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 science
Plan S protest Open Letter signed by hundreds of scientists
A new Open Letter against Plan S appeared on the internet. Presently over 600 scientists are protesting against what they see as a bit totalitarian Open Access initiative by Robert-Jan Smits and his partners from Science Europe. Among the Open Letter signatories are many early career researchers and tenured academics, including two Nobelists.
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.
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
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
Research “parasitism” and authorship rights
Two seemingly opposing medical editorials on the subject of data sharing have recently been published. One, by the International CommitteeContinue Reading
