Flipping to Open Access
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...
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 ItIntro Peer review, the process by which subject experts evaluate a piece of work, is an integral part of scholarly publishing. In most cases peer review is coordinated by an editor at a scholarl...
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...
Read ItThe following questions and answers are adapted from the session “When Publishers Aren’t Getting It Done,” part of the Association of American University Presses annual meeting. Moderator: Neil Ch...
Read ItCancers are defined by abnormal karyotypes, displaying ever-changing structural and numerical abnormalities. Such plasticity of the karyotype underlies the evolution of cancer cells (Navin et al. ...
Read ItHere we present various pieces of advice from startup founders, academic professors, research scientists, postdoctoral fellows, and industry executives to current and future PhD students.
Read ItThe value of blogs and bloggers in science is well recognized. Blogs serve as an excellent form of post-publication peer review and host much of the scientific discussion that occurs on the web to...
Read ItI am a biologist. I work on Microsoft Word and use Endnote (*ducks in anticipation of tomatoes being thrown). Since entering into the world of scientific publishing it has become increasing clear...
Read ItHow we can align open communication seen on blogs with career-advancement garnered from publications. Three key aspects of scholarly communication need to be made available for bloggers: 1) DOIs, ...
Read It<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> This is an open letter concerning the recent launch of the new open access journal, eNeur...
Read ItThis 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...
Read ItThe following are pre-publication peer reviews received on the manuscript: Will we cure cancer by sequencing thousands of genomes (Nicholson 2013), which was initially rejected and later resubmitte...
Read ItWe are, as a culture, obsessed with counting things. From the number of "likes" and "followers" we have to the number of "retweets" and "shares" we get. It's how we measure our popularity and in ...
Read ItScientists, 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 ...
Read ItTime travel has captured the public imagination for much of the past century, but little has been done to actually search for time travelers. Here, three implementations of Internet searches for ti...
Read ItThe 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...
Read ItLast week, Elizabeth Pennisi asked me to comment on the recent paper from Schreiweis et al. entitled “Humanized FoxP2 accelerates learning by enhancing transitions from declarative to procedural pe...
Read ItWhat Have I Done?! There are many firm believers in the different kinds of openness: open access, open source, open data, open science, open you-name-it. And at least to me, some of the most inter...
Read ItAbstract I argue that traditional scientific publication is extremely costly and that scientific publication must move towards more rapid publication practices. I discuss how this might be accompli...
Read ItTwitter backchannels are increasingly popular at medical conferences. A variety of user groups, including healthcare providers and third party entities (e.g., pharmaceutical or medical device comp...
Read ItThree years into my PhD, the most important thing to me was publishing in Nature. As a PhD student in computational neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon, I was building computer simulations to study how...
Read ItScience needs to be a transparent process. The methods used and the results obtained should be easily accessible to and by all, not only to discuss conclusions, but also to compare and contrast res...
Read ItThree years into my PhD, the most important thing to me was publishing in Nature. As a PhD student in computational neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon, I was building computer simulations to study how...
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