Digital Science investigations show researchers associated with a fictitious research network and funding source have netted millions of taxpayers' dollars in funding. The post Digital Science investigation shows millions of taxpayers’ money has been awarded to researchers associated with fictitious network appeared first on Digital Science.| Digital Science
This study examines academic monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences across the United States and Europe to understand how current business models are functioning for their consumer base, namely libraries and authors. Through interviews with librarians, content aggregators, publishers, and authors, we gathered information on a variety of business models (including hybrid, digital, and print models, and those driven by open access imperatives), the needs of academic librarie...| Ithaka S+R
Straight from Elesevier’s own mouth, in a letter sent by a “Customer Experience Champion” in response to Professor Iris Van Rooij’s enquiry: Rights of papers are owned by the publishers hence, there is no consent needed from authors. (This is in the context of scholarly papers being fed to their LLM.) Folks, when you send […]| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Scholarly publishing is undergoing a period of accelerated change, shaped by breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, automation, and the increasing complexity of manuscript submissions. Journal editors and publishing professionals now face a dual challenge: a surge in submission volumes and the rise of sophisticated content, sometimes generated by AI or originating from coordinated paper mills. Traditional […] The post Beyond Automation: How AI Can Elevate Editorial Integrity in Scholarly...| Integra
Emerald Publishing has adopted Dimensions Author Check from Digital Science as part of Emerald’s ongoing commitment to research integrity.| Digital Science
In Archie Carr’s encyclopedic “Handbook of Turtles: The Turtles of the United States, Canada, and Baja California”, first published in 1952, he quotes favorably and at length the observations of “Mrs. Knowlton” on the behavior of wood turtles (Clemmys insculpta) and box turtles (Terrapene carolina). The source given in the references is: Knowlton, Josphine Gibson. […]| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
Bloomsbury Academic & Professional is partnering with Digital Science to introduce Altmetric Explorer across the whole of its e book platform, Bloomsbury Collections. The post Bloomsbury partners with Digital Science to monitor online impact appeared first on Digital Science.| Digital Science
Journals and peer review are unlikely to change for the better if the companies that operate scientific indexes and citation databases continue to stifle innovation. At eLife we believe that the content of a research article is more important than the name or impact factor of the journal in which it is published. Our approach to scientific publishing – which we adopted in 2023 – combines the immediacy and openness of preprints with the expert evaluation provided by peer review.| DORA
Digital Science has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting the global scientometric research community by relaunching the Scientometric Researcher Access to Data (SRAD) program.| Digital Science
The innovative F1000Research open research publishing model was launched in 2012 and was born out of a desire to start again, thinking about the technology and tools at the time and redesigning how we share and critically review new discoveries and support others to then build on them. The biggest challenge is the way that we typically currently assess and incentivise researchers and the research processes that they use, which together in effect disincentivises the use of these new publishing...| DORA
Scholarly publishers can now fully integrate research integrity checks into their editorial and submission workflows with Dimensions Author Check API. The post Digital Science to strengthen research integrity in publishing with new Dimensions Author Check API appeared first on Digital Science.| Digital Science
The post Judging research on its own merits: How MetaROR supports better research assessment appeared first on DORA.| DORA
The three-year agreement Wiley has signed in India is part of the Modi government's $750 million 'ONOS' program.| Publishing Perspectives
During University Press Week, Oxford University Press announces a new award for early-career researchers in humanities and social sciences.| Publishing Perspectives
The Association of University Presses opens another University Press Week promotion with readings and events for consumers.| Publishing Perspectives