The Costs of Knowledge: scientists want their cut on the scam
When the mathematician Timothy Gowers, with some co-signers, started in 2012 his initiative “The Costs of Knowledge” to boycott ElsevierContinue Reading
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Peer review ghost-writing, or do professors understand plagiarism?
Every academic will probably agree that plagiarism is wrong. It is absolutely not OK to pass someone’s else’s intellectual workContinue Reading
Journal announces to clean up past literature, gets “smeared” by Retraction Watch
On June 9th 2017, the research integrity news website Retraction Watch brought an article titled: „Journal won’t look at allegationsContinue Reading
COPE, the publishers’ Trojan horse, calls to abolish retractions
Four private scientists without any agenda whatsoever published a research result preprint on the portal BioRxiv. The “new results” reportedContinue Reading
Human Brain Project: bureaucratic success despite scientific failure
The EU €1-Billion-Flagship Human Brain Project (HBP) has passed its midterm evaluation with flying colours. Noone knows exactly what theContinue Reading
Wellcoming the samizdat publishing revolution
The British research funder Wellcome Trust (now just Wellcome) is about to launch its own journal, where the funding recipients and theirContinue Reading
Self-Plagiarism: helps careers, hurts noone?
Times Higher Education recently reported about an online survey on research integrity of British scientists. The study was performed andContinue Reading
False priorities at EU2016NL: Mandate Open Data instead of Gold Open Access!
Open Science is these days largely about mandatory publishing in Open Access (OA), regardless of the costs to poorer scientistsContinue Reading
April Fools: Elsevier pledges integrity, sacks Marcus, Horton
On March 22nd, Tom Reller, Head of Global Corporate Relations for the publishing giant Elsevier, declared the often criticised andContinue Reading
Post-publication peer review: signed or anonymous?
The post-publication peer review (PPPR) has become a heated discussion topic. Precisely, the issue is not whether PPPR is necessary (the oppositionContinue Reading
