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| | The so-called "sting" by Science on Open Access journals has brought a lot of criticism, some of this is here, and here. For me the best has been Micheal Eisen's post, which uses satire to show that Science was well wide of the mark. As the discussion dies down on the subject, I have had...
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| | Recently an article in Science surveyed open access journals and found a number of distressing findings with respect to the peer review process. An overview is available at:http://www.scidev.net/global/publishing/news/sting-exposes-wild-west-of-open-access-publishing.html?utm_content=bufferb2a6d&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer The original version in Science is at:http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full As the Science article acknowledges, the same results could be found if we did a survey of traditional journals as...
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| | Some bacteria, viruses and archaea have persisted through Earth's extreme geographic and atmospheric conditions for over 3 billion years. How can we learn from these microbes to inform our climate change response?
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| This post makes a case for universities investing in people and processes for reviewing research in house before publication. This idea has no doubt been proposed before and is probably already a feature of some academic institutions, but I wanted to clarify here why I think it would benefit academic research. High-energy physics research is ... Continue reading "How to shed light on in-house publication review processes?"