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Start-up sees data analytics as information overload cure for researchers, publishers

There are more than 34,000 scientific, medical and technical peer-reviewed scholarly journals in the world. They publish nearly 2.5 million articles a year — about an article every 13 seconds. In a...

The pressure to publish pushes down quality : Nature News & Comment

What if more is bad? In 1963, the physicist and historian of science Derek de Solla Price looked at growth trends in the research enterprise and saw the threat of“scientific...

Watch this space – the first OSI workshop | Unlocking Research

It was always an ambitious project – trying to gather 250 high level delegates from all aspects of the scholarly communication process with the goal of better communication and idea...

Placing Authors at the Center of the Scientific Endeavor

PLOS is developing a new submission system to enhance the publishing experience for our community of editors, authors and reviewers. Why are we doing this? The linear, step-by-step process of...

Economic thoughts about “gold” open access

There is increasing support in the scholarly communications community for “flipping” the standard journal publishing model from subscription-based to “gold” open access, which is to say a system supported by...

Tutorial 5: Information & Society

Where are we going will all this? Why is it important in the first place? The following items focus mostly on the science side of these questions. There is some...

Facilitation training

A customized workgroup facilitation training webinar for OSI2016 delegates will be presented next Wednesday, April 13th from 9:00-10:30 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-07:00). This course will be conducted by Brad...

Updates

Updates According to the ticking clock on the OSI website’s home page, OSI2016 is only 16 days away! Here are the latest updates in order from highest priority to lowest...

Tutorial 4: Evolving Open Solutions

The “evolving open” topic covers a lot of ground, much of which has been already discussed in previous tutorials. The following items are intended to fill in some of the...

Reminders

Reminders Remember to reserve your hotel room by next week! The official cutoff date is March 29th, after which time any remaining space in the hotel will be released to...
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