Dalmeet Singh Chawla
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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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 17, 2018
- 1 min
Most researchers have disclosed their results before publication
Over two thirds of researchers have released the results of at least one study they authored before the findings were formally published....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 16, 2018
- 1 min
The undercover academic keeping tabs on ‘predatory’ publishing
When librarian Jeffrey Beall shut down his controversial blog listing potentially ‘predatory’ scholarly publishers and journals last...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 25, 2018
- 1 min
Sub-Saharan nations lead the way in open access
Academics in Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia publish a higher share of their research under an open access licence than scholars in many...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 21, 2017
- 1 min
Online tools enable unprecedented access to science research
This year has been an interesting one in the world of scholarly publishing. It has seen lawsuits against websites illegally or illicitly...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Nov 14, 2017
- 1 min
Need a paper? Get a plug-in
A collection of web-browser plug-ins that trawl the web to find scholarly papers is making the scholarly literature more discoverable....
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Sep 20, 2017
- 1 min
Publishers go after networking site for illicit sharing of journal papers
A major scientific publishing group is taking aim at a social networking site for allowing researchers to illegally post copies of their...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 7, 2017
- 1 min
Half of papers searched for online are free to read
Almost half of the scholarly papers that people attempt to access online are now freely and legally available, according to a huge study...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Aug 3, 2017
- 1 min
Over 90% of chemistry literature freely available at pirate site
More than 92% of chemistry journal papers – most of which are paywalled – are available for free from pirate site Sci-Hub, an analysis...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jul 5, 2017
- 1 min
American Chemical Society files lawsuit against pirate site
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has filed a lawsuit against a website that illegally bypasses paywalls to provide free access to...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- May 31, 2017
- 1 min
Website Flags Wrongly Paywalled Papers
A watchdog site calling out academic publishers for incorrectly charging readers for open access papers is gaining momentum. The full...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 4, 2017
- 1 min
Unpaywall finds free versions of paywalled papers
An online widget that trawls the Internet searching for free-to-read versions of paywalled papers has been installed more than 10,000...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Feb 15, 2017
- 1 min
Gates Foundation strikes deal to allow its researchers to publish in Science journals
An unusual and perhaps precedent-setting deal will enable researchers funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to comply with a...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 17, 2017
- 1 min
Mystery as controversial list of predatory publishers disappears
In a surprising turn of events, librarian Jeffrey Beall has removed his lists of predatory publishers and journals for "personal...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Mar 10, 2016
- 1 min
Web widget nudges scientists to share their data
A new web-based tool that promises to assist its users in requesting scientific data from authors of research papers launched in beta...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Apr 3, 2015
- 1 min
Need cash? Publish your paper in the MalariaWorld Journal
The MalariaWorld Journal, a small open acess publication based in the Netherlands, is establishing what they call "open access 3.0",...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 12, 2015
- 1 min
New open-access journal plans to pay peer reviewers
A new open access journal, Collabra, being launched in March 2015 by the University of California Press, aims to pay peer reviewers and...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Dec 30, 2014
- 1 min
India’s major science funders join open-access push
Two major funders of scientific research, the departments of Biotechnology and Science & Technology, of India's Ministry of Science and...
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Dalmeet Singh Chawla
- Jan 16, 2014
- 1 min
Openness, Closedness or Both?
The benefits of open science are there for the world to see with a recent study highlighting that papers published between 2000-2009 with...
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