Scientists, institutions and journals have been increasingly evaluated statistically, by metrics that focus on the number of published reports rather than on their content, raising a concern that ...
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Why would anyone thank a publisher for his permission to reprint an article as part of a dissertation, instead of thanking the publisher for printing it in the first place?
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The Journal of Open Research Software (JORS) is an open access journal, which publishes peer reviewed software papers. Software papers describe open source software for research with high reuse pot...
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A brief account of the Medical Hypotheses Affair may be found here: http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.com/2010/05/medical-hypotheses-affair-times-higher.html But there is one general aspect which ...
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Big science is on the rise. Recent endeavors, such as the Large Hadron Collider and the Human Genome Project, illustrate the rise in large-scale scientific inquiries. To assess whether big science ...
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- Jonathan P. Tennant
- Timothée Poisot
- M Fabiana Kubke
- François Michonneau
- Michael P. Taylor
This is an open letter concerning the recent launch of the new open access journal, Science Advances. In addition to the welcome diversification in journal choices for authors looking for open acce...
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- Erin C. McKiernan
- Marco Arieli Herrera-Valdez
- Christopher R. Madan
- Philippe Desjardins-Proulx
- Anders Eklund
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This is an open letter concerning the recent launch of the new open access journal, eNeur...
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Heroku for Science
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Access to research is limited worldwide by the high cost of subscription journals that require readers to pay to view content. The reuse of scientific research in educational materials, new studies...
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In their letter, "Ailing academia needs culture change" (1), V. Callier and N. L. Vanderford highlight the inherent institutional instability that has been generated by flooding academic science wi...
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Clay Shirky's widely
quoted observation that publishing is now “just a button” has divided opinion
in among academics. The confusion is due to pun on the word “publishing”, which
in academic cir...
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