Frontiers Christmas Carol
The Swiss academic publisher Frontiers, owned by the EPFL professor Henry Markram and his wife Kamila (plus some investors, includingContinue Reading
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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
Optionally transparent peer review: a major step forward, but which direction?
A journal of the Nature Publishing group (NPG) has recently announced “Transparent peer review at Nature Communications”. Transparent peer reviewContinue 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
Frontiers removes junior peer reviewers
Brief NEWS piece Shortly after my article appeared where I reported of a case of a freshly graduated Master Student acting asContinue Reading
Part 1: Frontiers in Paranormal Activities
This is my currently final (two-part) instalment on the topic of Frontiers listing by Jeffrey Beall as a potential, possibleContinue Reading
Join the Committee, ignore Publication Ethics
What we often perceive as independent quality certificates of publishing ethics are sometimes apparently nothing more than a fig leaf. This isContinue Reading
Is Frontiers a potential predatory publisher?
The Lausanne-based publishing house Frontiers, founded by the neuroscientists Henry and Kamila Markram, has been added to the Beall’s List of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers. Was this decision justified? I wish to share here some of my recent investigations.
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