[…] I could quote from Plutchak’s paper all day long. It touches on many topics of interest to this audience — open access, commercial publishers, the evolution of digital materials, partnership, self-definition, and much more. It’s a long paper, but worth the […]
[…] a study described in a headline on ArsTechnica as “the craziest f#@ing ‘theory of everything’” was published in a small open access journal entitled Life. Along with some support from the Case Western press office, this very questionable paper garnered more […]
[…] in science publishing, but meanwhile, publishers are arguing about how to maintain their version of the status quo, whether it’s open access, traditional subscription, or some hybrid: I took away a picture of a sector holding its breath and hoping that […]
[…] Prize.” “Science and Nature are in the business of making money,” the journal charged. “The Journal of Cosmology, is free, open access, and is in the business of promoting science.” While the science in this paper is apparently lacking, the journal […]
[…] to review what could be viewed as various critiques of traditional press practice. Why don’t the presses simply switch to open access? Well, here’s what experiments to date have shown, none of which generate sufficient revenue. Or how about adopting the […]
[…] of AJE is to accelerate global discovery by helping international researchers get published. So we are particularly interested in the open access movement, and are always looking for new ways we can partner to advance the cause. To me, editorial services […]
[…] From Dark Side When Nature Calls — Science Publisher Launches Nature Urology & Scatology “I Thought It Was Tofu!” — Open Access Evangelist and Vegetarian, Stevan Harnad, Caught in Burger Joint Study Finds Librarians Really Are the Sexiest, Wittiest, and Nicest […]
[…] jeered) that PLoS didn’t have a sound business model; some went so far as to indict the very notion of open access publishing. They were wrong. After some false starts with pricing, PLoS launched PLoS ONE, which operates on an adjusted […]
[…] that relies on such publications is increasingly under pressure. There is no magic bullet to counter this trend — not open access, as some contend, or even, more fancifully (but put forth by some in all seriousness), a tax on the […]
Post-publication review is spotty, unreliable, and may suffer from cronyism, several studies reveal. Reporting last month in the open access journal Ideas in Ecology and Evolution [1], ecologist David Wardle analyzed over 1,500 articles published in seven top ecology journals during […]
[…] use the lab’s social media’s website (a stick) paying science bloggers to write (carrot) sharing revenue with authors (carrot) providing open access article processing charge discounts to loyal authors (carrot) The kind of incentives that David discusses are direct incentives — […]
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A library group reveals that its plans to launch an open access romance portal have fallen through.