Everyone loves dinosaurs, right? There’s a new podcast episode out with Joel Werner at the Sum of all Parts where Steve Brusatte and I chat about the ongoing explosion in dinosaur discoveries, and what this means for science. Enjoy!
SOURCE Our present publishing system is not working well. The growth of Open Access (OA) has been slow, resisted by many publishers at the expense of the public purse. Researchers have outsourced our evaluation system to this dysfunctional industry, which continuously infringes basic academic freedoms and human rights. Plan S is the latest attempt to […]
“Fundamentally, research works best when it is free to share, access, and re-use. Strangely, despite this being so clear, this is for the most part not the case. The vast majority of scholarly research, often produced using public funds, is privatised by commercial companies, and out of the researchers’ control. This is not an effective […]
Well, what a wonderful start to the week. Data Science Guru Lisa Hehnke has performed a great analysis of the Open Science MOOC Twitter account! Check out what she found here: Source: Analyzing the Open Science MOOC Twitter community | dataplanes.org
Today, Dean Lomax and I published a new study that attempts to provide an overview of the state of Open Access journals and publishing in the field of palaeontology. I don’t want to repeat what we found too much, so check this Twitter thread for a summary of the main discoveries. Please do get in […]
If you go to an average Thai island today, you find a very different “predator” to what existed 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. Instead of your average-IQ’d Australian male ‘gap yah’ backpacker, back in the age of dinosaurs there existed a group of ferocious carnivores called megaraptorans. Source: Mega-raptors were top predators […]
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