Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week

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Retraction Watch 17 retractions from SAGE journals bring total fake peer review count to 250

Nature Faked peer reviews prompt 64 retractions

Washington Post Major publisher retracts 64 scientific papers in fake peer review outbreak

Fivethirtyeight Science isn’t broken. It’s just a hell of a lot harder than we give it credit for

Times Higher Education Concerns dwindle over quality of open access journals

BioMed Central New report reveals growing confidence in open access quality

Research Information Perceptions of open access publishing ‘changing for the better’

Government Computing Research councils’ open access goal prompts HE archive action

The Conversation Open access is a development issue: Challenge the status quo

Replication Index Replicability ranking of 26 psychology journals

Swissinfo Freedom and responsibility in university research

Washington Post What live peer review looks like when the fate of the planet is at stake

Union of Concerned Scientists Union of Concerned Scientists joins criticism of USRTK, PLoS on biotech science literacy “transparency”

Authors Guild Authors, keep your copyrights. You earned them.

Nature The future of science will soon be upon us

Inside Higher Education Advice for aspiring academics

Dynamic Ecology blog What can a journal Editor-in-Chief do to attract you to submit to the journal? a poll

Wired Wikipedia wars are harming politically charged science

Pacific Standard Should environmental reporting get the peer-review treatment?

CILIP Why copyright education is a fundamental part of digital and information literacy

The Guardian How open data can help save lives

Business Wire Nature Publishing Group participating in CCC’s new text mining solution

PR Web The MIT Press becomes 60th publisher to partner with ReadCube