Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – Aug 21, 2015
Retraction Watch
17 retractions from SAGE journals bring total fake peer review count to 250
Nature
Faked peer reviews prompt 64 retractions
Washington Post
Major publisher retracts 64 scientific papers in fake peer review outbreak
Fivethirtyeight
Science isn’t broken. It’s just a hell of a lot harder than we give it credit for
Times Higher Education
Concerns dwindle over quality of open access journals
BioMed Central
New report reveals growing confidence in open access quality
Research Information
Perceptions of open access publishing ‘changing for the better’
Government Computing
Research councils’ open access goal prompts HE archive action
The Conversation
Open access is a development issue: Challenge the status quo
Replication Index
Replicability ranking of 26 psychology journals
Swissinfo
Freedom and responsibility in university research
Washington Post
What live peer review looks like when the fate of the planet is at stake
Union of Concerned Scientists
Union of Concerned Scientists joins criticism of USRTK, PLoS on biotech science literacy “transparency”
Replication Index
Replicability ranking of 26 psychology journals
Authors Guild
Authors, keep your copyrights. You earned them.
The Conversation
Open access is a development issue: Challenge the status quo
Nature
The future of science will soon be upon us
Inside Higher Education
Advice for aspiring academics
Dynamic Ecology blog
What can a journal Editor-in-Chief do to attract you to submit to the journal? a poll
Wired
Wikipedia wars are harming politically charged science
Pacific Standard
Should environmental reporting get the peer-review treatment?
CILIP
Why copyright education is a fundamental part of digital and information literacy
The Guardian
How open data can help save lives
Business Wire
Nature Publishing Group participating in CCC’s new text mining solution
PR Web
The MIT Press becomes 60th publisher to partner with ReadCube
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