Open science is important, but it is also hard. Unfortunately, 'hard' has often meant that scientific quality checks are both slow and inadequate, falling in an unsatisfactory middle ground between two opposing goals
If you’ve paid a recent visit to Taylor & Francis Online you’ll have noticed a very different look and feel for the published articles you’re reading.
Scopus delivers a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. As the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books and conference proceedings, Scopus has intuitive tools that allow you to track, analyse and visualise research.
CABI has launched a horticultural science internet resource covering tropical, subtropical and temperate crops and regions
RCNi Learning is a brand new interactive online learning resource designed to help nursing students prepare for clinical practice. It consists of 135 modules (which will grow to 185 next month), covering 43 topics including communication, cancer, acute care, wound care, mental health and many more.
Global Health and CAB Abstracts, both produced by CABI, are two of the world's most definitive bibliographic scientific research databases covering the fields of agriculture, environmental sciences and public health.
NPJ Clean Water, a new open access research journal dedicated to solving the global challenge of ensuring clean water supplies, will be published by Nature Publishing Group in partnership with King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Elsevier has launched the next version of Pathway Studio Web, which it says will enable researchers to more quickly understand the underlying biology of disease
EBSCO Information Services has introduced an information resource for researchers in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries
Elsevier has announced the launch of a new module in PharmaPendium, its database of drug approval documents and extracted data to inform critical drug development decisions
Antonia Seymour, chief executive at IOP Publishing, and Andrew Barker, director of library services and learning development at Lancaster University, talk about hybrid working and re-thinking how we work
David Stuart writes: are new ways of measuring research are providing a more realistic picture of scholarly communication?
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Charlie Rapple
Kudos co-founder Charlie Rapple explains her passion for accelerating the dissemination – and impact – of science
Sowmya Swaminathan
Sowmya Swaminathan discusses the implications for publishers in helping to foster open research practices
Nandita Quaderi
Nandita Quaderi explains how Covid-19 continues to affect the citation network, and introduces a new kind of citation distortion
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere outlines how researchers in sub-Saharan countries are being hamstrung by economics
Helen Lippell
Helen Lippell explains why organisations should learn more about taxonomies, ontologies and metadata - and describes her love of a good quiz
Mark Hahnel
Figshare founder Mark Hahnel describes the company's beginnings and raison d’être – and his wider hopes for scholarly communications
Miriam Maus
If scientists are successful, we are successful, writes Miriam Maus, publishing director at IOP Publishing
