So, eLife is changing its peer-review process: eLife’s peer-review process is changing. From January 2023, eLife will no longer make accept/reject decisions after peer review. Instead, every preprint sent for…
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A set of European research funders calling itself “Coalition S” has banded together to forbid pure toll-access and hybrid publication for its grantees. The thinkpiece engine is revving up, so…
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The Loon saw a hapless researcher on Twitter today, wondering what to do about a journal that asked them to insert sixty (60!) citations to itself into their manuscript as…
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Projekt DEAL has announced that it is done trying to squeeze an acceptable deal out of Elsevier, at least for now. Elsevier claims not to be done with Projekt DEAL…
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The Loon has seen a number of librarians reacting to the news coming out of the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, California, etc. by psyching themselves out of thinking they could accomplish…
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