The topic of scholarly communication has received short shrift here for the last few years. There has been too much to say about other topics, and developments such as Plan S have been exhaustively discussed elsewhere. But I do want to call attention to an extremely valuable review by Jon Tennant and a host of […]
Source: How to forge statements about your organization’s open science culture
Source: Talking Principles, Values, Norms, Virtues, and Freedoms: A Primer on the use of terms
Source: New paper: “Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing” – Data, Tech & Policy
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 […]
Times Higher Education just published an article about how Springer Nature, one of the largest scholarly publishers, are helping the transition to Open Access. For those who do not want to login to read, here’s a version without that. I am quoted again in this piece challenging the assertions they make, as I believe that […]
Whenever a journalist emails me asking for quotes on a piece, usually only a few of them make it into the final article. This is perfectly normal. However, for the sake of full context and transparency, I feel it is good practice to share the complete comments I made. Others may find them useful, and […]
Source: The New England Journal of Medicine, open access, Plan S, and undeclared conflicts of interest | Richard Smith’s non-medical blogs
Note: A shorter, edited version of this was published in parallel on the LSE Impact Blog. No one disagrees with the idea that freeing up scientific knowledge to the public is a good thing for society. Around 25 years ago, this principle crystallised around the term Open Access (OA), and the birth of the modern, […]
Would it surprise you to learn that most of the world’s scholarly research is not owned by the people who funded it or who created it? Rather it’s owned by private corporations and locked up in proprietary systems, leading to problems around sharing, reuse, and reproducibility. The open science movement is challenging this system, aiming […]