cOAlition S on Journal-Independent Peer Review

I missed this important statement from cOAlition S back in June: Scientific publishing is evolving rapidly. A number of initiatives have moved away from the notion that peer-reviewed articles must be published in traditional Open Access journals or platforms. They...

‘Three false starts on the road to open social science’

Patrick Dunleavy, writing for the LSE Impact blog: Other US-based promoters of open science, like the Centre for Open Science, also cover mainly the quantitative disciplines in social sciences (like psychology and health studies). Yet COS’s somewhat disturbing...

‘A Major Paradox in the Dissemination of Science’

Marcio Rodrigues and his Brazilian colleagues, in a recent commentary, noting that funded researchers in Brazil have roughly $2,000 a year to conduct their studies: A median cost of APCs equal to USD 2,600 was recently estimated. However, APCs can cost more than USD...