Open text editing tools for open scholarly communications

Open access to scholarly full-text documents

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to discuss open access to scholarly full-text documents. Design/methodology/approach – Discusses open access to scholarly full-text documents. Findings – The paper shows that while open access archives are good for the majority, for publishers, editors and authors, open access articles can substantially increase their impact, and the impact factor for th...

Open Access publishing and scholarly communications in non-scientific disciplines

SAVVY SEARCHING Open access to scholarly full-text documents

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to discuss open access to scholarly full-text documents. Design/methodology/approach – Discusses open access to scholarly full-text documents. Findings – The paper shows that while open access archives are good for the majority, for publishers, editors and authors, open access articles can substantially increase their impact, and the impact factor for th...

Genome editing: Broad Institute keeps CRISPR tools open.

As chief communications officer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, I wish to clarify that the institute makes patent rights for CRISPR–Cas9 genome-editing technologies available globally across academia and industry (see J. Sherkow Nature 532, 172–173; 2016). For academic research, the patent rights are freely available and we openly share CRISPR reagents through the non-profit reposito...

A Vision for Open Cyber-Scholarly Infrastructures

The characteristics of modern science, i.e., data-intensive, multidisciplinary, open, and heavily dependent on Internet technologies, entail the creation of a linked scholarly record that is online and open. Instrumental in making this vision happen is the development of the next generation of Open Cyber-Scholarly Infrastructures (OCIs), i.e., enablers of an open, evolvable, and extensible scho...