Unsustainable” Mean?
Scholarly Kitchen Blog 2014/03/25
Post publication peer-review: Everything changes, and everything stays the same
Scientific American Blog 2014/03/26
Scholars Collaborate to Make Sound Recordings More Accessible
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/03/26
The cost of open access publishing: a progress report
Wellcome Trust Blog 2014/03/28
HEFCE announces Open Access policy for the next REF in the UK: Why this Open Access policy will be a game-changer
London School of Economics and Political Science 2014/04/01
Hinduism Experts Fear Lasting Effects of Controversy Over Scholar’s Book
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/04/03
The 3 dangers of publishing in “megajournals”–and how you can avoid them
Impact Story Blog 2014/04/03
Publishing may be a button, but publishing isn’t all we need
Neuro Dojo blog 2014/04/04
Public underwriting of research and open access
The Occasional Pamphlet blog 2014/04/04
Collecting Altmetric Data in China
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/04/06
Fair Use Promoted at House of Representatives Copyright Hearing
ARL Newsbrief 2014/04/07
Frustration of the day: unclear article numbers
American Scientist Information Culture Blog 2014/04/09
How is Authorea different from Google Docs?
Authorea 2014/04/09
A Scalable and Sustainable Approach to Open Access Publishing and Archiving for Humanities and Social Sciences
K|N Consultants White Paper 2014/04/11
Why would you want to keep your copyrights when you’re not planning to republish?
Pegasus Librarian blog 2014/04/15
Why Universities Should Care About Altmetrics
OpenUCT Initiative blog 2014/04/15
Digital Public Library of America Celebrates Its Birthday
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/04/18
Introduction to Traditional Peer Review
Scientific American Information Culture Blog 2014/04/19
A Public Library of the Humanities? An Interview with Martin Paul Eve
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/04/21
A Quick Recap of Day of DH 2014
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/04/22
Is Biblioleaks Inevitable?
Journal of Medical Internet Research 2014/04/22
Shakespeare’s Dictionary? Skepticism Abounds.
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/04/23
Are 90% of Academic Papers Really Never Cited? Reviewing the Literature on Academic Citations.
London School of Economics 2014/04/23
Who did what? Clarifying author roles benefits researchers, publishers and students.
Scientific American Information Culture Blog 2014/04/23
Struggling With Structure? Break Out the Scissors.
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/04/23
Elsevier journals — some facts
Gowers Blog 2014/04/24
Library Spend on Journal Big Deals
Research Libraries UK 2014/04/24
The cost of academic publishing
Open Access Working Group 2014/04/24
Cost of Elsevier journals by university enrolment
NeuroDojo blog 2014/04/24
The disruption of the disruption is temporary
The Idea Logical Company: The Shatzkin Files blog 2014/04/30
Universities are confusing accountability with accountancy
University Affairs/Affaires Universitaires 2014/04/30
Avoiding headaches when citing your sources
Scientific American Blog 2014/05/01
Altmetrics: Mistaking the Means for the End
Scholarly Kitchen 2014/05/01
Penn State’s Patent Auction Produces More Lessons Than Revenue
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/05/01
The R-Factor: A Measure of Scientific Veracity
The Winnower 2014/05/06
The Big Deal’s Damage
Library Journal 2014/05/09
The cost of scientific publishing: update and call for action
Open Access Working Group 2014/05/16
A Rational System for Funding Scholarly Monographs
AAU-ARL White Paper 2014/05/16
The Erosion of Faculty Rights
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/05/19
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Open Access Publishing 2014/05/20
New Alliance Aims to Answer Authors' Questions About Rights
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/05/21
Academic citation practices need to be modernized so that all references are digital and lead to full texts
London School of Economics and Political Science Blog 2014/05/21
Death of ‘Patent Troll’ Bill Is Mixed Blessing for Research Universities
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/05/22
‘Financial Times’ Questions Data in French Economist’s Best-Selling Book
Chronicle of Higher Education 2010/05/23
Dear First-Time Author: How to Turn Your Dissertation Into a Book
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/06/03
Stem-Cell Scientist Agrees to Withdraw What Had Been Groundbreaking Paper
Chronicle of Higher Education 2010/06/04
How universities can support open-access journal publishing
The Occasional Pamphlet 2014/06/04
The Professor Is In: When to Publish Your Book, and When to Hold Off
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2014/06/09
Libraries Applaud Landmark Copyright Ruling Affirming Fair Use
Association of Research Libraries News Release 2014/06/10
HathiTrust Digital Library Wins Latest Round in Battle With Authors
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/06/10
‘Dubliners’ Comes to Life in Boston College’s Annotated E-Book
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/06/10
Are research output measures more worthy than critical review?
Times Higher Education 2014/06/12
Ten Reasons You Should Put Altmetrics on Your CV Right Now
Impact Story Blog 2014/06/12
Prospectus for an Institutionally Funded First-book Subvention
AAU-ARL 2014/06/12
A Clash of Values | Peer to Peer Review
Library Journal Blog 2014/06/12
Academic publisher tried to stop publication of paper on price-gouging in academic publishing
Boing Boing Blog 2014/6/13
Academics Continue Flirting With a Former Foe: Wikipedia
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/06/13
Making a spectacle of scientific research
Higher Education Marketing Blog 2014/06/15
Evaluating big deal journal bundles
PNAS 2014/06/16
How much did your university pay for your journals?
Science Insider 2014/06/16
Study Finds Major Inconsistencies in Journal Pricing
Inside Higher Ed 2014/06/17
Your university is definitely paying too much for journals
bjoern.brembs.blog 2014/06/17
Does the scientific journal have a future?
Scientific American Blog 2014/06/18
Secret bundles of profit
Science 2014/06/20
What Writing and Running Have in Common
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/06/23
Replication Crisis in Psychology Research Turns Ugly and Odd
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/06/23
4 Things Every Librarian Should do with Altmetrics
Impact Story Blog 2014/06/25
Metrics market
Nature 2014/06/25
In the Digital Era, Print Still Gets Plenty of Love From Scholars
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/06/26
Why I am a product manager at PLOS: Linking up value across the research process
PLoS Tech Blog 2014/06/26
Who Ought to Underwrite Publishing Scholars’ Books?
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/06/27
Introduction to open peer review
Scientific American Blog 2014/06/28
In Japan, Research Scandal Prompts Questions
Chronicle of Higher Education 2014/06/30
Statement on Intellectual Property
American Association of University Professors, June 2014
The Imperative for Open Altmetrics
Journal of Electronic Publishing 2014 Summer

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