A nice start to the week, my first self-published book is now available on Amazon – The [R]evolution of Open Science! Epic cover design courtesy of Elena Frigerio. Kindle version and paperback version. This book is an evolutionary anthology all of the texts I have written or contributed to in a significant way over the […]
Tl,dr: OpenCon have partially responded to my GDPR request. They still refuse to answer questions regarding the timing and motivations for their public statement, which continues to cause damage today. On January 17, OpenCon made a preliminary response to my GDPR request. The full text of this response is provided below, as I continue to […]
Indeed, when we as researchers first look at a paper, we look at where it was published, who are the authors and where are they from, and some metrics like downloads, reads, and of course, citations. Most of this information is superficial, contributing no real useful information to understanding the research. Even citations, as used […]
Last week, I had the pleasure and honour of giving one of the opening talks at the special Hatun Tinkuy event, organised by the Peruvian research council, Concytec, in Lima. My full talk is available online here, and below, with Spanish translations. Definitely worth watching the other talks too. You can pop on English subtitles […]
This morning, Times Higher Education published a strange and awkward piece from a representative of Elsevier. If you have a subscription you can view it online here. Unsurprisingly for Elsevier though, it contained a number of misleading statements. As such, I left a comment on the article challenging many elements of this, which you can […]
Today, we are still in the middle of a global scientific revolution. Whatever you think it is ‘open science‘ is here on the menu, and it is not going anywhere. In this episode of Science for Progress, Dennis Eckmeier and I talked about the different understandings of open science, and what it means for us […]
SOURCE Our present publishing system is not working well. The growth of Open Access (OA) has been slow, resisted by many publishers at the expense of the public purse. Researchers have outsourced our evaluation system to this dysfunctional industry, which continuously infringes basic academic freedoms and human rights. Plan S is the latest attempt to […]
“Fundamentally, research works best when it is free to share, access, and re-use. Strangely, despite this being so clear, this is for the most part not the case. The vast majority of scholarly research, often produced using public funds, is privatised by commercial companies, and out of the researchers’ control. This is not an effective […]
Well, what a wonderful start to the week. Data Science Guru Lisa Hehnke has performed a great analysis of the Open Science MOOC Twitter account! Check out what she found here: Source: Analyzing the Open Science MOOC Twitter community | dataplanes.org
Today, Dean Lomax and I published a new study that attempts to provide an overview of the state of Open Access journals and publishing in the field of palaeontology. I don’t want to repeat what we found too much, so check this Twitter thread for a summary of the main discoveries. Please do get in […]