Life can be overwhelming. We are all worried, stressed or out of control at some point. Whether you’re struggling with mental health issues or just need an outlet for your thoughts, guided journaling can help. Of course, keeping a journal is not a substitute for professional help. Still, it canRead More →
Journals that charge high publication fees but offer few editorial services are considered “predatory”.Credit: Getty Widely Used Academic Database Scopus Hosts Articles From Over 300 Potentially ‘Predatory’ Journals That Have Questionable Publishing Practices, Analysis Finds1. Together, these titles contributed to over 160,000 articles over three years, or nearly 3% ofRead More →
Weekly News Collection January 19, 2021 – In addition to this week’s NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers weekly news summaries that feature the latest product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information today.Read More →
Science and its sister journals will test a new green open access policy for certain researchers supported by the Plan S donor group.Credit: Loïc Venance / AFP / Getty In a move towards open access, the publisher of Science will begin to allow certain authors who publish in its high-profileRead More →
Soon you will be able to customize the Windows 10 taskbar with personalized news, weather, and other interests. Microsoft Windows 10’s taskbar is about to get more personalized. Microsoft is on Wednesday deployment of a feature for Windows Insiders called News & Interest, providing quick access to a feed ofRead More →
Nature and 32 other subscription titles from the Nature family will offer an open access edition from 2021.Credit: Nature Publisher Springer Nature has announced how scientists can make their papers in its most selective titles free to read as soon as they are published – as part of a long-awaitedRead More →
The study does not analyze why these specific journals disappeared, nor their quality, but it did find that more than 50% of them had a university affiliation. Regarding topics, more than 50% of the journals that disappeared were in the social sciences and humanities, although health, physical sciences, mathematics andRead More →
Scholarly journals are meant to provide a lasting record of science. But over the past two decades, 176 open-access journals – and many of the articles published in them – have disappeared from the Internet, according to an analysis published on August 27.1. “There shouldn’t really be any degradation orRead More →
Twitter today announcement an upcoming addition to its suite of mobile notifications. Namely, it will soon offer users personalized updates, generated according to their interests. Currently, Twitter offers news notifications, for those who want to be kept up to date with what’s going on in the world. Now the companyRead More →
Google, perhaps more than any other tech giant, knows a lot about you. Your research history alone might be enough to paint a surprisingly vivid picture of everything from your current hobbies to your darkest secrets. Not to mention everything you’ve already done in Google’s many other services like YouTubeRead More →
It took several years, but Flipboard is finally coming to the platform where most digital publishers start. After delivering beautiful, personalized mobile magazines to readers on their mobile devices, the company is relaunching its webpage to do the same. Flipboard’s apps allow readers to browse stories based on the differentRead More →
It’s been a while since we last met the people from News360, the “news discovery and analysis platform” that not only works to help you bring out interesting news, but also to help you understand the context. It even leverages your personal social data to match you with the rightRead More →
DOHA: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals (BQFJ) announced yesterday that six of its leading journals are now indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). This includes QScience Connect, the publisher’s interdisciplinary journal that covers research from all disciplines considered valid, ethical and correct. Speaking about the announcement, BQFJ ManagingRead More →
The Washington Post Co. is preparing to launch a free news aggregation website, part of a growing push among publishers to personalize the news reading experience. The service, called Trove, allows readers to create their own news site based on the topics of their choice. Scheduled to go live nextRead More →