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| | Science in the Sands reports how a US Professor, Dianne O'Leary, wrote to the publisher, Springer, asking for a PDF of her own paper. They refused and as her university doesn't subscribe to the journal, because it is prohibitively expensive,...
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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?"
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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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| The Department of Mathematics at the University of Luxembourg has 8 open positions, as part of a project in fundamental mathematics with a significant comput...