Open Science And Scholarly Publishing Roundup July 10 2015 Science Research News

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

Open Access Academy OA Survey Report Almetric Impact and attention: what can the metrics tell us? Washington Post ‘Fraudulent’ peer review strikes another academic publisher; 32 articles questioned Times Higher Education Elsevier journal editors ‘may be asked to resign’ in open access row Techdirt New boycott in support of open access: third time lucky? Information Today Highlights from the CERN workshop on innovations in scholarly communication BioMed Central blogs Open bioinformatics in the Irish free software state PR Newswire AAAS, publisher of science, acquires peer review evaluation (pre) service to help promote transparency and public trust in science EurekAlert! New CUP open access policy ‘prevents double-dipping’ Baltimore Sun Johns Hopkins, UMD to open data research center Electronic Frontier Foundation Open Data bills move forward in California