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Scholarly Communications News from Jul-Dec 2015

The Metric Tide: Report of the Independent Review of the Role of Metrics in Research Assessment and Management
Higher Education Funding Council for England 2015/07
Psychological Association Helped Justify Torture Program, Bombshell Report Says
Chronicle of Higher Education 2016/07/10
Arizona State Professor Is Demoted After Plagiarism Inquiry
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/07/13
Days After Leak of Damning Report, 3 APA Officials Announce Departures
Chronicle of Higher Education 2016/07/14
Russia Moves to Limit Scientific Exchange With the West
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/07/15
Let’s Give Student Researchers the Credit They Deserve
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/07/20
Psychologist Implicated in APA’s Torture Report Resigns Academic Post
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/07/21
Emerald Group Publishing Tests ZEN, Increases Prices: What Does It Mean?
Open and Shut (Richard Poynder) 2015/07/22
Researchers Open Repository for ‘Dark Data’
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/07/22
New Scopus Article Metrics: A better way to benchmark articles
Scopus Blog 2015/07/29
Predatory Publishing Isn’t The Problem, It’s a Symptom of Information Inequality
Digital Science 2015/07/29
Wanderers and Homebodies
Inside Higher Education 2015/07/30
U. of Oregon Graduate Student Admits to Falsifying Data for 4 Papers
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/07/30
FASTR Approved by Senate Committee
Library Journal 2015/07/30
Goodbye to All That
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2015/07/31
New Leaders Bring Marketing Chops to University Presses
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/08/03
When Researchers State Goals for Clinical Trials in Advance, Success Rates Plunge
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/08/05
What Can You Believe In An Open Access Journal World?
Science 2.0 Blog 2015/08/11
Open Peer Review at Collabra: Q&A with University of California Press Director Alison Mudditt
Open and Shut (Richard Poynder) 2015/08/13
Alternatives to the Academic Essay
Inside Higher Ed 2015/08/18
Concerns dwindle over quality of open access journals
Times Higher Education 2015/08/18
Less Than Half of Major Social-Science Studies Are Reproducible, Analysis Says
Chronicle of Higher Edu 2015/08/27
The Results of the Reproducibility Project Are In. They’re Not Good.
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/08/28
writing centred supervision
patter blog 2015/08/31
Research is more than the journal it’s published in
The Independent Collegian 2015/09/02
Universities Are Falling Behind on Reproducibility Reform, Scientists Say
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/09/02
Article Level Metrics: A Valuable Way to Gauge an Article’s Real-time Impact
Science Direct Blog 2015/09/03
PhD Talk for AcademicTransfer: How to Start Blogging as a Researcher
PhD Talk blog 2015/09/03
Researcher as victim. Researcher as predator.
Science in the Open 2015/09/07
Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal
Open and Shut (Richard Poynder) 2015/09/08
How to publish your first scientific paper
BackReAction 2015/09/11
Landmark Analysis of an Infamous Medical Study Points Out the Challenges of Research Oversight
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/09/17
Are publishers really 'hoodwinking' academics?
The Guardian 2015/09/17
Academic Social Network Hopes to Change the Culture of Peer Review
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/09/25
Meet Retraction Watch, the Blog That Points Out the Human Stains on the Scientific Record
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/09/25
Predatory publishers earned $75 million last year, study finds
Science Insider, 2015/09/30
Scholars Talk Writing: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/10/06
Open access Papers 'More Likely to be Cited on Twitter'
Times Higher Education 2015/10/10
Journal Publishers Rethink a Research Mainstay: Peer Review
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/10/11
Open Letter to PLoS – Libraries Role in Data Curation
Datacure 2015/10/15
How to Get a Useful Critique
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2015/10/15
Google book-scanning project legal, says U.S. appeals court
Reuters 2015/10/16
Google Gets Another Win in Book-Scanning Court Challenge
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/10/16
Academics have found a way to access insanely expensive research papers—for free
Quartz 2015/10/21
Influential, impactful and open
BioMed Central 2015/10/22
The Academic Book as Expensive, Nihilistic Hobby
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2015/10/23
Professor, Your Writing Could Use Some Help
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/10/26
Groundbreaking University of California Policy Extends Free Access to All Scholarly Articles Written by UC Employees
University of California Office of Scholarly Communication 2015/10/26
Google’s Court Victory Is Good for Scholarly Authors. Here’s Why.
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/10/27
Open Access at a Crossroads
Scholarly Kitchen 2015/10/28
Subscription Scare Fuels Worries Over Who Controls Data That Scholars Need
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/10/30
How to Help Researchers' Discoveries Go Viral
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/11/1
Language of Protest
Inside Higher Ed 2015/11/2
Editors of the Journal Lingua Protest-Quit in Battle for Open Access
Wired 2015/11/05
What a Mass Exodus at a Linguistics Journal Means for Scholarly Publishing
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/11/5
What Open-Access Publishing Actually Costs
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/11/09
How computers broke science – and what we can do to fix it
The Conversation 2015/11/09
Introducing Open Library of the Humanities
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/11/10
The future of scholarly publishing
Oxford University Press blog 2015/11/10
Rampant academic dishonesty is alive and well in Malaysia
Asian Correspondent 2015/11/11
CardioBrief: Nine Reasons to Retire Print Journals Retiring editor says it's time for journals to be retired
MedageToday 2015/11/13
Open Access & Copyright: A View from the South
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/11/17
Can journals get hijacked? Apparently, yes
Retraction Watch 2015/11/19
How to hijack a journal
Science 2015/11/20
Self Correction
The Scientist 2015/12/01
Here’s why academics should write for the public
The Conversation 2015/12/01
As Academia.edu Grows, Some Scholars Voice Concerns
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/12/02
In Fight Over Academic Publishing House, Fear of Corporate Values
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/12/02
NIST and CHORUS Launch Pilot Project to Support NIST’s Public Access Plan
NIST news release 2015/12/3
The Scientific Outreach Gap
The Scientist 2015/12/07
ScienceOpen implements Altmetric to rank 10 million articles
Research Information 2015/12/07
Creative Commons Hits 1 Billion Licenses for Free Usage
CBCNews 2015/12/08
Sting on Scholars' Nondisclosure
Inside Higher Ed 2015/12/08
Dutch universities and Elsevier reach deal over open access
Times Higher Ed 2015/12/10
Can Data Measure Faculty Productivity? Rutgers Professors Say No
Chronicle of Higher Education 2015/12/11
PubPeer and Anonymity in Science
Discover 2015/12/12
How to reach a wider audience for your research
SciDevNet 2015/12/21
Anne Frank’s diary can be copied for scientific research: court
DutchNews 2015/12/29
The Authors Guild files to take Google to the Supreme Court
Washington Post 2015/12/31
Why researchers keep citing retracted papers
Quartz 2015/12/31

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