There are more than 10,000 species of bird living on Earth today. If you recognise that birds are living dinosaurs, which overwhelming evidence indicates that they are, then this makes them more diverse than their living mammalian counterparts. So if you take the number of species to mean anything, this means we’re still in the […]
Wiley and Elsevier attacked over failures to deposit papers as research funder warns it could withdraw funding for hybrid journals Source: Wellcome criticises publishers over open access | Times Higher Education (THE)
Source: Springer Nature to extend content sharing to whole Springer Nature-owned journal portfolio
On that time I was in Parliament representing the UK Geological Community, and got to quiz Sir Mark Walport about open access!
The Need for Meaningful Diversity and Human-Centred Design When Imagining a “Scholarly Commons” JT: A really powerful piece on considering a diversity of perspectives when discussing the future of scholarly communication, and to promote inclusivity rather than exclusivity. Source: Whose Utopia? — Medium
Chaaaaange places! Sometimes, when extinction hits it’s not quite the dramatic ‘great dying’ we might think of where animals choke their final breaths out in the desolate, lifeless wastelands. Sometimes, it’s more like the Mad Hatter’s tea party from Alice in Wonderland: chaotic, messy, no major character dies, but you can be sure that something […]
The Orinoco crocodile, Crocodylus intermedius, is one of the most threatened crocodile species in the world. There are now just a few wild populations remaining in Venezuela and Colombia. Excessive hunting until the 1960s and egg collecting for their local consumption decimated their numbers, and now new conservation efforts are aiming to revive their dwindling […]
The Zika virus is an international public health emergency, as declared early on in February by the World Health Organisation. As such, it is critical that the global research community help combat… Source: Rapid publishing and open peer review accelerating research communication in times of crisis – ScienceOpen Blog
Great post on how academics evaluate research. Time to move beyond poor proxies. Also relevant to this post: http://blog.scienceopen.com/2016/03/collections-as-the-future-of-academic-led-journals/
ScienceOpen Collections are thematic groups of research articles that transcend journals and publishers to transform how we collate and build upon scientific knowledge. Source: Collections as the future of academic-led journals – ScienceOpen Blog