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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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| | Today, Science Europe is presenting a plan aimed at speeding up the transfer to open access to research results, Plan S. According to this plan, all scientific publications that report on the results of research financed by governmental funding bodies shall be openly accessible as from 1 January 2020. The Swedish Research Council agrees in principle to the aims of the plan.
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| | or the day after the sting I got the embargoed copy of Science Magazine article on peer review in Open Access earlier this week, which gave me a chance to read it with tranquility. I have to say I really liked it. It was a cool sting, and it exposed many of the flaws in...
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| https://ift.tt/YDsno5t This is are-post from And Then There's Physics I realise that I haven't written anything for a while and am unlikely to become particularly prolific again anytime soon. However, there's something I've been thinking about and thought that I would write a post. It relates to something Alex Trembath has written in an article...