Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – January 08, 2016

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Frontiers Communications in eBooks // 0 Comments

News, views and info on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week

Science

Cashing in on transparency in science

Nature

Dutch lead European push to flip journals to Open Access

The Scientist

ORCID rising

Campus Technology

Stanford launches MOOC for science teachers on helping students read scientific texts

Science

Female engineers publish in better journals, but receive fewer citations

PLOS One

On the compliance of women engineers with a gendered scientific system

Bloomberg

Academic publishing is all about status

Rabble

Canadian university libraries threatened by soaring academic publisher prices

Intellectual Property Watch

Zimbabwe plans Open Access policy, part of efforts across Africa

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Open Access movement demands more: 2015 in review

PLOS Blogs

The Open Access dinosaurs of 2015

eSchool News

LEGO’s WeDo 2.0 teaches science, coding