Publication Concerns

COPE Report Explores Publication Issues in HSS
Research
November 19, 2019

COPE Report Explores Publication Issues in HSS

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‘The Old Models Are Not Working’: A Librarian on the New Big Deal
Communication
October 22, 2019

‘The Old Models Are Not Working’: A Librarian on the New Big Deal

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Textbook Merger Papers Over One Learning Benefit
Communication
October 19, 2019

Textbook Merger Papers Over One Learning Benefit

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Modernizing the Monograph Ecosystem Can Save Them From Extinction
Communication
August 16, 2019

Modernizing the Monograph Ecosystem Can Save Them From Extinction

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UC Librarian Foresees Seismic Shift from Elsevier Showdown

UC Librarian Foresees Seismic Shift from Elsevier Showdown

In the wake of Elsevier shuttering access to its current journal articles at the University of California, the university librarian at UC-Davis reviews the context of the dispute and argues open access offers the best path for academia’s future.

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Examining Open Access and Commercial Success

Examining Open Access and Commercial Success

If higher fees result in fewer academics wanting to publish with a journal, then it seems likely when a journal introduces or increases its fees, it should see a reduction in the number of articles published. But researcher Shaun Khoo did not find any evidence that this was the case.

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How Journal Impact Factor Affects Your Career

How Journal Impact Factor Affects Your Career

A new preprint was recently shared on PeerJ Preprints on the Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations. Alice Fleerackers, Juan Pablo Alperin, and Erin McKiernan discuss the investigation and the findings on how the flawed metric is currently used in tenure and promotion decisions in universities across North America.

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What’s the Best Day to Submit an Academic Article?

What’s the Best Day to Submit an Academic Article?

Large data sets can now be quickly analyzed to assess whether or not certain features, previously deemed unimportant, can actually affect the chances of a research paper being accepted for publication. In this post, James Hartley looks at new research on weekly submission dates.

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DARPA Aims to Score Social and Behavioral Research

DARPA Aims to Score Social and Behavioral Research

The U.S. military’s innovation incubator, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has signed the Center for Open Science to create a research claims database as DARPA’s first step to assign a ‘credibility score’ to social and behavioral science research.

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Writing Style in Abstract Linked to NSF Grant Payout

Writing Style in Abstract Linked to NSF Grant Payout

A text analysis of nine years of grant abstracts submitted to the NSF indicated that what researchers say and how we say it can foretell the amount of funding we are awarded. They also show that the writing funders idealize may not always match up with what they actually prefer.

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How Do I Share My Article? Top Tips for After Publication

How Do I Share My Article? Top Tips for After Publication

Publishing an article in a reputed academic journal is no mean feat. From the initial grant proposal, through to writing the paper, formatting it to meet journal guidelines and then waiting for peer review to be complete, a huge amount of time and work is required. And that’s assuming you’re accepted first time! Here’s how we counsel people about this at SAGE.

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Plan S[how me the money]: Academic-led Initiatives vs. Less Costly Publishing Future

Plan S[how me the money]: Academic-led Initiatives vs. Less Costly Publishing Future

Plan S represents an exciting example of the scholarly community mobilizing to create funding requirements that could lead to an open access future. However, the plan has also raised a number of legitimate concerns, not least the absence of any incentive for publishers to lower journal costs. Brian Cody suggests how simple adjustments to the proposed article processing charge cap could encourage publishers to reduce costs and so free up funds for other open access projects.

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