There are several fundamental problems with statistical software development in the academic community. In addition, the development and dissemination of academic software will become increasingly difficult due to a variety of reasons. To solve these problems, a new framework for statistical software development, maintenance, and publishing is proposed: it is based on the paradigm that academic...

An increasing reliance on commercial tools for non-originality investigation of student submissions is taking academic integrity beyond its comfortable zone. There is no guarantee if such tools will continue to be available and, if they are, that they will be available at a reasonable price. Further the technical underpinning of such tools is unclear and has not been made publicly available. Th...

A vast number of journals are published monthly but a large percentage is only available by subscription and many libraries in developing nations cannot afford the institutional fees. The costs of publishing an article can be prohibitive for struggling laboratories that have to decide whether to invest in reagents or paper. Budget constraints also prevent researchers from attending large Europe...

While open access is established in the world of academic publishing, open reviews are rare. The Semantic Web journal goes further than just open review by implementing an open and transparent review process in which reviews are publicly available, the assigned editors and reviewers are known by name, and are published together with accepted manuscripts. In this article we introduce the steps t...

Forces are already in motion that will change the future of health sciences librarianship. In addition to changes in academic health centers, changes in the publishing industry, the mode of delivering information by librarians, the use of computers to manipulate and make information available, the user's access to information, and communications technology are briefly described. The author prop...

While open access is established in the world of academic publishing, open reviews are rare. The Semantic Web journal goes further than just open review by implementing an open and transparent review process in which reviews are publicly available, the assigned editors and reviewers are known by name, and are published together with accepted manuscripts. In this article we introduce the steps t...

Assessing the trustworthiness of information found on the Web is challenging because of two factors. First, there is a little control over publishing quality. Second, Web users have little information available on which to base judgment of the trustworthiness of Web information while they are interacting with it. This work addresses this problem by collecting and presenting metadata about autho...

AE~STRACT THISARTICLE PRESENTS THE RESULTS OF A survey of directors of university libraries and other academic administrators to determine attitudes toward a networked electronic approach to the publishing of research articles. A major conclusion is that academic administrators do not now consider the academic community well equipped to undertake an enterprise of this kind and would not give it...