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| There is no reason why this needs to be science-fiction |
| Peter Murray-Rust asks "Why should [scholarly] journals exist?" I answer: they don't have to: ...[more]  Inspired by PMR. Click for larger version. For free distribution and reuse. |
| journals publishing reform publishing |
| Posted on Tuesday 12 July 2011 - 17:17:07 |
| Finally, some movement on the ORCID front! |
| WTF is ORCID, you ask? It's something scientific publishing should have had 20 years ago. It's meant to become a system that disambiguates authorship and attributions. For instance, go to PubMed and search for author '...[more] |
| ORCID disambiguation publishing scholarly publishing |
| Posted on Wednesday 08 September 2010 - 01:34:41 |
| On carriages and cars - or: why is it so hard to think novel thoughts? |
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| cars carriages publishing scholcomm |
| Posted on Tuesday 22 January 2013 - 17:18:46 |
| The cost of knowledge - in 2003? |
| My former supervisor (in 1993!) Göran Englund may not be a Field's Medalist (he's an ecologist!), but already in 2003, he saw corporate publishers behaving in the same way which gave rise to the ...[more] |
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| Posted on Thursday 29 March 2012 - 17:16:47 |
| Don't imitate physicists: how prestige ought to be separated from communication |
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| prestige journal rank publishing |
| Posted on Friday 16 November 2012 - 16:20:08 |
| The cost of knowledge in Germany |
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| libraries open access publishing costs |
| Posted on Thursday 07 February 2013 - 19:07:36 |
| The Open Access strategy wars |
| In the UK, the recent "Finch Report" on Open Access has generated a shower of online commentary both from the mainstream media and from activists. I've only linked to a few recent one's to outline the current discussion ...[more] |
| Open Access publishers publishing |
| Posted on Thursday 21 June 2012 - 11:32:45 |
| BMC Neuroscience, what were you thinking? |
| I'm an ardent supporter of and campaigner for the Open Access movement. I try to support any member of this movement as much as I can. However, I just finished a review of a manuscript for BMC Neuroscience and I must say...[more] |
| journal rank journal hierarchy publishing |
| Posted on Thursday 03 February 2011 - 17:30:39 |
| Libraries have all it takes to replace publishers |
| I've written a few times already about why I think (university) libraries are in a perfect position to take over scholarly communication from corporate publishers. Among other things I've mentioned that they already publ...[more] |
| open access publishers publishing scholarly communication |
| Posted on Friday 22 June 2012 - 14:52:31 |
| Neither gold, nor green, nor hybrid are sustainable open access models |
| If you trust empirical evidence, science is currently heading for a cliff that makes dropping off the fiscal cliff look like a small step in comparison. As we detail in our review article currently under revision, retrac...[more] |
| journal rank open access publishing |
| Posted on Friday 28 December 2012 - 14:19:07 |