In the green open access environment, the embargo’ s length is the key for a good balance between vital incomes for the publisher and free access for the scientific community.

Jeffrey Bealls’ updated list of predatory publishers.

How do you judge how much a scientific study or academic article has been used?  Researcher Philip Davis is trying to provide some new answers to that question by taking a look at ‘usage half-life,’ in an effort to learn more about the academic publishing life cycle.

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Several publishing associations are banding together over a new set of principles to tell the legitimate journals from the crowd of questionable editorial practices.

The button, an easy-to-use browser bookmarklet, searches for alternative access to the article, identifying open access versions of articles/research on the internet while mapping where obstacles are inhibiting research advances around the world.

Women are seriously under-represented within the academic publishing system: this is the conclusion of two teams of scientists after reviewing the authorship of 5.4 million peer-reviewed articles.

Presentation of a new peer reviewing model based on the reviewers’ private thoughts. In a common process, peer reviewers may be asked to stick to an objective assessment of whether a paper’s methods look sound. And this, the author thinks, can be damaging especially in some contentious fields.

Scientists overwhelmingly support the notion of making research papers freely available, but fewer publish their work in so-called open-access journals that make papers free immediately upon publication.

The journal Science has uncovered, via investigation, a thriving black market in science paper authoring—people are paying to have their names added to papers that have been written to describe research efforts.

ALLEA (All European Academies) has released a paper which invites European authorities to take measures facilitating an Open Access model under consideration of the specificities of the various scientific disciplines.