On the future of peer review: LIBRE presentation at SpotOn London 2013
On Friday 8th of November, Open Scholar Co-founders Michael Taylor and Pandelis Perakakis gave a 5-minute talk on the future of academic peer review also presenting the forthcoming platform LIBRE at...
View ArticleBeyond open access: facing academia’s real problems
On Thursday 5th of December, Open Scholar co-founder Pandelis Perakakis gave a talk on how to move beyond open access and face academia’s real problems, at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich....
View ArticleEurope’s unpreparedness to support peer review innovation
By Pandelis Perakakis Originally posted at: http://pandelisperakakis.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/europes-unpreparedness-to-support-peer-review-innovation/ I recently came back from Brussels where I...
View ArticleLIBRE available for testing
We are happy to announce that after a long delay, a prototype of the LIBRE platform is now available for testing at the temporary address: http://www.lib-res.org. We do not consider this version ready...
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Open Scholar at the OpenAIRE/COAR Joint Conference: “Open Access Movement to...
by Michael Taylor The OpenAIRE (https://www.openaire.eu) / COAR (https://www.coar-repositories.org) Joint Conference “Open Access Movement to Reality: Putting the Pieces Together” took place from the...
View ArticleAcademic self-publishing: a not-so-distant-future
After a long delay, our debate article “Academic self-publishing: a not-so-distant future” finally appeared at Prometheus, a journal publishing critical studies in innovation. The journal issue hosting...
View ArticlePresubmittal peer review for high-impact research
By Karen Shashok; Translator – Editorial consultant, Granada, Spain; kshashok@kshashok.com We thank Karen Shashok for this post that presents arguments on how pre-submission peer review can benefit...
View ArticleDeveloping the first Open Peer Review Module for Institutional Repositories
Why aren’t articles on arXiv —or any other open access repository— formally credited as publications? What is it exactly that separates open access repositories from publishers? The simple answer is...
View ArticleUsing existing infrastructure to transform Peer Review
This blog post was originally published at the ASAPbio commentaries section: http://asapbio.org/open-scholar Gary McDowell, Future of Research and Tufts University, and Pandelis Perakakis, Mind, Brain...
View ArticleOn the future of peer review: LIBRE presentation at SpotOn London 2013
On Friday 8th of November, Open Scholar Co-founders Michael Taylor and Pandelis Perakakis gave a 5-minute talk on the future of academic peer review also presenting the forthcoming platform LIBRE at...
View ArticleBeyond open access: facing academia’s real problems
The slides for the talk Pandelis Perakakis gave on the 5th of December 2013 at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. The talk focuses on how the journal monopoly over three of the most basic...
View ArticleEurope’s unpreparedness to support peer review innovation
Report from the Information Days on the Horizon 2020 Research Infrastructures Work Programme with specific focus on e-infrastructures.
View ArticleLIBRE available for testing
We are happy to announce that after a long delay, a prototype of the LIBRE platform is now available for testing at the temporary address: http://www.lib-res.org. We do not consider this version ready...
View ArticleOpen Scholar at the OpenAIRE/COAR Joint Conference: “Open Access Movement to...
The OpenAIRE (https://www.openaire.eu) / COAR (https://www.coar-repositories.org) Joint Conference “Open Access Movement to Reality: Putting the Pieces Together” took place from the 21st -22nd of May,...
View ArticleAcademic self-publishing: a not-so-distant-future
After a long delay, our debate article “Academic self-publishing: a not-so-distant future” finally appeared at Prometheus, a journal publishing critical studies in innovation. The journal issue hosting...
View ArticlePresubmittal peer review for high-impact research
In this post Karen Shashok presents arguments on how pre-submission peer review can benefit scholarly communication by increasing the quality of published research and reducing retractions.
View ArticleDeveloping the first Open Peer Review Module for Institutional Repositories
Why aren't articles on arXiv —or any other open access repository— formally credited as publications? What is it exactly that separates open access repositories from publishers? The simple answer is...
View ArticleUsing existing infrastructure to transform Peer Review
In reforming the culture of peer review and moving towards a system that embraces the use and recognition of pre-print servers, we are cognizant of the need to avoid re-inventing the wheel, by...
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