This is adapted from our “recent” paper in F1000 Research, entitled “A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review.” Due to its rather monstrous length, I’ll be posting chunks of the text here in sequence over the next few weeks/months/years now apparently, to help disseminate it in more easily digestible bites. Enjoy! This […]
Source: Episode #43: Interview with Jon Tennant about Open Science – PhD Career Stories
In every coffee break conversation, you hear murmurs of a ‘broken academic system’. Hallways whisper secret conversations about the latest case of professional abuse, the tenured professor still writing papers on a type-writer, and the grad student that mysteriously disappeared just 6 months in. I’m going to try and outline here what I have seen in […]
Staying on top of the research literature is really hard. It’s even harder because most of the time, we don’t actually know what’s in a published paper until we’ve spent the time paying to access it, and reading it. That’s right – you have to pay for access to articles to even figure out if […]
One of the major arguments I still hear in favour of journals is that people still need them in order to know where to look for the latest research in their field. With over 1.5-2 million English-language articles in STEM subjects published each year, we each have a monolithic task of filtering out what research is […]
‘Open’ is not an end result for research: it is a mechanism. A mechanism for improved transparency and accountability, for reproducibility and rigour, and efficiency and accelerated discovery. A new article by Marcus Munafò and colleagues presents a manifesto for reproducible research that highlights this, and contains substantial important reading on this topic. Enjoy! Abstract […]
This is an updated post from one I published a while back on my old blog at: http://wp.me/p22pR3-2F – as I’ve developed as a scientist, I thought it would be good to share these thoughts in the emergence of new information and experiences. The comments on the older post are worth a quick read. This was originally […]