By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Deceptive Publishing: Why We Need a Blacklist, and Some Suggestions on How to Do It Right
Rick Anderson, The Scholarly Kitchen, 2015/08/18
One of the weaknesses of Gold Open Access publishing (that's the model where open access is provided by a publisher) has been the rise of predatory publishing, where commercial enterprises set up fake journals with the idea of scamming authors or institutions into paying publication fees. More...
In this course, we will familiarize ourselves with state-of-the-art online publishing techniques and relevant cultural issues. This entails both a technical and theoretical component: hands-on practice with online publishing tools are balanced by a meaningful theoretical reflection on the phenomena discussed. More...
Slides from a workshop delivered on 8th July 2013 at Leeds Metropolitan University. The session, run by the Centre of Learning & Teaching, asked attendees to consider what types of resources they currently produce, where they are stored and how they are made available to their students, typically via the institutional VLE. More...
Publicación en línea. Revista de Educación a Distancia (Número 45)
Validación de requisitos funcionales de un Laboratorio Virtual Remoto como apoyo al blended learning. More...
IxD&A, the International Journal on Interaction Design & Architecture(s), has just made available online its issue number 24, “Peer-to-Peer Exchange and the Sharing Economy: Analysis, Designs, and Implications”. More...
Par Institut Montaigne. Découvrez les articles qui ont été les plus lus sur notre site depuis le début de l’année.
Le 22 janvier dernier, le gouvernement réaffirmait sa volonté de donner la "priorité au primaire" ; la ministre de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche annonçait alors onze mesures "pour une grande mobilisation de l'École pour les valeurs de la République". Voir l'article...
By Paul Jump for Times Higher Education. “A double helix? Bit speculative.”
“I regret to say that we cannot offer publication at this time. While your model is very appealing, referee three finds that it is somewhat speculative and premature for publication.”
No doubt most scientists have been on the receiving end of similar comments from journal editors, but surely Francis Crick and James Watson’s landmark 1953 papers on the structure of DNA would be immune to such quibbles?
Not so, according to Ronald Vale, professor and vice chair of the department of cellular and molecular pharmacology at the University of California at San Francisco, who argues that the University of Cambridge pair's research would have been knocked back by Nature if they submitted their work today.
In a paper recently posted on the bioRxiv preprint service, Vale said that in the past 30 years there has been an estimated fourfold increase in the amount of data required by major journals, largely because of the increased competition to publish in them. Read more...
By Melissa Davey. In the wake of editor-in-chief Stephen Leeder’s sacking from the Medical Journal of Australia, academics are challenging the control of a select group of publishing houses over scientific journals. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has launched a new Scopus module that will provide metrics for articles indexed in Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. More...
By Stefanie Botelho. Led by vice chancellors, Dutch universities have recently announced plans for a country-wide boycott of the academic publisher Elsevier. This boycott has the potential to be a significant game changer in the relationship between the research community and the world’s largest academic publisher. More...
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