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The US Research Works Act would allow publishers to line their pockets by locking publicly funded research behind paywalls

Opening up access to academic research will put more data and power in the hands of the people who pay for it

ACS Mobile provides readers with a searchable, multi-journal, up-to-the-minute live stream of new peer-reviewed research content (Articles ASAPSM) published across the Society's preeminent portfolio of scholarly research journals, including the flagship Journal of the American Chemical Society.

University wants scientists to make their research open access and resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls

US scientists are significantly more likely to publish fake research than scientists from elsewhere, finds a trawl of officially withdrawn (retracted) studies, published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

The three different impact metrics are all based on methodologies developed by external bibliometricians and use Scopus as the data source. Scopus is the largest citation database of peer-reviewed literature and features tools to track, analyze and visualize research output. Via this website, the three journal metrics are provided free of charge.

I have encountered 3 cases of plagiarism as editor of the Journal of Korean Medical Science (JKMS). The first one was copying figures from a JKMS article without citation, the second was submission of a copied manuscript of a published article to JKMS, and the third was publishing a copied JKMS article in another journal. The first and third cases violated copyrights of JKMS, but the violating journals made no action on the misconduct. The second and third cases were slightly modified copies of the source articles but similarity check by the Crosscheck could not identify the text overlap initially and after one year reported 96% overlap for the second case. The similarity of the third case was reported 3%. The Crosscheck must upgrade its system for better reliable screening of text plagiarism. The copy of the second case was committed by a corrupt Chinese editing company and also by some unethical researchers. In conclusion, plagiarism still threatens the trustworthiness of the publishing enterprises and is a cumbersome burden for editors of scholarly journals. We require a better system to increase the vigilance and to prevent the misconduct.

Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a video journal for biological research.

Ale: este es un caso de una revista que publica solo videos, es muy innovadora, porque en su area el video es mil veces mas explicativo que un articulo

Developing Open Access Electronic Journals: A Practical Guide is is to my knowledge the first comprehensive book on creating an open access (OA) journal. Thousands of OA journals have been developed over the last 15 years and are becoming an important means of disseminating research and scholarship. While creating a new OA journal need not be difficult, it takes a wealth of specialized knowledge that most people interested in creating such journals lack. The goal of the book is to provide the essential information needed and guide someone through the process of designing and operating a successful OA journal.

The days when scientists used to go to the library to manually look for journal articles of their interest are long gone. Looking through dozens of physical journals or consulting literature overviews in book format became obsolete with the dawn of the electronic era and the availability of searchable online listings of all that journal information. Nowadays more than 400 online Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) services provide these search capabilities for the various disciplines and research areas.

To be recognized as an authoritative, high-quality source of information, a journal must be widely available. Indexing and abstracting services facilitate the broadest dissemination of information by pointing researchers to articles that are relevant to the field. Once a journal is launched and has a track record of timely publication and solid content, it is appropriate to contact indexing and abstracting services for consideration.

There are many different criteria that you can use when choosing or evaluating sources. One method is the *CRAAP test.  Currency Here, you assess the timeliness of the information. Look for when the resource was created or last updated. You'll also want to ask yourself if you need current information. Relevance You should also ask yourself if the information meets your needs. Does it answer your research question? Authority This is where you ask who is responsible for the information. Who wrote and published the information? What are the author and publisher's credentials? Accuracy You want to use only information that is reliable, truthful and correct. Is the information supported by evidence? Does the author use an unbiased, neutral tone? Purpose You should figure out why the information exists. Try to focus on information that is intended to inform, not mislead or persuade. Examine the author's intentions, assumptions and biases.

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Will the move to Open access, Open peer review and the Plos one "no selection bias policy" lead to the downfall of the impact factor of journals? Will we finally move on to use the citation index of actual papers as the golden standard for academic performance?