The focus on a narrow set of metrics leads to a lack of diversity in the types of leader and institution that win funding. (11 Jan 2022) Many researchers who are funded from public sources are required to participate in national evaluations of their work. Such assessments are popular with governments because they help to…
(4 Jan 2022) The research-sharing platform arXiv.org now hosts more than 2 million articles. arXiv, stewarded by Cornell Tech, is a free resource for scholars around the world in fields including physics, math and computer science, who use the service to share their own cutting-edge research and read work submitted by others. “These 2 million submissions…
(15 Dec 2021) International Trade Association, ALPSP, has announced the launch of its new, extended training programme for 2022. With new courses recently created in response to member requests, the full training calendar now includes over 30 different topics specifically tailored to those working in scholarly publishing. Additional sessions introduced will focus on Building Strategies…
(20 Dec 2021) News from Retraction Watch: Our project augments this stream of reports about paper mills as we focus on the activities of International Publisher and the papers brokered through 123mi.ru. As part of this project we are curating a database of all the papers and authorship positions that have been advertised on…
(26 Nov 2021) The LIBER Citizen Science Working Group is pleased to announce the publication of the first section of their Citizen Science for Research Libraries Guide, a four-part book series. The guide is designed to be a practical toolbox to help run a citizen science project. It has been put together from contributions by members of the…
(21 Dec 2021) Just before a study appears in any of ten journals published by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), it undergoes an unusual extra check. Since January 2021, the AACR has been using artificial intelligence (AI) software on all manuscripts it has provisionally accepted after peer review. The aim is to automatically…
(7 Dec 2021) Retraction Watch reports that Tanvir Ahmed, a postdoc at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, says this year has seen a rise in news stories— for example from Bangladesh, Kashmir, and Nigeria — reporting so-called predatory rankings. These come to light due to the lack of knowledge about rankings at universities and the media in certain…
(27 Oct 2021) The Dutch consortium of university libraries and the National library of the Netherlands (UKB) together with the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) and the Dutch Research Council (NWO), has published a practical guide on preprints. Preprints are [academic] manuscripts that have not been peer-reviewed or published in a traditional publishing…
(25 Oct 2021) As libraries and research offices evolve with the complex and competitive demands of the research enterprise, tensions over their respective roles have become apparent in at least two areas: open access (OA) and data management. The issue came into the spotlight in August as it emerged that the Australian Research Council (ARC)…
(19 Oct 2021) STM (the Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers) has today published the latest edition of ‘The STM Report’, the organization’s comprehensive overview of the scientific and scholarly publishing market. The revised report, which adopts a new supplement format to be issued in regular thematic updates, reveals significant publisher-driven growth in Open…