(11 Mar 2025) We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openRxiv ensures that researchers worldwide can continue to share discoveries rapidly and openly. With a researcher-led governance model, openRxiv strengthens the foundation of preprint sharing, empowering…
(19 Mar 2025) The CAS Journal Ranking Team releases Early Warning Journal List 2025(EWL)! The 2025 edition of the EWL targets two key concerns: 1) Academic misconduct that jeopardizes the integrity of the scientific research ecosystem, including practices like Citation Manipulation and operation of Paper Mills; 2) Inappropriate actions that hinder the global dissemination of specific…
(19 Feb 2025) The summer of 2023 was not a good time for AI detectors. OpenAI famously recalled its AI detector, saying it wasn’t effective. A study by the Washington Post found serious gaps in the efficacy of AI detection systems, and a similar study by academic researchers found similar issues. Things weren’t looking significantly better…
(18 Feb 2025) IOI (Invest in Open Infrastructure) team has been conducting research aimed at developing an understanding of the current needs and dependencies in the research software ecosystem and uncovering future opportunities to advance its sustainability and resilience. This research, sponsored by the Sloan Foundation, aimed at understanding factors that might help the research…
(20 Feb 2025) Shady companies have long given unscrupulous scientists the opportunity to buy authorship of papers—a form of academic fraud. But according to a draft paper posted online today and scheduled to appear in the International Journal for Educational Integrity, these outfits have now diversified into selling intellectual property rights, too. Over the past 2 years, these…
(31 Jan 2025) Sage has retracted 416 articles from the Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS), which had a mass retraction of over 450 papers last August. Before the mass retraction last year, Sage paused publication of new articles from the journal, which it acquired when it bought IOS Press in 2023. The journal is now accepting new…
Study by two Spanish researchers exposes Oxbridge Publishing House’s ‘invasion’ of the editorial industry (31 Jan 2025) A shady business network apparently run by Pakistani and Indonesian citizens from a mansion on the outskirts of Birmingham, United Kingdom, has launched an attack on the Spanish scientific journal industry. The group is buying up long-standing…
(3 Feb 2025) cOAlition S has announced that it will discontinue the Journal Comparison Service (JCS), effective from 30 April 2025. The JCS was launched in September 2022 to support the Plan S principle that Open Access fees should be transparent and commensurate with the publishers’ services. It was developed following detailed consultations with librarians, publishers,…
From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than they’ve had in centuries. (30 Dec 2024) In October 2023, an e-mail pinged onto Federica Nicolardi’s phone with an image that would transform her research forever. It showed a fragment of a papyrus scroll that had been…
(30 Dec 2024) At LibraryLearningSpace.com, we are dedicated to sharing what’s happening in the library and academic publishing world by curating news from across the globe. Looking back at 2024, the most viewed and frequently published topics were artificial intelligence (AI), research integrity, and our column of Ruth’s Rankings. AI’s Growing Role in Research …