Category: Scholarly Communications and Publishing - page 7

The $1 Trillion Paradox: Why Reforming Research Publishing Should Be a Global Priority

“Our research system is a perplexing paradox. Each year, approximately $1 trillion of public funds are spent on research worldwide. Whole careers are spent making incremental improvements to research methods. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on a single clinical trial. And yet, the global system for sharing research results is a costly mess…

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Preprint Citation Index: A new resource for TU Delft students and staff

The Preprint Citation Index (PCI) is a new resource that is now available to TU Delft students and staff. The PCI is a searchable database of preprints from a wide range of leading preprint repositories, including arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, chemRxiv, and preprints.org. Preprints are drafts of academic articles that have not yet been peer-reviewed, but..

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Mendeley Cite issue stalemate

Are you a user of the Mendeley reference management software tool and its add-in for Microsoft Word? Did you upgrade Mendeley Desktop to Mendeley Reference Manager and then tried to install and use Mendeley Cite, the citation tool that is used for automatic citing and referencing in Microsoft Word? Then you most probably have encountered..

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