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The Annals of Improbable Research, a science humor magazine, announced on September 22, the winners of the 2016 Ig Nobel Prizes. Since 1991, these prizes honor the most…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- September 23, 2016
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced the launch of a new content sharing initiative that claims to provide free read-only access to articles that were previously…
- Kakoli Majumder
- December 26, 2014
A successful open access publishing company Frontiers has stirred a controversy over editorial independence. 31 editors of two of its journals have accused the company…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- May 23, 2015
The identity of the founders of PubPeer, the popular and controversial post-publication peer review website, was until recently shrouded in mystery. However, the…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- September 3, 2015
On Dec 21, Elsevier announced that it is in the process of retracting 26 papers across six of its journals due to peer review manipulation and authorship irregularities…
- Kakoli Majumder
- December 22, 2017
Recognizing the moral and ethical responsibilities of researchers and the need to promote clinical trial transparency, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- April 21, 2015
The library of National Taiwan University (NTU) published a notice on its website saying that from 2017, it planned to discontinue its subscriptions to Elsevier’s…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- December 8, 2016
China, one of the the leading contributors to global scientific output and research, has joined the shift to open access. The National Natural Science Foundation of…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- May 20, 2014
The 2015 Abel Prize was awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters to two prominent mathematicians: John Nash and Louis Nirenberg. The Abel Prize,…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- March 27, 2015
Elsevier, the largest science journal publisher, has announced that it is preparing to launch an open-access journal this year in collaboration with the research…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- February 5, 2015