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The Basics of Open Access

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This access includes individuals or institutions subscribing to the journal or people paying for access to individual articles. For researchers, this means submitting an article to a journal and, if it’s accepted, the journal pays for it to be peer reviewed and then for it to be published. Some Terms to Know.

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The Importance of Transparency in Research Integrity

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Earlier this week, the journal BMC Medicine announced that it will not retract a controversial 2013 paper authored by botanist Steven Newmaster. Instead, the journal has added a new editor’s note that says indicates “no further editorial action is needed at this point”. . It was then that a formal investigation began.

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Refine, Don’t Reject: Here’s why the UGC-CARE List should not be scrapped

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In fact, the UGC website appears to be highlighting the quarterly deadline for the submission of new journals as March 2025, indicating the potential release of an updated list by April this year (though I am unable to tell when the list was last updated, some of the journals seem to have been discontinued in July 2024).