Researchfish teams up with F1000
27 January 2017
Researchfish, a platform for reporting of research outcomes and impact tracking, has announced a partnership with F1000
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Stopping the rot
27 January 2017
Don’t let your research articles waste away on readers’ hard drives, implores Alexander Naydenov
Fighting misinformation
27 January 2017
When it comes to fake news, nobody is talking about the importance of copyright, writes Roy Kaufman
In praise of graph databases
17 January 2017
Emil Eifrem looks at how researchers can generate insights from vast datasets with the fast-emerging SQL alternative
Digital Science takes stake in Peerwith
16 January 2017
Technology software company Digital Science has invested in Peerwith – a marketplace for author services, matching academics seeking support for their work with experts who can provide services to increase the impact of their work
Research careers surge in popularity in Japan
9 January 2017
A career in research has surged in popularity among Japanese school boys – even if their female counterparts have not yet been attracted to the vocation is similar numbers
New SVP for Cambridge University Press
5 January 2017
Cambridge University Press has appointed Brigitte Shull as senior vice president for academic publishing in the Americas
Ensuring data accuracy in research organisations
3 January 2017
Recently, it transpired that 20 per cent of academic papers on gene research that are based on data collated in Excel spreadsheets have errors, writes Joe Galletta
Figshare teams up with SpringerNature
16 December 2016
Figshare, an online digital repository for academic research, has teamed up with Springer Nature to support BioMed Central and SpringerOpen authors in openly sharing their supplementary data.
Figshare is now hosting additional files from more than 300 BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals. This new service to authors and readers is aimed at:
Independent publishing: the next big thing?
13 December 2016
Broken pact in scholarly communication motivates shifting locus of control, writes Daniel Berze
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