If the career opportunities, research funding and awards of Claude Shannon had depended on his h-index, he would have been in serious trouble. Even though his works were absolutely revolutionary and he created the basis for the recent digital revolution, he did not like to […]
Publishers do not expect authors to pay for APC out of their own pocket, and usually try to inform authors about all the possible sources of funding that they can use to cover the cost. This blog post is one such try. So you have […]
There is a growing awareness of the fact that young researchers face difficulties in achieving their first permanent position in academia (if you are not familiar with this problem follow #postdocalypse hashtag on Twitter or read this post by Phil Jones). Usually, we are moving […]
Starting from January 1, 2015 all new funding agreements with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will be under the terms of its new open access policy, which requires all the research output to be discoverable and accessible on-line, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 […]
Funding remains one of the main problems associated with Open Access. If readers do not have to pay for access to scientific knowledge, someone else has to cover costs of publishing. There is a growing number of so-called author-pays journals that offer high quality editorial […]
If you are a researcher, a librarian or an administrative worker in a research facility, you may want to suggest for your institution to enroll in one of the membership programs offered by Open Access publishers. These programs are designed to decrease the cost of […]
This post is the fifth part of my series ‘How to promote an Open Access book?‘ Although having realized that it may apply to both books and papers, I decided to change the title a little bit. It is impossible to imagine promotion without the […]
Publications are key to a successful academic career. Across the world, formal or informal criteria of academic promotion mostly take into account publishing achievements (have a look here for recent article on detailed studies on academic careers in the biomedical sciences, that I think, in […]
Are you, or would you like to become, a book author? Visit our other guides. You chose an appropriate publisher, your book is accepted, and finally published. But this does not mean that your work is over. Your publisher can handle promotional work, but you […]
Are you, or would you like to become, a book author? Visit our other guides. I have decided to write another post on choosing a publisher because I think it is an important step and I want to discuss a different aspect that was not […]