Read the full story in the Los Angeles Times. Boiled down to dollars and cents, the battle between the University of California, the nation’s premier
Category: Scientific publishing
What a massive database of retracted papers reveals about science publishing’s ‘death penalty’
Read the full story in Science. Nearly a decade ago, headlines highlighted a disturbing trend in science: The number of articles retracted by journals had
Why pay for what’s free? Finding open access and public domain articles
Read the full post at Everybody’s Libraries. [Another version of this post appears on PennLibNews, as part of the Penn Libraries’ celebration of Open Access Week.] It happens
From Paywall to Datawall
Read the full post at Scholarly Kitchen. Almost every day, my email or Twitter feed brings an alert to a “free” report, article, white paper,
ORI Grant Funds Automated Tool to Detect Potential Fraud in Scientific Papers
Read the full story from Syracuse University. The Office of Research Integrity in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded funding to a School of Information
EU and national funders launch plan for free and immediate open access to journals
Read the full story at Science|Business. The European Commission and a group of national research funders have laid out a controversial and perhaps precedent-setting plan
