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Zendy – a new OA content platform11 December 2018A new platform has been created to facilitate access to a wide array of open access academic literature. Zendy has been developed by Knowledge E as part of a growing collaboration between academic researchers, students, institutions and publishers, and currently indexes over 20,000 journals and 100 million open access source items. The results extend beyond […]
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TRANSPOSE10 December 2018TRANSPOSE is a grassroots initiative building a crowdsourced database of journal policies with the goal to improve and sustain TRANsparency in Scholarly Publishing for Open Scholarship Evolution. The group includes contributors from Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, UPenn, bioRxiv, PREreview, Crossref, ASAPbio, Know-Center, Austria, and OpenUp. The team are focusing on three areas: open […]
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Most popular ESE articles in November8 December 2018In our monthly look at the top five most read papers from our journal European Science Editing, we have our ever-present peer review training card exchange game, and four new entries. Two articles come from the latest issue of the journal; the EASE endorsement of the Joint Position Statement (JPS) on the Role of Professional […]
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Nine major funders sign ORCID Open Letter7 December 2018Nine funding agencies in seven countries have signed an ORCiD open letter committing to implement ORCID iDs in the grant application and reporting process, in accordance with the organisation’s best practice guidelines for funders. The nine funders are: 1. Austrian Science Fund (FWF) (Austria)2. National Research Foundation (South Africa) 3. Howard Hughes Medical Institute (USA)4. […]
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Publishers v ResearchGate: round 27 December 2018The American Chemical Society and Elsevier are in another legal battle against ResearchGate—this time in the USA. The publishers state that ResearchGate is illegally obtaining and distributing research articles protected by copyright law. The Coalition for Responsible Sharing, formed by the American Chemical Society, Elsevier, and other publishers, says it wants ResearchGate to take responsibility for […]
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JAMA on fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism in research reporting7 December 2018Twelve retraction notices about 15 articles (six by the same author) and six notices of Expression of Concern about nine articles have been tallied by JAMA and the JAMA Network journals over the past five years. Using JAMA’s approach as an example, Editor-in-Chief Howard Baucher, addresses the roles and responsibilities of editors and of institutions in the […]
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European Science Editing issue 44(4) released5 December 2018The latest issue of EASE journal European Science Editing has been published. Read it online now: http://europeanscienceediting.eu/issues/444/ Our editorial goes back to the classics as it calls our attention to new questionnaires and how to interpret their structure (p74). In the original article section, Lopes Fujita, Agustin-Lacruz, and Terra present an investigation of 64 journal […]
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Toolkit to improve research integrity4 December 2018Integrity promotes trust and confidence in research. The Royal Society and the UK Research Integrity Office have written a toolkit to support, improve, and inspire creative thinking around research integrity and culture within research organisations. Seven aims are outlined: (1) creating informal channels to openly discuss research integrity(2) creating a dialogue around research integrity and […]
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One-third of authors do not comply with OA rules27 November 2018Illustration by Sébastien Thibault Nature has published the first large-scale analysis of author compliance to open access (OA) rules, reporting that of the more than 1.3 million articles identified as subject to the OA mandates, two-thirds were freely available to read. The authors report that the proportion of ‘green’ and ‘gold’ OA articles has risen […]
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In Review22 November 2018Publisher BMC has opened up its manuscript submission and peer review process, so that authors can more easily track the status of their manuscripts and even share linked to works under review. The system, called In Review, was developed using Research Square’s pre-publication platform. It will be available for four BMC journals: BMC Anesthesiology, BMC […]
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Commitment statement in the earth, space, and environmental sciences19 November 2018The Coalition on Publishing Data in the Earth and Space Sciences (COPDESS) has published a commitment statement for the availability and interaoperability of data. The statement builds on a 2014 statement and the Enabling FAIR Data Project. The statement commits to the goals of: “Ensuring that earth, space, and environmental science research outputs, including data, […]
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EASE signs the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications13 November 2018EASE is pleased to become a signatory to the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications. The principles of the Coalition share many of the goals of our Gender Policy Committee, and we look forward to contributing to the group’s mission, and collaborating with other signatory organisations in the future. Our name has been […]
