Academic self-plagiarism: misconduct or a literary art form?
Plagiarism, the misappropriation of the (usually written) work of others in order to present it as one’s own, is universally regarding asContinue Reading
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Big Boys only for Big Dream of Gold OA in Germany
Germany is set to transform its academic publishing to Open Access (OA). Gold OA model, where the articles are published inContinue Reading
Zombie Scientists
There are zombie papers, those are the long-discredited or even misconduct-riddled publications, which somehow avoid retractions and continue contaminating scientificContinue Reading
Berlin12: closed society at an open access conference
Richard Poynder, British independent journalist and open access (OA) activist of many years, has reported on December 17th 2015 about the recent Berlin12Continue Reading
Open Science, Open Scientists
On the evening of December 5th, I participated at the OpenCon Satellite Event in Berlin. It was organised by Jon TennantContinue Reading
Future of PhD: rabid social Darwinism and wicked concepts for more power abuse
Nature News made a survey and asked scientists about the perspectives of PhD. The tag line goes: “There are tooContinue Reading
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