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

Times Higher Education Open peer review ‘better quality’ than traditional process

Chronicle of Higher Education Journal publishers rethink a research mainstay: peer review [paywall]

Retraction Watch Elsevier retracting nine papers for fake peer review

BioMedCentral Blog Ready, set, open access!

BioMed Central Evolving service user involvement – next step, academic publishing

Nature Russian secret service to vet research papers

George Washington University Today GW ScholarSpace is the next step toward a 21st-century library

Korea Observer (Science summit) scientists call for more support in ‘open science’

Open Access Week Open Access Week – continuing on the journey   Space Ref Launch of Earth Observation open science 2.0