Guides: Scholarly Communications Archive: News from Jan-Jul 2017

Scholarly Communications News from Jan 2017 to Jul 2017

Publish and Perish
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/01/08
8 Tips to increase the reach of your research in 2017
Editage Insights 2017/01/10
Gaming the system, scientific ‘cartels’ band together to cite each others’ work
STAT 2017/01/13
Whose Name Goes First?
Chronicle of Higher Education 2016/01/11
Gates Foundation Research Can’t be Published in Top Journals
Nature News 2017/01/13
Sad Ending? Jeffrey Beall’s Blog was shut down
Support for Open Access Publishing 2017/01/15
What Happened to Jeffrey Beall’s List of (Allegedly) Predatory Publishers?
Debunking Denialism 2017/01/16
No More 'Beall's List'
Inside Higher Ed 2017/01/18
Roughing out a new system for identifying useless journals
Gavia Libraria 2017/01/18
Academic Prestige and Publishing
.txtLAB 2017/01/18
An Attempt to Replicate Top Cancer Studies Casts Doubt on Reproducibility Itself
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/01/18
Writing a Book Proposal
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2017/01/24
New study highlights need to increase female peer reviewers
American Geophysical Union 2017/01/25
Are women scientists overlooked by journals as peer reviewers?
Christian Science Monitor 2017/01/26
‘You never said my peer review was confidential’ — scientist challenges publisher
Nature 2017/01/26
New Sponsorship Model Broadens arXiv Membership
Cornell University Library 2017/01/26
Blacklists are technically infeasible, practically unreliable and unethical. Period.
Science in the Open 2017/01/29
Branding Yourself As An Academic
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2017/01/30
ACI Blog Index: Charging Money for Information About Free Content?
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/02/01
Updating the Agenda for Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communications
College & Research Libraries (Editorial by Clifford Lynch) 2017/02/01
Who knows whose journals?
Gavia Libraria 2017/02/02
The Changing Landscape of Peer Review
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/02/05
Scholars Talk Writing: Advice From an Editor
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/02/05
Improve your Writing with Expresso
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/02/13
Preprints: We're Supporting Calls for a Central Service
Wellcome Trust Blog, 2016/02/13
AAAS and Gates Foundation Partnership Announcement -- AAAS Forms Partnership to Expand Access to High-Quality Scientific Publishing
Science 2017/02/14
Does Peer Review Help Weed Out Bad Science?
The Wire 2017/03/01
Ohio State Is Investigating Possible Scientific Misconduct by Prolific Professor
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/03/08
The Rewards of Predatory Publications at a Small Business School
Journal of Scholarly Publishing 2017/03/14
Guidelines for analytical method validation: How to avoid irreproducible results and retractions
Editage Insights 2017/03/15
Honest mistakes by young scientists shouldn’t doom their careers
STAT News 2017/03/16
Wither Portable Peer Review
Scholarly Kitchen 2017/03/20
Funders ‘not doing enough’ to reduce medical research waste
Times Higher Education 2017/03/20
In the Age of Trump, Scientists See Reproducibility as Risky Business
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/03/21
"Paging Dr. Fraud": The Fake Publishers that are Running Science
New Yorker, 2017/03/22
Predatory Journals Recruit Fake Editor
Nature News 2017/03/22
Gates Foundation Announces Open-access Publishing Venture
Nature News, 2017/03/23
Leaked Elsevier Contract Reveals Pushback
ScienceGuide, 2017/03/23
Assessing the importance of scientific work
The Economist 2017/03/23
The shackles of scientific journals
The Economist 2017/03/25
The findings of medical research are disseminated too slowly
The Economist 2017/03/25
Find Open Access Articles Faster with UnPayWall
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/03/27
Not the Beall and End-all: Assessing Quality Publications from Multiple Perspectives
Australasion Open Access Strategy Group, 2017/03/27
Exposing peer review
Research Information 2017/03/28
Following Up On Interim Research Products
Extramural Nexus 2017/03/28
In Praise of ‘B’ Journals
Inside Higher Ed 2017/03/28
Critical Thinking in a Post-Beall Vacuum
Research Information, 2017/03/29
The problem with scientific publishing
The Economist 2017/03/30
The Art of the Beall
Cites & Insights 2017/04/01
The Problems with Shen/Björk’s “420,000”
Walt at Random 2017/04/03
Congratulations, you’re a parasite!
Stat 2017/04/06
How a Browser Extension Could Shake Up Academic Publishing
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/04/06
Setting your cites on open
eLife 2017/04/07
Top Scientists Revamp Standards To Foster Integrity In Research
NPR Morning Edition 2017/04/11
Four Ways of Rationalizing Infringement: or, How to Defend a Pirate
Scholarly Kitchen 2017/04/12
Female economists ‘write better but spend longer in peer review’
Inside Higher Ed 2017/04/14
How to talk about “Predatory” Publishing: Reclaiming the Narrative
A Way of Happening 2017/04/19
Open Science can save the planet
Frontiers 2017/04/19
‘A shining example of scientific integrity’ holds some lessons for all of us
Stat 2017/04/21
A Journal’s Apology Prompts Soul-Searching Over Racial Gatekeeping in Academe
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/04/21
Applications, Resubmissions, and the Relative Citation Ratio
NIH Extramural Nexus 2017/04/25
Springer announces mass retraction of 107 papers by Chinese authors
Editage 2017/04/26
Big content cheers as Congress votes on changes to US Copyright Office
Ars Technica 2017/04/26
Academe’s Poisonous Call-Out Culture
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/05/05
A Journal Article Provoked a Schism in Philosophy. Now the Rifts Are Deepening.
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/05/06
China publishes more science research with fabricated peer-review than everyone else put together
Quartz 2017/05/08
Write a Persuasive Cover Letter (for Your Research Paper Submission)
Tomorrow's Professor 2017/05/08
When most faculty publish in predatory journals, does the school become “complicit?”
Retraction Watch 2017/05/09
Opinion: The Frustrating Process of Manuscript Submission
The Scientist 2017/05/10
Fair Use Too Often Goes Unused
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017/05/10
Why we don’t need journal blacklists
Green Tea and Velociraptors 2017/05/11
A Closer Look at Cited and Citing Half Lives
Clarivate Analytics 2017/05/11
Publisher’s intervention on journal sparks ‘grave concerns’
Times Higher Education 2017/05/15
Journal’s Board of Directors Disavows Editors’ Apology for Article on ‘Transracialism’
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/05/18
Openness, Permission, Courtesy and Nuances of Licenses
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/05/18
Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen
TorrentFreak, 2017/05/18
Transparency In Authors' Contributions And Responsibilities To Promote Integrity In Scientific Publication
bioRXiv 2017/05/20
The Professor Is in: The Dissertation-to-Book Transition
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 2017/05/30
Does It Pay to Be Published in ‘Predatory’ Journals?
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017/05/30
Pay-to-view Blacklist of Predatory Jurnals Set to Launch
Nature News, 2017/05/31
The Future of the University Press: A Forum
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2017/06/01
Grad Students as Peer Reviewers: the Pros and Cons
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/06/01
Formal recognition for peer review will propel research forward
London School of Economics and Political Science 2017/06/01
Peer reviewing: a private affair between the individual researcher and the publishing houses, or a responsibility of the university?
Journal of Electronic Publishing 2017/06/01
Research Integrity Corner: Special Issue on Predatory Journals
Biochemia Medica: The Journal of Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine 2017/06/01
What I Learned from Predatory Publishers, Jeffrey Beal
Biochemia Medica: The Journal of Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine 2017/06/01
10 ways to use social media to get your research noticed
Times Higher Education 2017/06/02
Spears: Universities wrestle with how to stop fake science publishers
Ottawa Citizen 2017/06/04
Two in 100 clinical trials in eight major journals likely contain inaccurate data: Study
Retraction Watch 2017/06/05
How to Craft a Pitch
Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae 107/06/07
Chemistry Journal Introduces ‘Intelligent Crowd’ Peer Review
Chemistry World 2017/06/08
Bad Footnotes Can Be Deadly
Slate 2017/06/11
A Closer Look at the Sci-Hub Corpus: What is Being Downloaded and from Where?
London School of Economics and Political Science 2017/06/12
The Chronicle Review What the ‘Conceptual Penis’ Hoax Does and Does Not Prove
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/06/14
APA Refocuses Pilot Program Aimed At Curtailing Unauthorized Publication Of Journal Articles
American Psychological Association Press Releases 2017/06/15
How do researchers use social media and scholarly collaboration networks (SCNs)?
BioMed Central blog 2017/06/15
Universities ‘must reconnect with society’ in a sceptical world
Times Higher Education 2017/06/15
How to Avoid a Post-Scholar America
Chronicle of Higher Education 2017/06/18
Avoiding Predators in Publishing
EOS 2017/06/19
China cracks down on fake peer reviews
Nature 2017/06/20
Journal Impact Factors with Uncertainties
EOS 2017/06/20
US court grants Elsevier millions in damages from Sci-Hub
Nature 2017/06/22
“Searching our souls”: Authors retract paper after researcher admits to fabricating data
Retraction Watch 2017/06/26
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
The Guardian 2017/06/27
American Chemical Society files suit against Sci-Hub
American Chemical Society Press Release, 2017/06/28
EPA Plans New Climate Science ‘Critique,’ Swapping Peer Review For Red Vs. Blue Politics
Huffington Post 2017/06/30

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