Open-access journals are reaching the same quality levels as their subscription counterparts.
Open-access journals are reaching the same quality levels as their subscription counterparts.
Farmed salmon may have more in common with their more expensive wild-caught counterparts than consumers are led to believe.
Life scientists are increasingly posting manuscripts to the preprint server, joining the ranks of thousands of physicists.
August 1, 2012
Meet some of the people featured in the August 2012 issue of The Scientist.
Death breeds life in the world’s most diverse and abundant group of animals.
At age 16, Alexandra Sourakov has her first scientific publication, on the foraging behavior of butterflies.
Grading journals on how well they share information with readers will help deliver accountability to an industry that often lacks it.
Overzealous open-access advocates are creating an exploitative environment, threatening the credibility of scholarly publishing.
Science publishing is locked in an evolutionary arms race as it edges further into the digital age.
As we stand on the brink of a new scientific age, how researchers should best communicate their findings and innovations is hotly debated in the publishing trenches.