Read the full post at TechDirt. Techdirt has written many stories about the publisher Elsevier. They have all been pretty negative: the company seems determined to
Category: Scientific publishing
PLOS announces new website for peer reviewers
Read the full story from AAAS. Peer review is vital to scientific publishing, yet is often not formally taught. In support of its global peer
Research Shows That Published Versions Of Papers In Costly Academic Titles Add Almost Nothing To The Freely-Available Preprints They Are Based On
Read the full story at Techdirt. The open access movement believes that academic publications should be freely available to all, not least because most of the research
How to Archive Open Source Materials
Read the full post at Bellingcat. When conducting open source investigations, an ever-present issue is how to archive away the materials you are researching. For
Stanford professor withdraws $10 million libel suit against journal, academic critic
Read the full story in the Washington Post. A Stanford University professor who has argued that the nation can power itself entirely with renewable energy by the
Sci-Hub Loses Domains and Access to Some Web Services
Read the full story in The Scientist. A few months after the American Chemical Society won its lawsuit against the pirate site, the game of
