Category - Academic Publishing

The FORCE11-COPE Research Data Publishing Ethics Working Group has released a set of flowcharts aimed at promoting best practices around ethical challenges in data publication.

There is a popular Latin phrase, attributed to the Roman poet, Juvenal: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?  It can be translated as “Who guards the guards?”, or “Who watches the watchers?”

Open access (OA) has made significant advancements in research articles. However, comparatively, less attention has been paid to open access books.

We are pleased to announce that the Library has launched an Open Subscription agreement with the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS).

On 25 August 2022, the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) released a memorandum on "Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research"

To support OA publishing, the Library signed a 3-year (2021-2023) transformative agreement with Cambridge University Press (CUP) in late 2020. Under this agreement, all article processing charges (APCs) are waived

This week we introduce the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT), a set of vocabularies for authors to describe their contribution to a research output accurately and in detail.

You worked on a manuscript for months. Now you are looking for a good journal to submit. A paper invitation hits your inbox which seems to be the right fit. What would you do?

How not to get into trouble with problematic research practices such as HARKing (Hypothesizing After the Results are Known) and p-hacking (misuse of data to obtain statistical significance)? Preregistering your research may help.

SciDataCon, part of International Data Week 2022*, will be held on 20-23 June 2022 in Seoul.