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English language journals are rapidly being launched in China by Chinese universities and publishers, according to The Publishers Association’s new report PA Market…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- August 25, 2016
Did you know about these trends in scholarly communication industry? Highlights from 2018 STM report
Did you know that in 2018, around 3 million articles were published? That the accessibility to content is now at its record high today? The scholarly communication…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 9, 2018
Sci-Hub, the site that provides free access to pirated academic papers, hit a bumpy road last year when it was ordered to pay damages worth $15 million to Elsevier and…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- February 27, 2018
Here, I share some personal observations and thoughts while attending the Eighth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication in Chicago, which…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- September 21, 2017
Unhappy with the way science is being governed in the country, Chilean researchers resorted to street protests and published an open letter that criticized the…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- November 20, 2015
The Netherlands’ largest research funding agency, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), has announced the launch of a €3 million grants programme…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- July 22, 2016
A recent study suggests that the first author of a paper must be held accountable if evidence of misconduct is found in the paper. Academics argue this approach may not…
- Fatima Qureshi
- May 24, 2019
With more than 2.5 million new research articles published annually, it has become increasingly important to find ways to make research findings stand out. Universities…
- Neha Mirchandani
- December 21, 2017
A recently published paper titled “Trends and comparison of female first authorship in high impact medical journals: observational study (1994-2014)” reported that…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- March 8, 2016
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) announced that it has delisted about 3,300 titles in order to ensure that questionable and inactive publishers do not find…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- May 11, 2016