ScienceInsider has an interesting article about the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) posted online today. The declaration recommends that institutions and agencies "not use journal-based metrics, such as Journal Impact Factors, as… more »

Do you use Microsoft® Excel to record, store, or analyze your data? DataUp is a free, open-source tool that integrates with Excel to help you: follow data management best practices to insure your data are well formatted and organized describe your… more »

A new open access journal in the earth and environmental sciences, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, was recently announced and will begin accepting submissions in April 2013. The journal will publish research on "the Earth?s physical, chemical, an… more »

The peer-reviewed Open Access biological, medical and health sciences journal PeerJ published its first 30 articles on February 12, 2013. PeerJ, co-founded by Peter Binfield (formerly of PLoS) and Jason Hoyt (formerly of Mendeley), employs a three-tiere… more »

The UC Berkeley Library is partnering with the Royal Society of Chemistry to support free Gold Open Access publishing under the RSC?s Gold for Gold initiative. This program offers voucher codes that enable Berkeley researchers to publish their paper… more »