Need help deciding which journal to submit your work to? Check out Jane (Journal/Author Name Estimator).
“Have you recently written a paper, but you’re not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or maybe you want to find relevant articles to cite in your paper? Or are you an editor, and do you need to [...]

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Interested in publishing an open access journal? If so, review this new guide: The Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing.
“The Online Guide to Open Access Journals Publishing is a web-based, living document that allows users to navigate quickly to specific areas of interest. Each chapter contains links to additional resources on the same topic [...]

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I found this interesting blog posting:
The next decade is likely to bring more change to scientific publishing than the decade that just ended. However, it will likely continue to be incremental change that builds on the existing infrastructure rather than destroying it. It will be change that puts pressure on publishers to become even more [...]

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The Royal Society, the national academy of science of the UK and the Commonwealth, has launched, Trailblazing, an online, interactive timeline launched to commemorate three and a half centuries of Royal Society publishing.
Trailblazing is a user-friendly, virtual journey through science. It showcases sixty articles selected from an archive of more than 60,000 articles published by the Royal Society [...]

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Take a look at this interesting slide show titled “Technology Enabled Research.” It reviews how authors can establish a digital identity, keep track of research being done in their field and how to find collaborators using a variety of digital tools.

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Cell Press and Elsevier have launched a project called Article of the Future that is an ongoing collaboration with the scientific community to redefine how the scientific article is presented online. The project’s goal is to take full advantage of online capabilities, allowing readers individualized entry points and routes through the content, while using the [...]

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In conjunction with the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the libraries of Washington University along with its partners, the University of Missouri and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, are pleased to host a free day-long workshop that covers scholarly communication and strategies for author support. There are two workshop sessions being offered:

Scholarly Communication 101: Starting [...]

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Are you an author and wish to retain certain rights to your journal article that are not expressly granted by the publisher? One right you may want to retain is to post the peer-reviewed version of your journal article on your laboratory website. Another right is to comply with the NIH Public Access Policy.
There is a customized [...]

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Since 2001, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has provided free access to original research articles six months after publication to users who registered on the NEJM website.  Effective as of 10 December 2007, registration is no longer required in order to access the original research articles six months after publication.  Full text articles on [...]

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Nature recently announced that genome papers will now be licensed under a “Creative Commons” license to “. . . encourage research and development and to maximise its benefit to society.”

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