Recently the worst thing happened. We heard of two articles, from the same author, rejected in two Elsevier journals because they were too similar to their thesis. We’ve strongly argued…
Category: academic mumbles
A journal has asked you to make your data publicly available as you submit your article. This is a guide to how you can meet that requirement, not get your…
NB – at the time of writing I didn’t realise that Chealsye worked for Ubiquity. They are cool though. aa As the inevitable occurs and Open Access becomes the norm,…
I promised that I would update this blog with a more accurate figure of Elsevier’s profit from scholarly communications. It seems that NZD$1,712,706,007.83[1] (1.7 Billion New Zealand dollars) is a…
The following tweet was sent in response to my previous post by Tom Reller, Elsevier, @TomReller Incorrect. That’s the number for the parent company – 4 total businesses, not just…
As I wrote earlier, I’ve been asked to do short reports on the reputability of various journals and publishers – and this has been picking up as the publishing season…
An increasingly fun part of my job is assessing journals for their reputability. Here’s a quick report I did for a cow-orker recently, asking about the rather interesting “International Journal…
I’ve written about piracy in scholarly communication before, and the two best heard of pirates, Research Gate and Academia.edu are slowly withering under attacks to their business model. Both sites…
Blacklists bad, thinking good. Cabell’s has launched a successor to Beall’s List – a new blacklist of ‘predatory publishers’. I can’t comment on it in any detail because its subscription…