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The EU’s restrictive Stablecoin rules will soon come into effect and publishers are running out of time

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Tether, Circle and other major stablecoin issuers will soon be on the phone in the European Union. With the new rules coming into effect on June 30, they will not only need the proper authorization to operate in the 27-nation trading bloc, but will also have to deal with the strict limits on transaction numbers … Read more

Two open access publishers accused of excessive self-citation

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Credit: Madeline Monroe/C&EN/Shutterstock Two major academic publishers of open access research – that is, free to read outside a paywall – have been accused of excessively citing articles previously published in their own journals. A study published in May before peer review on the preprint server SocArXiv suggests that high self-citation rates may have increased … Read more