Everyone agrees that the peer review process can never be perfect or foolproof, but that shouldn’t stop us from striving to improve and maintaining scientific integrity. David Stuart’s piece in ‘Research Information’ [ read more ]

There’s been plenty to chew over in the world of scholarly publishing recently – check out these articles: A great opinion piece by Elliott Lumb, the founder of PeerRef, in ‘Research Information’ [ read more ]

There is a double helping of discussion and guidance being served up in ‘The Scholarly Kitchen’, regarding the application of inclusive language in scholarly publishing. Two new resources have recently been released [ read more ]

Making best use of social media to promote research articles in learned journals can no longer be considered an afterthought – it’s an activity that now requires strategic planning for optimal timing [ read more ]

When there’s so much searchable literature readily available, do you ever wonder how much of it is truly original? A paper in ‘Scientific Data’ by Lukas Gienapp, et al. describes the development, [ read more ]

In the latest edition of ‘The Scholarly Kitchen’, Erika Pastrana and Simon Adar contemplate the barriers that appear to remain to authors in opting for open access publication. They highlight research that [ read more ]