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...
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A brief survey on peer review in scholarly communication
Intro 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 ItTipping the Balance
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...
Read ItWhen Publishers Aren’t Getting It Done
The 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 ItImbalance is not an impediment: understanding the natural imbalances of Sex and B-chromosomes in species by understanding cancer karyotypes
Cancers 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 ItAdvice for PhD Students: Tips From Professors, Startup Founders, and Industry Professionals
Here 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 ItArchiving and Aggregating “Alternative” Scholarly Content: DOIs for blogs.
The 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 ItHello Overleaf!
I 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 ItScience: The Pursuit of The Truth Complicated by The Pursuit of Mortgages.
How 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 ItOpen letter to the Society for Neuroscience
<!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 ItOpen Letter to The American Association for the Advancement of Science
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...
Read ItPeer Review of "Nicholson, J., 2013. Will we cure cancer by sequencing thousands of genomes? Molecular Cytogenetics 6, 57"
The 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 ItMaking Scientific Blogging "Count"
We 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 ItThe R-Factor: A Measure of Scientific Veracity
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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How becoming an open scientist made me fall back in love with neuroscience
Three 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 ItYou Don't Get to 2000 Open Data Sets Without Making a Few Friends – or: How I Got to be Called the Mark Zuckerberg of Open Source Genetics
What 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 ItMaking the scientific system more open and transparent
Science 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 ItHow becoming an open scientist made me fall back in love with neuroscience
Three 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 ItMeasuring the Influence of Commercial Entities in the Twitter backchannels of medical conferences: The #MICEproject
Twitter 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 ItHow to integrate Winnower, blog posts and ResearchGate?
Abstract 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 ItHumanized FoxP2 and the timing of habits
Last 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 ItSearching the Internet for evidence of time travelers
Time 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 ItAn author-based review of the Journal of Open Research Software
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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