Research Roundup: The benefits of open research, citation distributions and more | PLOScast

lkfitz's bookmarks 2016-07-13

Summary:

"A paper posted to BioRxiv provides an analysis of citation distributions to demonstrate that papers with very different impact factors can end up with the same number of citations."

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"There is another arXiv in town! This time for sociologists. SocArXiv, a new Open Access preprint server, will allow sociologists to review and comment on each other’s work."

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"The Wellcome Trust is launching their own platform, Wellcome Open Research, which will allow authors to publish various types of research."

Link:

http://blogs.plos.org/plospodcasts/2016/07/12/research-roundup-the-benefits-of-open-research-citation-distributions-and-more/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.benefits oa.citations oa.preprints oa.impact oa.socarxiv oa.green oa.ssh oa.wellcome oa.publishing oa.funders oa.uk oa.ecr oa.repositories oa.versions

Date tagged:

07/13/2016, 12:45

Date published:

07/13/2016, 08:45