Preprinters of the World Unite
The following is a rant in praise of preprints. I blog of usefulness of preprints, open science and open access, how BioRxiv works and their Plan U.
Tag: open data
Robert-Jan Smits: scholarly societies “will have to bite the bullet and go Open Access”
I obtained a near-verbatim transcript of a video-conference Plan S architects Robert-Jan Smits and Science Europe president Marc Schiltz had on October 19th with Lynn Kamerin and other authors of the Appeal. It appears that Smits and Schiltz see the scientists and their scholarly societies as the reactionary elements blocking the road to the universal Open Access (OA).
Response to Plan S from Academic Researchers: Unethical, Too Risky!
This is Appeal by several European scientists protesting against Plan S, recently revealed by the EU and a coalition of European research funders. Lynn Kamerlin and her coauthors worry that Plan S will deprive them of quality journal venues and of international collaborative opportunities, while disadvantaging scientists whose research budgets preclude paying and playing in this OA league. They offer instead their own suggestions how to implement Open Science.
How Lopez-Otin et al mocked data policy at Nature Cell Biology
Elite journal Nature Cell Biology (NCB) requests deposition of raw data, in particular original scans of western blots and other gel analyses. Spanish star cancer researcher Carlos López-Otín, winner of 2017 Nature Mentoring Award, instead deposited whatever odd gel picture his lab had available, counting that nobody will bother to check. Yet readers did.
Lack of transparency in ERC funding decisions, by Shravan Vasishth
Academic research is dependent on funding, and funding agencies, both public and charity ones, play a crucial gatekeeper function inContinue 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
PLOS Correction removes (then reinstates) previously available anonymised patient clinical trial data
Researchers have removed the previously openly available anonymised patient data of the clinical trial FINE from their publication in PLOSContinue 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
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
Blatt is back: “open debate cornerstone of scientific process”
Michael Blatt, Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Plant Physiology, is backContinue Reading
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