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Criticisms of the Citation System, and Google Scholar in Particular

By Louis Coiffait | Published: March 20, 2019

In his second article about the citation system and Google Scholar, Louis Coiffait looks at some of the current criticisms.

Also posted in Impact, Recognition, Research, Science & Social Science | Tagged Citations, Google, Google Scholar, references, Research, scholar, scholarly | Leave a comment

Trump Administration Requests 12 Percent Cut to NSF Budget

By Social Science Space | Published: March 19, 2019

The two federal agencies that spend the most on making grants to social and behavioral science research in the United States, both have their budgets...

Also posted in Academic Funding, News | Tagged CNSF, NSF, NSF Funding | Leave a comment

Looking at Plan S From Down Under

By Ritesh Chugh and Kenneth Howah | Published: March 13, 2019

Plan S focuses on making all publicly funded research immediately fully and freely available by open access publication. If Australia does not adopt Plan S,...

Also posted in Higher Education Reform | Tagged cOAlition S, Plan S, The Conversation | Leave a comment

Read Compelling Studies from Award-Winning ‘AERA Open’

By Brooke Stanley | Published: February 15, 2019

In honor of AERA Open being named “Best New Journal in Social Sciences” in the 2019 Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, or PROSE,...

Also posted in Bookshelf, Communication, Research | Tagged AERA, PROSE Awards | Leave a comment

In Age of Open Science, Should Your Presentation Appear Online?

By Elie Diner | Published: February 12, 2019

Elie Diner presents arguments for and against sharing research presentations online, arguing that sharing research presentations should be seen as part of the mainstream of...

Also posted in Career, Higher Education Reform | Tagged LSE, Open Science, Presentations | Leave a comment

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

By Brian Cody | Published: December 26, 2018

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...

Also posted in Public Policy | Tagged Plan S, Publication Concerns | Leave a comment

Why Developing Countries are Vulnerable to Predatory Journals

By Sioux McKenna | Published: September 18, 2018

Predatory publications are different from mainstream journals because they charge exorbitant fees to publish the articles they solicit, and they don’t follow any of the...

Also posted in Academic Funding | Tagged Academic Journals | Leave a comment

Free the Data to Move Towards Open Science

By Jessica Couture | Published: August 29, 2018

A survey of environmental research shows only 26 percent of the projects made their data accessible, despite data-sharing requirements from funders. In this commentary, lead...

Posted in Open Access | Tagged Free Access | Leave a comment

Open Access and Learned Societies: An Update

By Robert Dingwall | Published: October 24, 2017

Publishing remains a key part of the mission of many British learned societies, as does disseminating scholarship and staying afloat. A new report appearing in...

Also posted in News | Tagged learned societies | Leave a comment

Who Will Challenge the Predators Now That Beall’s List is Gone?

By Michael J.I. Brown | Published: January 24, 2017

University librarian Jeffrey Beall used to write a blog that identified by name what he saw as predatory publishers of academic journals. Since he suddenly...

Also posted in Communication | Tagged Jeffrey Beall, Predatory Publishing, Publication Concerns, The Conversation | Leave a comment

Introducing SocArXiv — an Open Archive for Social Science

By Philip Cohen | Published: July 14, 2016

Sociologist Philip Cohen of the University of Maryland introduces SocArxiv, a fast, free, open paper server to encourage wider open scholarship in the social...

Posted in Open Access | Tagged Archive, Center for Open Science, Open Access, SocArXiv | Leave a comment

Could ‘Faculty Publication Funds’ Drive Gold OA?

By Stephen Pinfield | Published: March 16, 2016

Having tracked and analysed the usage data of one university’s central open access fund over eight years, Stephen Pinfield finds that mandates, particularly if accompanied by funding,...

Posted in Open Access | Tagged Central Fund, Gold OA, Innovative Diffusion Theory, LSE Impact | Leave a comment

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Criticisms of the Citation System, and Google Scholar in Particular

Trump Administration Requests 12 Percent Cut to NSF Budget

Looking at Plan S From Down Under

Read Compelling Studies from Award-Winning ‘AERA Open’

In Age of Open Science, Should Your Presentation Appear Online?

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

Why Developing Countries are Vulnerable to Predatory Journals

Free the Data to Move Towards Open Science

Open Access and Learned Societies: An Update

Who Will Challenge the Predators Now That Beall’s List is Gone?

Introducing SocArXiv — an Open Archive for Social Science

Could ‘Faculty Publication Funds’ Drive Gold OA?

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