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- Q&A: Science Has Been Resilient During Pandemic, Survey Finds
Responses collected from around 25,000 academics reveal that 20 percent couldn’t do their work at all in the spring, but most had found ways to keep their research going. Read more » - For a Hefty Fee, Nature Journals Offer Open-Access Publishing
Academics will soon be able to make articles freely available in Nature-branded journals for 9,500 Euro--with a discounted option available under a pilot program that provides review, but no guarantee of acceptance. Read more » - India’s plan to pay journal subscription fees for all its citizen may end up making science harder to access
All modern scientists should share ownership of their knowledge and research. Read more » - Scientists, Publishers Debate Paychecks for Peer Reviewers
While some academics have called for compensation for assessing other scientists' work, publishers haven’t warmed to the idea. Read more » - Nature-Branded Journals Announce First Open-Access Deal
The agreement will enable authors at eligible German institutes to publish an estimated 400 open-access papers each year in Springer Nature journals from the Nature line of titles. Read more » - Covid-19: the rise of a global collective intelligence?
Individually, we are all helpless in the face of the coronavirus crisis. A global collaborative boom is changing the way science is done. Read more » - Opinion: Stop Private Speculation in COVID-19 Research
We present an economic plan for a collective sharing of scientific knowledge on the pandemic. Read more » - The hunt for a coronavirus cure is showing how science can change for the better
But there are also risks to open science. Read more » - Journals Open Access to Coronavirus Resources
Nearly 100 academic journals, societies, institutes, and companies sign a commitment to make research and data on COVID-19 freely available, at least for the duration of the outbreak. Read more » - What to Expect in the Publishing World in 2020
Publishers' efforts to reduce "leakage," funder-driven open-access schemes, the growth of academic publishing in China, and more. Read more » - 2019 Was Big for Academic Publishing. Here's Our Year in Review
Licensing negotiations between libraries and publishers continued, a radical open-access plan made changes, and the flaws of some publishing tools and techniques came to light. Read more » - Archaeological discoveries are happening faster than ever before, helping refine the human story
20 years ago, who could predict how much more researchers would know today about the human past – let alone what they could learn from a thimble of dirt, a scrape of dental plaque, or satellites in space. Read more » - SCImago Journal Rank and Source Normalized Impact per Paper Performance of De Gruyter’s Open Access Journals
Similar to an increase in the average SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) and Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) levels of De Gruyter’s Open Access journals between 2015 and 2016, in 2018 the SJR and SNIP metrics has exceeded their levels for previous years, such as 2016. At the same time,… Read more » - The Output and Impact Factor Performance of Open Access Journal Portfolio of De Gruyter between 2014 and 2018
As output and performance data concerning De Gruyter’s Open Access journals for recent years suggest, launching journals as Open Access titles increasingly serves as significant precondition for attaining high levels of impact factor performance. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. According to Scopus database information, in 2014 De Gruyter Open,… Read more » - Elsevier Progresses in Open-Access Deal Making
The scholarly publisher has announced several new licensing agreements in both Europe and the US--but some major academic groups are still without contracts and access to journals. Read more » - CiteScore Statistics Show the Growing Performance of De Gruyter’s Open Access Journals in Recent Years
As analyses of the year-to-year index-level performance of the Open Access journals of De Gruyter indicate, narrow-scope Open Access journals have tended to outperform their more recently launched, broad-scope counterparts. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. CiteScore is a metric developed by Elsevier, to reflect the citation impact of individual… Read more » - Opinion: Boycotting Elsevier Is Not Enough
The publishing giant will likely survive the latest boycott by scientists. An overhaul is needed to make science publishing fair and open. Read more » - Open Access Journals of De Gruyter, Journal-Level Influence Index Presence and Coverage Variation Across Metrics
The inclusion of the Open Access journals of De Gruyter into external influence ratings has been found to consistently increase between 2014 and 2018. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. External data indicate that, between 2014 and 2018, the Open Access journal portfolio of De Gruyter has more than tripled… Read more » - De Gruyter is Among Top Five Open Access Book Publishers Internationally
A recent study based on the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) data indicates that, along with Frontiers Media SA, Presses universitaires de Rennes, Australian National University (ANU) Press and Springer, De Gruyter is among the five publishers with the highest cumulative Open Access book output around the world. A… Read more » - World Health Organization Backs Open-Access Plan S
The agency joins a group of funders, cOAlition S, that supports making publications immediately available to the public for free. Read more » - Project DEAL in Germany Reaches Agreement with Springer Nature
Elsevier is now the only big scientific publisher that hasn't struck a bargain with the German consortium of libraries and research institutions. Read more » - A Research Project Suggests De Gruyter is Among the Leading Open Access Journal Publishers
According to empirical data for the recent years, between 2014 and 2017, De Gruyter, via its erstwhile imprint De Gruyter Open, has become the second most important publisher of Open Access journals globally. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. In her research article published as a pre-print on June 15,… Read more » - UC Faculty Protest Elsevier by Suspending Work for Cell Press
More than 30 professors will no longer serve on editorial boards of the journals unless Elsevier and the University of California can reach a contract. Read more » - 'Microdosers' of psychedelics report improved mood, focus and creativity
In a new research study, more than 900 people from around the world explain the challenges and benefits of microdosing LSD and psilocybin-containing mushrooms. Read more » - Klemperer Online: De Gruyter Makes All Victor Klemperer’s Diaries from 1918 to 1959 Available Digitally
De Gruyter is launching a digital version of Victor Klemperer’s archive: one of the most important sources for understanding 20th century German history. A Blog Post by Eric Merkel-Sobotta. The database Klemperer Online contains the complete and unabridged diaries of Victor Klemperer as transcripts and facsimiles of the handwritten pages… Read more » - To cure brain diseases, neuroscientists must collaborate: That's why I'm giving my data away
Thomas Durcan's lab is growing 3D mini-brains in the search for a cure for Parkinson's disease. Over the next year he is giving all his lab's protocols, methods and results away. Read more » - Sino-German Interrelations, Country-Level Economic Ties, Cultural Exchanges and their Future
In March 2019, De Gruyter has published in German a collected volume of scholarly articles dealing with the present and future interrelations between China and Germany as well as their expected challenges, inherent prospects and long-term outlook. As this collection is edited by Yu Zhang, who presides over the Berlin-based Association… Read more » - The Effects of the Shadow Economy on Economic Growth, Development Levels and Competitiveness
As recent studies indicate, the shadow economy can have both negative effects on country-level economic performance and positive effects, such as on international competitiveness. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. As Friedrich Schneider and Andreas Buehn (2018) in their article on shadow economy indicate, no single widely accepted definition of the… Read more » - The Growing Use of Big Data Sets and Data Analytics Algorithms for Knowledge Discovery and Presentation
The constantly increasing quantities of digitized empirical data transform multiple disciplines through new knowledge they help generate. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. As Joseph Ramsey, Kun Zhang and Clark Glymour (2019: 42) have argued in their recent article, big data can only contribute to the generation of new knowledge if… Read more » - Open-Access Program Plan S Relaxes Rules
In response to concerns from the research and publishing communities, the European group pushes back the deadline for its full and immediate open-access mandate to 2021. Read more » - Elsevier and Norway Agree on New Open-Access Deal
Under a two-year pilot agreement, articles published by Norwegian academics will be free to read in almost all of the publisher's journals. Read more » - As Elsevier Falters, Wiley Succeeds in Open-Access Deal Making
The divergent strategies of scholarly publishers to forge licensing agreements with libraries are yielding different results. Read more » - Norway Joins List of Countries Canceling Elsevier Contracts
The publisher failed to meet requests for better access to research, a consortium of Norwegian institutions says. Read more » - Springer Nature Now Shares Select Papers on ResearchGate
A pilot project between the scholarly publisher and the academic networking platform launched last week. Read more » - With No Open Access Deal, UC Breaks with Elsevier
After negotiating for eight months, the University of California becomes one of the first research institutions in the US to stop paying for access to the publisher’s journals. Read more » - German Institutions and Wiley Reach Open-Access Publishing Deal
The three-year contract, in which all articles will be published as open access in exchange for an annual fee for journal subscriptions, is a triumph for Project DEAL. Read more » - The Open Data Explosion
Scientists are working to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of sharing. Read more » - The Biggest Science News of 2018
From disastrous scientific setbacks to the upending of scientific dogma and the end of a 40-year search for a protein Read more » - Max Planck Society Ends Elsevier Subscription
The move is a show of support for Project DEAL and the open-access movement. Read more » - Plan S: The Ambitious Initiative to End the Reign of Paywalls
A funder-driven push for freely accessible scholarly literature has divided the scientific community. Read more » - University of California and Elsevier Locked in Negotiations
The UC system is pushing to change the subscription model and accelerate open access, but if there’s no contract agreement by December 31, faculty and students lose access altogether. Read more » - Data Sharing in Action: When Drug Companies Open Their Trial Vaults
YODA, a program facilitated by Yale University researchers, has successfully distributed clinical trial records from Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic to external researchers since 2013. Read more » - Two Big Funders Join Open-Access Movement
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust agree not to cover the fees that some hybrid open-access journals charge authors to make their work freely available. Read more » - 'Microdosers' of LSD and magic mushrooms are wiser and more creative
According to new research, individuals who take small regular doses of psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin mushrooms score higher on mental health, well-being and creativity. Read more » - Major Publishers File Second Lawsuit Against ResearchGate
As the American Chemical Society and Elsevier move litigation forward, other academic publishers have opted to collaborate with the academic network platform instead. Read more » - Opening up the future of psychedelic science
To know the real promise of psychedelic substances like LSD, mushrooms and MDMA, researchers must embrace the principles and practise of 'open science.' Read more » - Open-Access Plan in Europe Bans Publishing in Paywalled Journals
Research funding agencies in Europe will require grantees' papers to be free to read when they are available online. Read more » - Randy Schekman to Leave eLife
The founding editor-in-chief will redirect his focus to a Parkinson's organization. Read more » - Universities in Germany and Sweden Lose Access to Elsevier Journals
Consortia in both countries are pushing for open-access subscriptions with the publisher. Read more » - North American Universities Increasingly Cancel Publisher Packages
A growing number of libraries are unbundling their subscriptions to the full suite of publishers’ journals, opting for limited titles to save on costs. Read more »
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