Scholarly Publishing
Friday 17 December 2025
- Scholarly Journal Prices: Selected Trends and Comparisons - New Report from LISU - :: Joe Kraus, on the ReedElsevier listserv, writes:I read in the SLA rag, Information Outlook, that the Library and Information Statistics Unit (LISU) of Loughborough University in Leicestershire, UK had written a report -- Scholarly Journal Prices: Selected Trends and... (16:33 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 24 August 2025
- Real-Time Document Request™ (RDR™) Ranking Establishes New Method of Evaluating Scientific Journals - :: Press Release: CAS Science Spotlight Ratings Show Journals' Significance for Scientists Philadelphia, August 23, 2025 - Recording how often a journal's contents are cited in scientific literature has long been the conventional way of measuring the importance of specific... (13:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 9 June 2025
- Reed Elsevier gives in on free research - This may be old news already, but I remembered a few interesting pieces that came out fairly recently regarding institutional repositories. The Elsevier decision seems to be promising news that publishing in high profile journals and providing a reasonable degree... (10:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 28 May 2025
- Electrochemical Journals, AIP's Scitation, Cost-Effectiveness - Commentary by Dana Roth - :: Nearly 40 years ago, in my first library job, I overheard The Electrochemical Society (ECS) disparaged as a 'Neanderthal' society, which might explain the initial popularity of the commercially published Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry (JEC), Electrochimica Acta (ECA) and... (16:22 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 17 May 2025
- Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications: Report of a Symposium - :: The Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications was held on 19-20 May 2003, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC. The conference papers, Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and... (10:48 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 14 May 2025
- Commentary: The Crisis In Scholary Communication, by George Porter - The crisis in scholarly communications is now well into its third decade by many accounts. I was discussing journal cancellations with a faculty member when we touched on Henry Barschal's seminal analysis of commercially and society published journal prices. ">Stanford... (11:42 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 3 May 2025
- Open access could reduce cost of scientific publishing - New report reveals open access could reduce cost of scientific publishing by up to 30 per centThe Wellcome Trust report shows for the first time that the open access model of scientific publishing - where the author of a research... (15:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 27 April 2025
- Arabidopsis Book - George posted the following biology resource to STS-L. Note that the Arabidopsis Book is open access.The Arabidopsis Book is an Open Access project bringing together an encyclopedic description of one of the most heavily studied plant species. Quoting from the... (08:57 | 0 Comments)
Friday 23 April 2025
- Publishing Conference Literature: Print, Online, DVD, CD - Considering the Options - :: Aleteia Greenwood at UBC posed an interesting question on ELDNET-L on April 22:A UBC civil engineering faculty member has asked me a few questions that I am hoping I can ask you all and get your opinions. In August... (10:54 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 7 April 2025
- U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry - Update - :: The latest SPARC E-News has an update on the U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry. The Inquiry has moved into its second stage. The Inquiry was mentioned previously here, here, and here. Hear, hear! (via George... (11:05 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 2 April 2025
- Suber's List of Actions - In the latest SPARC OPen Access Newsletter, Peter Suber announces that that he has put together a very valuable list of "actions" dealing with university library subscriptions and public statements against rising journal costs. The list, which begins in Fall... (09:00 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 20 February 2026
- Wired News: Scientists: Bush Distorts Science - I came across a very interesting read regarding the Bush administration and their influence on the scientific community. The article unmasks the bias of so-called "peer-review" that happens when peers are selected or excluded using criteria based not on merit... (14:46 | 0 Comments)
- Publishers split over response to US trade embargo ruling - The following is from Nature, v429, n6976, p663.Publishers split over response to US trade embargo ruling [WASHINGTON] Iranians struggling to secure free speech at home are facing a fresh set of restrictions from the US government. The US Department of... (13:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 10 February 2026
- MIT Libraries Declines Three-Year Elsevier and Wiley Renewals - :: Another major library system has joined Cornell University Library in not renewing their subscriptions to Elsevier journals. MIT Libraries has announced it will not renew three-year online and print subscription packages from Wiley InterScience and Elsevier Science. Last year,... (13:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 2 February 2026
- Suber, SPARC Open Access Newsletter, 2/4/04 - New issue: SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue #70February 2, 2004 is available now. Of note: an interesting report back on PLoS's first month of publication.... (17:20 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 27 January 2026
- Directory of Open Access Journals - Further to my last posting, for a listing of open access journals in biological sciences, or for that matter, other subject areas of interest, be sure to visit the Directory of Open Access Journals (under the direction of a new... (13:51 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 26 January 2026
- Quantitative Biology at arXiv.org - The following email re: open access materials was posted to STS-L on Friday. I just noticed a new eprint archive at arXiv (formerly xxx.LANL.gov) -- Quantitative Biology. Subject groupings include: # BM - Biomolecules # CB - Cell Behavior #... (14:33 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 16 January 2026
- ISI buys BIOSIS - And the number continues to shrink...Thomson Corp. said yesterday that it had acquired the publishing assets of Philadelphia-based Biological Abstracts Inc. and Biosis, a life-sciences indexing service. Financial terms of the deal, which closed Friday, were not disclosed. The nonprofit... (12:08 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 15 January 2026
- Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and its Implications - :: On May 19-20, 2003, the National Academy of Sciences held the Symposium on Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and its Implications. A number of presentations from that conference are now available for viewing. Geoff reported previously that... (19:27 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 23 December 2025
- OUP and continuous online publication model - :: Back in August we posted about OUP's move towards experimenting with new online publishing model. A few more details have been released. Oxford University Press is pleased to announce that Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) is adopting a continuous online... (09:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
- PLoS Biology -- December Issue Now Out - :: Vol 1(3) is here! Please let your friends and colleagues know that a new issue of PLoS Biology is up and running, and invite them to read it for free at http://www.plosbiology.org. PLoS has just announced [last week] that... (09:18 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 16 December 2025
- BioMed Central launches BMC Medicine and BMC Biology - :: "BioMed Central launched a new pair of Open Access journals – BMC Medicine and BMC Biology – on 1 December. The journals compliment the 57 established specialist titles in the BMC journal series by providing a selective home for... (14:11 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 12 December 2025
- UK Parliamentary Committee to Investigate Pricing and Availability of Scholarly Journals - :: With an increasing academic backlash against yearly skyrocketing prices for scholary journals, a UK parliamentary science and technology committee is preparing to investigate the state of scientific publishing, in the new year.The committee will look at access to journals,... (15:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 10 December 2025
- House of Commons STL Access Inquiry - As posted to Liblicense-L: HOUSE OF COMMONS PRESS NOTICE Committee Office, House of Commons, No. 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA Tel. Nos. 020 7219 2793-2794 (Fax. No. - 0896) email: scitechcom@parliament.uk No. 3 of Session 2003-04, dated 10 December 2003... (16:42 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 1 December 2025
- Neurobiology of Lipids - Peer-reviewed, Open Access - :: Neurobiology of Lipids is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal, published out of Moscow. More information is available here. The editorial board has 32 members, and one can link to each member's articles as indexed in PubMed. :: Today's homepage comes... (10:21 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Saturday 22 November 2025
- Transportation Journal Scores Highest Percent Increase in Total Citations In Engineering - :: The November, 2003, issue of inCites reports that the journal with the largest percent increase in total citations in the field of engineering is Transportation Research Part C – Emerging Technologies.... (15:52 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 17 November 2025
- Cornell and Other Universities to Cancel Elsevier Titles - :: Continuing the previous thread, Information Today has issued an article called "Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles", by Paula J Hane. Subscription costs to scholarly journals continue to rise beyond what academic libraries are able to... (12:26 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Friday 14 November 2025
- Cornell's Statement on its Decision Regarding Elsevier - :: Cornell has put together a web page called "Issues in Scholarly Communication." They describe their predicament with Elsevier and their decision to drop "several hundred" Elsevier journals after not reaching an amicable agreement.... (10:42 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 11 November 2025
- BioOne - Two Years Later - :: BioOne, an "aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals", began operation in April, 2001. In this article, in the v 64 n10, November, 2003 issue of College & Research Libraries News, Heather Joseph and Adrian W Alexander examine how far... (16:52 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Monday 10 November 2025
- SPARC and PLoS Partner to Advocate for Open Access Publishing - Press Release - "SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), an academic and research libraries initiative, today announced its partnership with the Public Library of Science (PLoS), the groundbreaking organization of scientists and physicians committed to making scientific and medical literature freely... (18:37 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Tuesday 28 October 2025
- PLoS Interview - :: Laura Lynch of Creative Commons interviews Michael Eisen about the launch of the new open-access peer-reviewed journal, PLoS Biology.... (10:29 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Thursday 23 October 2025
- Call for Boycott of Cell Press Journals - :: A call for a boycott of Cell Press Journals has been written by two important researchers from UCalifornia San Francisco, Peter Walter and Keith Yamamoto. The call to boycott has made it to the SPARC-OAForum and is being republished... (17:34 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)
Saturday 18 October 2025
- PLoS Biology Makes Major Impact On Its First Day - :: On Oct 13, 2003, the first day of online availability to the world, the new open-access journal PLoS Biology had already had a dramatic impact in scholarly publishing. As reported in The Mercury News, a research article by Duke... (06:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Wednesday 15 October 2025
- PLoS Biology Is In The House, China Is In Space - :: PLoS Biology, "the premier open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science", made its debut yesterday. PLoS "is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public... (05:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)