The pros and cons of supplementary materials in scientific publishing
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - 23:01
in Mathematics & Economics
The ascendance of the Internet has changed academic publishing in ways that scientists are still adjusting to. A new commentary in The Auk: Ornithological Advances examines the costs and benefits of supplementary materials, which are online-only additions to scientific papers that often contain datasets, audio and visual files, and other hard-to-classify resources.