Some details on our newly published paper on peer review, by co-author Prof. Tom Crick. Enjoy! Source: New paper: “A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review” – Computing: The Science of Nearly Everything
Peer review is broken, but we hold the technological and social solutions to fix it. Right now. We just submitted a monster paper on the history and present diversity of peer review practices to F1000 Research. It’s available in advance here, and soon will be open to public commenting from anyone as it undergoes formal […]
Last week, I unveiled Open Access graphic 3.0. However, it was still pretty terrible, seeing as I have absolutely no creative design skills at all. Luckily, my girlfriend, and the other part of ‘Team Open’, Lisa Matthias, does. She made this wonderful infographic below, which is free for anyone to re-use and share as they […]
The last iteration of this post made the assumption that ‘gold’ Open Access meant you had to pay for it. I of all people should know that this is what us English scientists call ‘pish-posh’. It turns out that in reality, around 70% of journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) have […]
This is not the first time this sort of thing has happened on Twitter. A direct series of insults towards researchers for expressing their view on a matter relating to ‘Open Science’. Any other idiots out there that feel like exposing themselves today? pic.twitter.com/i3GdToGSdR — Jordan Anaya (@OmnesResNetwork) May 13, 2017 Yeah, that’s not helping. […]
“This shouldn’t take too long..” said this idiot last week. As part of the development of PaleorXiv, I’ve now built a comprehensive database of self-archiving policies for journals that publish Palaeontological research. The different columns represent different ‘stages’ of manuscript publication at which you can self-archive for free: Preprint: Version of a research paper prior to […]
The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) is a public, digital archive of the fossil record. Based on countless hours of work from more than 400 scientists around the world, it now contains more than 1.3 million individual fossil occurrences from around the world in a single database that is accessible by everyone. That’s pretty awesome. What’s even more […]
However ill-defined it may be, the peer-review process is still the gold standard that will continue to drive scholarly publication. (source) I’m not really sure what this means. It sounds like, ‘no-one knows what peer review really is, but we’ll maintain it at the core of research anyway’.. The same for.. While it is not […]
Earlier this year, we announced that we were going to build an Open Science MOOC! So far, more than 30 people from around the world have contributed their time and expertise. Thanks to their volunteer input, we have all managed to construct a proposed structure for this project, which can be found here. This is […]
We asked, you spoke, we listened. Last week, we announced that PaleorXiv was open for submissions. This led to a great deal of discussion, as expected, including some important concerns from members of the Palaeo community. We are thankful for all of the engagement so far from all of you. As I previously stated “I want […]