The second edition of Wiley’s guidelines on publishing ethics is now available online, in Open Access. Its aim is to support all those involved in scholarly publishing with a summary of best practice guidance from leading organizations around the world.
In March 2014, the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) organized a meeting to discuss the alignment of open access repository networks across regions. The full meeting report is now available.
Reflexions on the publishing industry following the 2014 Academic Publishing in Europe (APE) Conference. Richard Padley from Semantico raises questions noticeably about post-publication peer reviewing, reproducability, data mining, enabled by semantic technologies and social media.
Jeffrey Bealls, librarian at Auraria Library, University of Colorado Denver has published a new list which purpose is to alert researchers to bogus metrics companies that have emerged over about the past year.
India faces many academic challenges: lack of open access, academic scams, priority given to subscription journals are brakes to the dissemination of knowledge.
European copyright law should change to help researchers extract facts and data from published research papers, legal experts have urged in a recent report for the European Commission.
Well established publishers receive a higher proportion of Wellcome fundings for article processing charges than newer, pure open access publishers according to a file released by the British trust.
As a major scientific publishing country with its estimated 5,000 STM journals, China’s place in the international OA publishing scene is considered in detail, with the author concluding that he believes open access to publicly funded research in China will soon become the accepted norm, as all levels of scientific policymakers fulfil their political, professional and international responsibilities, to the benefit of Chinese research and society.
In a meeting in Rome, Italy, on March 20–21, 2014, representatives from several major regional repository networks came together to develop a strategy to better align their activities. Aligning networks will enable the exchange of data among them, greatly improve access to content across regions, and allow society to extract maximum value from the products of research.
The aim of this study is to analyze the accessibility, corrosion and half-life of URLs cited in the articles of Indian LIS conference proceedings published during 2001 to 2010. A total of 5,698 URLs cited in the 1,700 articles were examined.
