funding, science publishing

Scientists are working to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs of sharing.

A funder-driven push for freely accessible scholarly literature has divided the scientific community.

As article processing charges top $5,000 at some research journals, authors and institutions have means of negotiating better deals or finding less expensive options.

While the University Grants Commission’s system prioritizes peer-reviewed papers, experts not involved in the initiative express concern that it could incentivize cheating.

From funding to publishing, academic research needlessly burns through time and money.

Retracting a paper from the scientific literature can lead to fewer citations for related studies.  

The United Kingdom's Wellcome Trust announces that it will begin sanctioning researchers who do not submit manuscripts to the public UK PubMed Central database.

A petition asking for online, readable publication of all government-funded research is making its way to the White House.

In the introduction to the book, author Marc J. Kuchner tells the story of how one scientist used tricks of the marketing trade to save the Endangered Species Act from the political axe.

New legislation would make all federally funded research publicly available within 6 months of publication.