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Funding-agency policies mandating that scientific papers and data are made publicly available have helped to drive the adoption of...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 13, 2022
- 1 min
Citation data are now open, but that’s far from enough
A few years ago, researchers would find considerable hurdles when attempting to study citation patterns to illuminate trends in a field,...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 23, 2022
- 1 min
Author makes popular chemistry textbook free after discovering copyright loophole
The author of a popular organic chemistry textbook is making it freely available to students after learning about a loophole in his...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 8, 2022
- 1 min
Plan P: Can institutions facilitate open access?
Some universities in the United States and United Kingdom are eyeing a scheme, due to be rolled out in 2022, that could see them pay...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 17, 2022
- 1 min
ResearchGate responsible for illegal content on its site, German court rules
The popular academic social networking site ResearchGate is appealing a 31 January ruling by a district court in Munich, Germany, which...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 24, 2022
- 1 min
Massive open index of scholarly papers launches
An ambitious free index of more than 200 million scientific documents that catalogues publication sources, author information and...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 25, 2021
- 1 min
The blurred line of responsibility between research offices and libraries
As libraries and research offices evolve with the complex and competitive demands of the research enterprise, tensions over their...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 12, 2021
- 1 min
Q&A: Australia’s chief scientist proposes a centralized national plan for open access
Australia lags behind comparable research-intensive countries in Europe in the development of open-access policies, according to a recent...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 12, 2021
- 1 min
Australian institutions lag behind on open access adoption
Only half of Australia’s 40 universities have a formal policy on open access (OA), and the policies are vague and ineffectual, according...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 20, 2021
- 1 min
Chemists react to UK umbrella funding body’s new open access mandate
British umbrella funding agency UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) announced its long-awaited open access policy at a virtual roundtable...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 18, 2020
- 1 min
Nature journals debut open-access models
Last month publishing giant Springer Nature announced that in January 2021 many of its Nature-branded journals will start offering...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 27, 2020
- 1 min
Nature journals set to offer all authors open access route in 2021 – for a price
In a significant policy shift, Nature and its 32 sister journals will give authors the chance to make their work free to read immediately...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 9, 2020
- 1 min
This tool is saving universities millions of dollars in journal subscriptions
In April, when the State University of New York (SUNY) system canceled a big subscription deal with Dutch publishing giant Elsevier in...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 13, 2020
- 1 min
Predatory-journal papers have little scientific impact
Papers published in ‘predatory’ journals attract little attention from scientists, and get cited much less than those in reputable...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jun 28, 2019
- 1 min
Concerns remain over European open-access proposal
On 30 May, many pay-to-read academic publishers breathed a sigh of relief. That day the funding agencies spearheading Plan S decided to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 18, 2019
- 1 min
Study quantifies the growing traction of open access
Researchers worldwide are taking an average of 472 days less to post their studies in online repositories due to mandates from research...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 14, 2019
- 1 min
Open-access row prompts editorial board of Elsevier journal to resign
The editorial board of an influential scientometrics journal — the Journal of Informetrics — has resigned in protest over the open-access...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Oct 1, 2018
- 1 min
Science’s Quality-Control Process Gets a Makeover
A series of reports published last month shed light on how fatigued researchers are from conducting peer review on each others’ work....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 5, 2018
- 1 min
Documentary puts lens on the open-access movement upending scientific publishing
Jason Schmitt was working at Atlantic Records when the online site Napster disrupted the music industry by making copyrighted songs...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 13, 2018
- 1 min
Researchers celebrate rejection of controversial copyright policy
Early-career researchers are pleased at European leaders’ rejection of a copyright policy that would have introduced restrictions to...
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