Anecdata On Sharing Science
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Read It[ This is my competition entry for the ARCS2015 essay competition hosted at The Winnower. I'm using their excellent WordPress plugin to automagically transfer this post from my blog to their site a...
Read It[Update 5.30PM 2015-03-26: Wiley have now ‘freed’ the wrongly-paywalled articles in response to this. It doesn’t change the fact that these articles were wrongly on sale for 2 months and 26 days. T...
Read ItWiley & Readcube have done something rather sneaky recently, and it’s not escaped the attention of diligent readers of the scientific literature. Dear @wileyonlinelib, If I ask for a PDF, don’...
Read Ityou weren’t much loved in your short existence you weren’t much use to readers or text-miners because we often couldn’t find where you were – hiding amongst shadows. you were significantly more exp...
Read ItElsevier seem to have responded to my criticism yesterday and have stopped selling the article “HIV infection en route to endogenization: two cases” from their ScienceDirect website. Take what you ...
Read It[Update 2015-03-13: I have blogged further about this here and provided a recap here. This post has been viewed over 10,000 times. Clearly some people want to sweep this under the carpet and preten...
Read ItSo, apparently Elsevier are launching a new open access mega-journal some time this year, joining the bandwagon of similar efforts from almost every other major publisher. A lovely acknowledgement ...
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...
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