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 ...
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The 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...
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OSI 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...
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In 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...
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Back 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...
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TS 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...
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This
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...
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The 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...
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This 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...
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Diversity
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...
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The 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...
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The 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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