Open science hit the mainstream of discourse in the scientific community in 2016. Here I examine the emerging criticisms leveled against how we publish and disseminate science and argues it may be ...
Read ItThe National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking input on how to catalyze the modernization of biomedical graduate education through NIGMS’s...
Read ItOSI is a global collaborative effort between major stakeholders in scholarly publishing to improve how research information gets published, shared and accessed. The intiative is a 10-year series of...
Read ItIn Australia, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the biomedical research agency, equivalent to the NIH in the US, the ANR in France or the CIHR in Canada that distributes t...
Read ItBack in February, much significance was attributed to the fact that some biologists, including Nobel laureate Carol Greider, were posting their research articles directly on the web. Amy Harmon wro...
Read ItTS Eliot predicted the current corruption of science by pervasive dishonesty of motive and communication when he described characteristic modern Men: They constantly try to escape/ From the darkne...
Read ItThis is the shorted version of an article I published on 28.04.2016 on my site, For Better Science. Open Science is these days largely about mandatory publishing in Open Access (OA), regardless of...
Read ItThe following is a short, possibly humorous essay providing two concrete ideas to increase reproducibility in science research. The two ideas are united under the notion of a “culture of reproduc...
Read ItThis paper describes a case study of how the University of Edinburgh gathered information about open access Article Processing Charges (APCs) that were paid by its affiliated academic authors, with...
Read ItDiversity supports the well-being of any healthy and productive ecosystem. The scholarly research enterprise is no different in this regard. Diversity needs to be designed into the research ecos...
Read ItThe following document is the approximate transcript for a directed discussion on the topic of work and family balance. The audience contained mostly professionals in chemistry (academia and indu...
Read ItThe economics of scholarly publishing are perverse. Each year universities pay hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, in subscriptions to publishers to purchase work that their own sch...
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