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Author(s): Quirin Schiermeier Ross Mounce knows that when he shares his research papers online, he may be doing something illegal - if he uploads the final version of a paper [...]

Search the Internet for any research article published in 2011, and you have a 50-50 chance of downloading it for free. This claim--made in a report (1) produced for the [...]

Reports that a group of researchers say they will stop buying, publishing, or reviewing for any scientific journal that refuses to place its research papers in a proposed online database, Public Library of Science, within six months of initial publication. Reaction of publishers, who claim that free access will leave journals without enough revenue to support peer review; Speculation that the research will end up on the publicly-funded PubMedCentral rather than on a private site.

The article discusses the use of digital badges to denote scientists' contribution to published research. Advocates of this method say that it could help to enhance collaboration in scientific research and prevent senior researchers from unfairly taking credit for the work of their juniors. Details on the system of badges used by the publisher BioMed Central in two of its journals are presented, including the taxonomy used to classify researchers' contributions.

Reports on the impact that the Internet is having on the publishing of scholarly journals, the influence of scientists, and the authority of learned societies. Decision of Denmark's Technical Knowledge Center and Library in Lyngby to provide scientific journals only through the World Wide Web; Other countries that are moving in the same direction, including the United States; Cost of the printed page compared to the electronic page; Difficulty presented to libraries; Recourse taken by libraries. INSETS: User consortia emerge as `brokers.';Preserving papers for posterity;Roll over Gutenberg.

Reports on the advancement of scientific literature onto the Internet and the inevitability that it readers will have free access to it. Fears and concerns including whether the content of the information will be preserved; Price issues involving the downloading of information; Other issues.

The article reflects on the launch of the online commenting facility rule of the "Nature" magazine. It notes that the online discussions on its research papers are considered more inhibited. It points out that paper comment in the formal context of its Web site may be intimidating to some scientists or may offend the colleagues. It announces that the magazine adopts a twin-track approach to meet the demand of its readers using its commenting facility.

Reports that the "Nature" magazine will increase the number of publications in its Brief Communications Arising (BCA) section. Publication of articles online; Types of letters and articles published in the BCA section; Improvements in the magazine's navigation for readers.

In this article, the author reflects on the two decade existence of the electronic bulletin board ArXiv, as well as its future of scholarly communication. He says that ArXiv should not only be used as an efficient means of distribution, but also lead a powerful knowledge structure. He also notes that the coordination of ArXiv's users and stakeholders will resolve the issues on its relationship to conventional publishing, its funding model, and its overall intellectual supervision.

Reports that, as of November, 2000, the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature will allow zoological names to be published online rather than on paper. Statement that formal names previously had to be printed on paper to be valid; Mention of an article in the online journal 'Palaeontologia Electronica' that assigns names to species of fossil protists; Opinion that electronic taxonomy will be the rule within a decade.

Discusses possibilities of publishing scientific papers online. Benefits from electronic publishing; Payment for the system; Suggested structure of the database; Ranking of papers through the number of citations received in other papers; Suggested screening system for papers submitted for publication.

The article discusses that blogs can be a medium to publish peer reviewed works and disseminate information in the internet. In a commentary from "Nature Geoscience," Gavin Schmidt of the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies at Columbia University mentions that blogs can be a good way to disseminate information and knowledge. However, in the same issue of the journal, Myles Allen of University of Oxford disagreed with Schmidt. Allen mentions that his peer-reviewed work was criticized and misinterpreted on the internet. Although Allen concludes that blogs are not good option to publish peer reviewed work, Schmidt still remains optimistic about it.

Information about the topics discussed at the meeting of publishers held at Nature Publishing Group's office in New York City is presented. The event was attended by the staff from Microsoft Corp., and companies that produce editing or manuscript tracking tools. Attendees discussed the problems in the use of Word 2007 in scientific publishing. In response to the result of the meeting, Microsoft plans to establish a web page with details on how to use Word 2007 for scientific publishing

This article discusses the business losses of the Public Library of Science (PLoS), the publisher for the open-access journal movement in the U.S. Open-access model is one in which publishing costs are recovered by charging authors, and academic papers are made available for free to the end-user. The publisher lost almost one million dollars in 2005.

New tools for building interactive figures and software make scientific data more accessible, and reproducible. New tools for building interactive figures and software make scientific data more accessible, and reproducible., Author(s): Jeffrey M. Perkel Author Affiliations: Illustration by the Project Twins Data visualization tools drive interactivity and reproducibility in online publishing As Benjamin Delory started his paper documenting a new [...]

Predicts the replacement of printed science journals with online communities. Opinion that change will be driven by Internet functionality; Mention of a paradigm shift in scientific publishing and data handling; Access of scientific information to developing countries.

Examines the imminent demise of printed publications as digitization visionaries try to digitize the world's literature; Contribution of the plan of Google Inc. to make millions of books available online to the destruction of printed works; Detection of the emergence of conflict between authors and publishers against the visionaries on the issue; Factors that contributed to the drive to transfer these works into electronic form.

The article discusses ways to reduce electronic publishing energy consumption due to internet usage which includes shrinking the size of the transfer files, low-resolution submissions, and publication discount charges for small files.

The article discusses the need to elaborate plans to modernize the slackening scientific journals in China. It emphasizes that the country's General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) must provide a sensible reform and must be more aggressive in evaluating journals, improving the strong, and killing off the weak. It adds that an open-access platform is the best opportunity to revive Chinese publishing and making content freely available would help to popularize journals.

A debate is swirling around a tactic that academic publisher John Wiley & Sons uses to fight online piracy (see go.nature. com/299xi1y). The company created a webpage, accessible by several [...]

Thousands of Albert Einsteins letters and writings are freely available online through a website launched 5 December. The site is a partnership involving Princeton University Press in New Jersey, the [...]

Scientists like to complain about peer review. No researcher wants to be told that their work is flawed, unworthy or just plain wrong. But in recent months, I received reviews [...]

Even the most optimistic advocates of open access to academic publications must admit that we are years--and perhaps decades--away from full conversion to such a system. It is easy to [...]

Animated, interactive, and evolving at the readers command: this is the popular science book of the near future, according to T. J. Kelleher, the science commissioning editor at Basic Books [...]

With access to the Internet, the (official) world of animals and plants will soon be at your fingertips. In a landmark ruling, zoologists last week agreed that newly identified species [...]

As the era of the electronic book dawns, perhaps hastened by Apple's much-touted iPad, researchers should prime themselves to take advantage of the spacious book format. Unlike a tweet, blog [...]

When users click from one page to another while looking through online scientific journals, they generate a chain of connections between things they think belong together. Now a billion such [...]

In an increasingly competitive market, journals are working hard to attract customers--not unlike recession-squeezed fancy restaurants--writes Juan Carlos Lopez, editor of Nature Medicine, on the Spoonful of Medicine blog (http://blogs.nature.com/ [...]