Open Access Week 2016: Open In Action
In 2008, SPARC and its partners in the student community established the International Open Access Week to increase the visibility of research and the impact it has on the…
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Big Data and Its Impact on Academic Publishing
As academic publishing has made the transition from print editions to electronic editions, librarians, facing leaner budgets and an inability to deselect specific low-interest…
Open Access in 2016: Developments and Its Impact
The Open Access Week, a global event promoting open access publishing is now in its ninth year—and all the efforts made during this time to support this initiative seems to have…
Publons: Giving Credit to Peer Reviewers
During the second Peer Review Week in 2016, there were extensve discussions on how the institution of peer review is far from perfect. The problems with peer review in scientific…
The Journal of Brief Ideas Is Making Your Ideas Citable
In this age of information overload, there are several ideas that can be considered innovative or can lead to a new scientific development. Given the extent of information that is…
Kudos Extends Its Reach by Collaborating with Institutions
You may have read our experts' take on the benefits of individual researchers using Kudos. Last year in October 2015, Kudos also launched a new platform called Kudos for…
2016 Nobel Prizes – Congratulations All Laureates!
The Nobel Prize is the most prestigious award given in recognition of academic, cultural, and/or scientific advances. The Nobel prizes in Chemistry, Literature, Peace, Physics, and…
ThinkLab: Startup Wanting to Fix Science
In 2014, fresh out of a successful trading algorithm startup, internet entrepreneur Jesse Spaulding began to think about the academic environment in which science is conducted from…
Sparrho: An Innovative Way to Remain Updated
When Vivian Chan was studying for her PhD in Biochemistry, she encountered a problem that most scientists have confronted: how can you keep yourself updated with the enormous…
Is the Increase in Cost for Subscribing to Academic Journals Justified?
Academic journals are generally subscribed by individual subscribers (researchers, faculty, and industry professionals) as well as institutional subscribers (usually libraries).…
Peer Review Week 2016: Recognition for Review
One of the motivations behind Peer Review Week 2015 was to highlight the amount of work that scientists do as peer reviewers and how vital that work is to the scholarly…
What Is Peer Review Week?
Peer review is a fundamental and irreplaceable part of scholarly communication. However, it is often a role and a process that is overlooked or taken for granted. To recognize the…