Some important information here regarding the future of the UK universities relationship with Elsevier. Also emphasises some key points about why academics perhaps aren’t best pleased with this publisher.
OpenCon is the bestest most awesomest conference of the year. Applications are now open for it: https://secure.opencon2016.org/apply/ and anyone with an interest in any aspect of the ‘world of open’ should apply. Here are the important parts of my application, for complete transparency: Why are you interested in Open Access, Open Education and/or Open Data and […]
Article” Fossil Focus: Mesozoic crocodyliforms” by Jonathan P. Tennant published on www.palaeontologyonline.com with in the Fossil Focus category…. by Jonathan P. Tennant*1 Introduction: Crocodilians are truly iconic creatures, and throughout history have inspired stories of dragons and soul-devouring Source: www.palaeontologyonline.com | Article: Fossil Focus > Fossil Focus: Mesozoic crocodyliforms
I was interviewed for Science Disrupt about scholarly publishing, academic reform, and the usual stuff. Enjoy! Source: Science: Disrupt The cost of knowledge is extraordinarily low and the cost of withholding knowledge is extraordinarily high By Lawrence Yolland Jon Tennant, a palaeontologist and Batman of Open Access sat down with us (over Skype) to discuss […]
The impact factor is academia’s worst nightmare. So much has been written about its flaws, both in calculation and application, that there is little point in reiterating the same tired points here … Source: How can academia kick its addiction to the impact factor? – ScienceOpen Blog
It started off in the pub. It always does. At an ‘Open Science Meetup‘ in Berlin, held in the basement bar of a local brewery, one of the attendees asked us all a simple hypothetical question: ‘If I was a research funder going through our budget and saw that we were spending millions on Open […]
So regular readers of this blog will know that I’m a pretty big fan of open access (OA) publishing. I wouldn’t call myself a “self-proclaimed OA advocate” as some seem to use pejoratively against me, but I support the principles of OA: free, unrestricted access to research for everyone. To that end, during my PhD I […]
Great to see some of my Masters research being covered by Discover Magazine! And no, it’s not an April Fools joke.. It may sound superficial, but you can judge a lot about an animal from its schnoz. Plant-eaters have evolved the perfect snout shapes to nibble, chomp, or tear up the foods they love. And by […]
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)