Addgene, An Open Access Success Story
It has been my honor for the last 4 years to facilitate open reagent sharing with the team at Addgene. Addgene accelerates discovery by facilitating collaboration and the open sharing of ready-to...
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open access
Ten ‘Personal’ Reasons why I am skeptical about Open Access (OA): Thoughts of an Individual Researcher
Ten ‘Personal’ Reasons why I am skeptical about Open Access (OA): Thoughts of an Individual Researcher Although a great deal of hurdles are overcome with so many ‘models’ of Open Access (OA), ...
Read ItThe selfish scientist’s guide to preprint posting
Preprint posting is the right thing to do for science and society. It enables us to share our results earlier, speeding up the pace of science. It also enables us to catch errors earlier, minimisin...
Read ItHow contributing to open source launched my academic career
Open has defined my professional career in every way imaginable: for almost ten years now it has been the motivating force in my career, the mode in which I work, and the subject that I research. A...
Read ItKnowledgeable Consumers: How E-Tourism and Publishing has Adapted to the Connected User
Digital natives, the generations that have been born since the 1980s, have grown up in a world where vacation plans are researched and reserved online and books can be downloaded to a tablet in an ...
Read ItOpen Access and the Research Excellence Framework: Strange bedfellows yoked together by HEFCE
When the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) announced its open access policy last March the news was greeted with great enthusiasm by OA advocates, who view it as a “game changer”...
Read It“Thank you for your kind permission to reprint.” NOT.
Why would anyone thank a publisher for his permission to reprint an article as part of a dissertation, instead of thanking the publisher for printing it in the first place?
Read ItOpen letter to the Society for Neuroscience
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> This is an open letter concerning the recent launch of the new open access journal, eNeur...
Read ItAAAS misses opportunity to advance open access
Access to research is limited worldwide by the high cost of subscription journals that require readers to pay to view content. The reuse of scientific research in educational materials, new studies...
Read ItIs academic publishing “just a button”?
Clay Shirky's widely quoted observation that publishing is now “just a button” has divided opinion in among academics. The confusion is due to pun on the word “publishing”, which in academic cir...
Read ItScience is broken. Being open could fix it.
Part 2 from a 2-part series reflecting on lessons learned from OpenCon 2014.
Read ItImproving estimates of the total cost of publication by recognising 'APCs paid in the wild'
This paper describes a case study of how the University of Edinburgh gathered information about open access Article Processing Charges (APCs) that were paid by its affiliated academic authors, with...
Read ItUnconditional data sharing, plus peer review transparency, is key to research reproducibility
This is the shorted version of an article I published on 28.04.2016 on my site, For Better Science. Open Science is these days largely about mandatory publishing in Open Access (OA), regardless of...
Read ItReproducibility in research: How a small field is pioneering a culture of sharing
The ‘reproducibility crisis’ in science appears to be a widespread problem that may have its roots in the ‘publish or perish’ culture of the contemporary academy. Facilitated by a well-developed cu...
Read ItDogmatism and the Scientific Process: A Need for Change
Despite science being a beacon of innovation, invention and new ideas, the process of scientific publication has remained relatively unchanged for the past 250 years (Spier, 2002). Since 1752, the...
Read ItOpen Data and the Free Access to Law Movement in the United States
On 9 May 2013, US President Barack Obama issued Executive Order 13642-Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government - mandating, wherever legally permissible and possible, that US...
Read ItFlipping to Open Access
OSI is a global collaborative effort between major stakeholders in scholarly publishing to improve how research information gets published, shared and accessed. The intiative is a 10-year series of...
Read ItMy problem with ResearchGate
ResearchGate - wow, a social network for scientists and researchers you might think. But think again about the 'wow'. At least I am not so impressed. Here's why... I once created a profile on Resea...
Read ItA Review of MegaJournals
One issue that I've been following for a number of years is so called MegaJournals. Mega journal as defined on Wikipedia. Cue ' Open Access and The Dramatic Growth of PLoS ONE' which I wrote for th...
Read ItPreprints: The Bigger Picture
Preprints have become a popular topic of conversation among publishers, researchers, funders, librarians, technology builders, and service providers. Their attention is spurring explorations into b...
Read ItEvent report - Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?
As my PhD is about attitudes to research sharing infrastructures; this event, with its provocative title, therefore became unmissable. I scrambled to get some funding together with short notice, as...
Read ItHow to start an Open Science revolution! An interview with patient advocate, Graham Steel.
Continuing our Open Science Stars interview series, today we're happy to bring to you Graham Steel, a relentless campaigner for all things Open! Hi Graham, and thanks for joining us here! Could you...
Read ItHow do we build a human-centered open science?
Open science hit the mainstream of discourse in the scientific community in 2016. Here I examine the emerging criticisms leveled against how we publish and disseminate science and argues it may be ...
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