Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week
Chronicle of Higher Education ‘We need to take a look at the data’: how 2 persistent grad students upended a blockbuster study
New York Times Retraction sought in study on views of gay marriage
Science Open-access publisher sacks 31 editors amid fierce row over independence
Frontiers Blog Frontiers acts to defend distributed editorial independence
The Conversation Publisher pushback puts open access in peril
Research Information Elsevier rebuffs COAR/SPARC criticism of sharing and hosting policy
Retraction Watch What should an ideal retraction notice look like?
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Blind trust in unblinded observation in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
BioMed Central blogs The future of peer review
NY Times Fake diplomas, real cash: Pakistani company Axact reaps millions
Boston Globe The exploitative economics of academic publishing
Library Journal U. Minnesota Press, CUNY grad center develop hybrid publishing platform
University of Delaware University of Delaware Library joins COAPI open access coalition
Campus Technology CU Boulder adopts Open Access
BBC Ocean’s hidden world of plankton revealed in ‘enormous database’
BBC Opal citizen science project expands across the UK
University World News Major research trends – clustered, international, open
Berkeley Blogs Cracking open the social sciences: Leamer and Rosenthal strike again
Telegraph Why do British universities still give ‘scientific’ credibility to homeopathy?
PR Newswire Amy Brand, Digital Science, receives 2015 CSE award for meritorious achievement
Research Information Sage and Publons announce peer review pilot
Phys.org Strengthening governance through open data
