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Here's one solution for the reproducibility crisis in scientific research.
We talk a lot about open access here, but one thing we haven’t delved into as much as we could is the question of the quality of the research. We have plenty of data on the attention the world’s academics are paying to research outputs (watch this space for more on this) but we haven’t…
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An interview with the founders of PeerJ, an innovative new academic publishing startup.
We’re very excited to announce today the launch of PeerJ, a fascinating new experiment to find an open access business model which improves upon accessibility, submission time, and the peer review mechanism. One reason we’re excited is that Mendeley and PeerJ share quite a bit of common history. Our former research director, Jason Hoyt, is…
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Support free access to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research. #OAMonday
At Mendeley, we believe in the power of the Internet to foster innovation, research, and education. We have worked with colleagues in the library, publishing, research, student, university, epatient, and advocacy communities to develop tools and promote policies that will make research more efficient so that we can address the great challenges of our time.…
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On sharing research and the value of peer-review: Mendeley's response to #SOPA and the Research Works Act.
UPDATE: The RFIs have now been posted and there’s a petition opposing the RWA on whitehouse.gov. The US White House Office of Science and Technology Policy recently issued a Request for Information on their existing policy requiring some federally-funded work to be submitted to Pubmed Central, where it’s freely accessible to the public. We were…
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Guest post: Jan Velterop – Putting the public back in publication.
There’s a great discussion that’s been going on over the past couple weeks on the LIBLICENSE-L mailing list. I particularly liked what one of the participants, Jan Velterop (CEO, Acqknowledge) had to say, so I asked him if he would like to contribute a guest post and he graciously agreed.
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