Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – May 22, 2015
Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week
Chronicle of Higher Education
‘We need to take a look at the data’: how 2 persistent grad students upended a blockbuster study
New York Times
Retraction sought in study on views of gay marriage
Science
Open-access publisher sacks 31 editors amid fierce row over independence
Frontiers Blog
Frontiers acts to defend distributed editorial independence
The Conversation
Publisher pushback puts open access in peril
Research Information
Elsevier rebuffs COAR/SPARC criticism of sharing and hosting policy
Retraction Watch
What should an ideal retraction notice look like?
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Blind trust in unblinded observation in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
BioMed Central blogs
The future of peer review
NY Times
Fake diplomas, real cash: Pakistani company Axact reaps millions
Boston Globe
The exploitative economics of academic publishing
Library Journal
U. Minnesota Press, CUNY grad center develop hybrid publishing platform
University of Delaware
University of Delaware Library joins COAPI open access coalition
Campus Technology
CU Boulder adopts Open Access
BBC
Ocean’s hidden world of plankton revealed in ‘enormous database’
BBC
Opal citizen science project expands across the UK
University World News
Major research trends – clustered, international, open
Berkeley Blogs
Cracking open the social sciences: Leamer and Rosenthal strike again
Telegraph
Why do British universities still give ‘scientific’ credibility to homeopathy?
PR Newswire
Amy Brand, Digital Science, receives 2015 CSE award for meritorious achievement
Research Information
Sage and Publons announce peer review pilot
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