This week the European Union stated that the the Horizon 2020 research funding programme that will start on January 1st 2014 will launch with €15 billion for the first two years. That is out of a total of almost 80 billion euro. We now also have the full details and documentation for participants. This also…

Yesterday, Science Magazine scooped with a story on a sting with fake articles that passed peer review of 157 Open Access journals. In the article “Who’s afraid of peer review?” John Bohannon, a contributing correspondent to Science, tells how he concocted a fake article and submitted that to hundreds of Open Access journals. His fake…