The UQ Graduate School Thesis preparation page defines the thesis types that include publications, such as submitting a thesis entirely comprised of publications and submitting a thesis partly comprised of publications.

Soon to come after the Directory of Open Access Journals, and the Directory of Open Access Repositories is the Directory of Open Access Books. The beta version of the service will be made public in early (northern hemisphere) spring this year.

Elsevier has announced that it has withdrawn its support for the US Research Works Act (HR 3699). In their announcement they explain: We are ready and willing to work constructively and cooperatively to continue to promote free and low-cost public access through a variety of means, as we have with research funders and other partners around the world.

You may read Elsevier's announcement: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/intro.cws_home/newmessagerwa

The National Information Standards Organization and the National Federation for Advanced Information Services have issued a new Recommended Practice on Online Supplemental Journal Article Materials, Part A: Business Policies and Practices (NISO RP-15

Journals publish what is often called the 'version of record'. But what if that version included errors, errors of transcription, or errors of fact? How would you know?

There have been recent reports in Nature and the British Medical Journal (BMJ) of research misconduct, which is nothing new. Reports indicate misconduct is still widespread. A recent blog set up to report on the accuracy of scientific journalism is <a href="htt

Protests against the US Research Works Act are escalating. You can sign a petition to register your opposition. The petition will be delivered to the US House of Representatives.

Though American signatories will obviously carry more weight, a display of worldwide opposition to the bill cannot hurt.

The US Research Works Act would allow publishers to line their pockets by locking publicly funded research behind paywalls, according to a Comment piece, Academic publishers have become the enemies of science, in today's Guardian.

Since 2009, publicly funded medical research outputs have been made available free of charge by the National Library of Medicine through PubMed Central. This has provided taxpayers with access to the medical breakthroughs their tax dollars pay for.

The Academic Knowledge and Language graphic visualises the role that language of publication plays in the dissemination of academic knowledge through scholarly journals. It is obvious from first glance that English is entirely dominant.