(8 Oct 2021) Gerald R. Beasley, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University, has taken a keen interest in exploring and advocating for approaches that academic libraries can take to advance the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and has written particularly about the intersection of the UN’s goals and those of the open…
(16 Sep 2021) Cabells – a US-based information services company – in collaboration with the SDG Dashboard at Saint Joseph’s University – a leading Jesuit Catholic university in Philadelphia – is today launching the SDG Impact Intensity™ journal rating, a pilot study which aims to shift the perspective away from narrow interpretations of journal quality to…
(14 Oct 2021) Vertigo Ventures Ltd. announced today the result of Impact Landscape Survey 2021. The report delves into global perspectives on impact, primarily drawn from academics in Australia and the UK, covering areas such as prioritisation of research impact, progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target of 2030, and recognition of research…
(2 Oct 2021) If you are interested in Think.Check.Submit. and would like to provide strategic advice to the Think.Check.Submit committee, please get in touch. We welcome members from our global community of researchers, librarians and funders. Please contact us providing details about your role and why you would like to help. The announcement is…
(22 Sep 2021) Dave Davis looked at the role of peer review in scholarly and scientific publishing, and the critically important “quality assurance”-style value it brings to the process. In this following article, he is focusing on the “before”, “in process” and “final” versions of articles, which is to say, preprints, postprints, and the “versions…
(21 Sep 2021) Retraction Watch readers are likely familiar with the varied — and often unsatisfying — responses of journals to scientific sleuthing that uncovers potential problems with published images. Some editors take the issues seriously, even hiring staff to respond to allegations and vet manuscripts before publication. Some, however, take years to handle the allegations, or ignore them altogether.…
(20 Sep 2021) Librarians should be given more support and credit for their research contributions, which should be costed into grant proposals, according to Research Libraries UK (RLUK), a consortium of research libraries in the UK and Ireland. A new report commissioned by RLUK and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) says libraries are…
(7 Sep 2021) From Retraction Watch: Two years ago, we reported on a website based in Russia that claimed to have brokered authorships for more than 10,000 researchers. (Apparently, neither our coverage nor a cease-and-desist letter from Clarivate Analytics had any effect on the site’s operations.) And now, we bring you news of what…
(31 Aug 2021) The ORCID DE Monitor is a publicly funded tool that analyzes the use of ORCID iDs in the scientific community. Developed by the ORCID DE research project, the ORCID DE Monitor both measures and contributes to ORCID adoption. The ORCID DE Monitor currently provides a cartographic representation of the occurrence of ORCID iDs…
(6 Sept 2021) Cabells’ Predatory Reports database recently surpassed 15,000 individual predatory journal entries. This represents a nearly fourfold increase in the number of predatory journals listed since the resource launched in 2017 with 4,000 titles, showing consistent growth to keep pace with the ever-expanding universe of predatory publishing operators. Cabells’ team of journal evaluation experts…