The growing divide between higher and low impact scientific journals
BRAIN'S IDEA,
Ten years ago the Public Library of Science started one big lower impact and a series of smaller higher impact journals. Over…
From the NY Times: Biologists went rogue and publish directly on the Internet
SciELO in Perspective,
The ASAP Bio conference held in February at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, US, brought together biomedicine researchers…
From the NY Times: Biologists went rogue and publish directly on the Internet
Research Blogging - All Topics - English,
The ASAP Bio conference held in February at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, US, brought together biomedicine researchers…
Make your voice heard on preprints in biology
The ASCB Post - Science News, Comment, Sicentific Intelligence and Blogs,
The primary job of a scientist is to discover knowledge and communicate it to the community. Unfortunately, while technology is…
White label: the growth of bioRxiv
quantixed,
bioRxiv, the preprint server for biology, recently turned 2 years old. This seems a good point to take a look at how bioRxiv has …
Pre-print power
Marmorkrebs,
Pre-prints are, of course, yesterday’s news in some circles. They are nothing new for the physics community, which has been…
So many symptoms, only one disease: a public good in private hands
bjoern.brembs.blog,
Science has infected itself (voluntarily!) with a life-threatening parasite. It has given away its crown jewels, the…
Peer review, preprints and the speed of science
Science: Occam's corner | guardian.co.uk,
Peer review is often claimed to be the guarantor of the trustworthiness of scientific papers, but it is a troubled process.
Peer review, preprints and the speed of science
Science: Occam's corner | guardian.co.uk,
Peer review is often claimed to be the guarantor of the trustworthiness of scientific papers, but it is a troubled process.
"Accelerating Scientific Publication in Biology"
DigitalKoans,
Ronald D Vale has self-archived "Accelerating Scientific Publication in Biology." Here's an excerpt: Our analysis suggests that…
Open Science News – 17 July 2015
Discussions – F1000 Research,
Today and tomorrow the Future of Research meeting is taking place in San Francisco. You can find a report from their first…
Pre-prints: just do it?
Reciprocal Space,
There is momentum building behind the adoption of pre-print servers in the life sciences. Ron Vale, a professor of cellular and…
Thoughts on Ron Vale’s ‘Accelerating Scientific Publication in Biology’
Michael Eisen's Open Science Blog,
Ron Vale has posted a really interesting piece on BioRxiv arguing for changes in scientific publishing. The piece is part data…
Accelerating Scientific Publication in Biology
Haldane's Sieve,
Accelerating Scientific Publication in…
Accelerating Scientific Publication in Biology
gcbias,
Accelerating Scientific Publication in…
Creep Diets: Fewer papers published at JCB
quantixed,
A couple of years ago, a colleague sent me this picture* to say “who put J Cell Biol on a diet?”. I joked that maybe they…
Increasing Requirements for Publication
Stochastic Trend,
From "Accelerating Scientific Publication in Biology":Somewhat tongue – in - cheek, let’s imagine a contemporary editorial…