The second edition of the PEERE International Conference is ready and this time it will be an online, free open event. From the 29th of September to the 1st of October, don’t miss the largest virtual meeting on Peer Review. The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: The full programme is …
The annual PubMet conference is nearly here, with the two-day event starting this Wednesday, 16th September, at 10am Central European Time. Sessions across the two days of the event will discuss multi-faceted approaches to scholarly communication, scholarly publishing and assessment from the perspective of those working closely within open access, OA-focussed projects, and those with the goal …
The STEM Training in Ethics of Publication Practices (STEPP) program is a 3-year project supported by funding from the National Science Foundation to conduct research and develop training on the topic of predatory publishing. The project is now in the research phase, and looking to recruit interviewees from a wide range of individuals who are potentially impacted …
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Platform for Responsible Editorial Policies (PREP) is a new initiative and platform which promotes responsible editorial policies for research journals with evidence-informed advice to editors and publishers. There is a general concern about the effectiveness, quality and transparency of the journal peer review system. For decades, several studies have suggested that the peer review system is …
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With the scale of COVID-19 infection and mortality rates increasing rapidly, and many of us becoming increasingly compelled to make changes to lifestyles to adapt to the virus, we thought we would share some important, useful, reliable and veriable evidence-based resources to help keep informed and understand the rapidly changing scientific knowledge base on the …
With the sudden, rapid spread of Coronavirus there has been a concurrent response from the scientific community, to investigate and tackle the illness. As part of these global efforts to address the virus, Dr Rashid A. Chotani has developed this Just in Time Supercourse presentation, in collaboration with University of Pittsburgh and Library of Alexandria, …
Coronavirus lecture – 2019-novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV): Facts & Misconceptions Read More »
A group of authors involved in the PEERE project, lead by Flaminio Squazzoni, including several members from EASE Council and our community, have published a paper in Nature, titled Unlock ways to share data on peer review which calls for “Journals, funders and scholars [to] work together to create an infrastructure to study peer review.” The article combines the …
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January 28, 2020 – Cactus Communications, a global scientific communications company, announced that it has acquired UNSILO, a Denmark-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) company that specializes in text analytics, linguistics, and data science. UNSILO, co-founded by Mads Rydahl and Thomas Laursen, provides AI tools and solutions for publishers to grow their business …
A new comment article in Nature, headed up by lead-author Agnes Grudniewicz, unveils a new consensus-formed definition of predatory publishing, and provides some suggestions of steps to take in the future to tackle the problems developing from the phenomena. The group of 43 participants, consisting of members of industry organisations, society and commercial publishers, research institutes, …
Another step towards defining predatory journals Read More »
Taylor & Francis has released findings of a survey of c.3000 researchers in which they asked about publishing habits and opinions of open access (OA). Although there was strong support for full access to their research (88% of researchers agree or strongly agree that there is value in anyone being able to access their work), few researchers …
