2015-08-13 14:15
The first introduction to iMed Publishing (iMed.pub) for most people was not a good one.In October 2013, John Bohannon — a self-styled 'gonzo journalist' — announc… Read More
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2014-04-23 16:50
[Updated March 2014, see update below]Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP) is an imprint of Verlag Dr Muller (VDM), a publisher infamous for selling cobbled-together "books" made up of Wikipedi… Read More
2014-03-31 20:05
This is a guest post by Joe DunckleyAcademic publishing, and peer review in particular, was headline news in February -- from stem cell researchers claiming that their work was being sa… Read More
2014-03-31 20:05
This is a guest post by Joe DunckleyThis is an archival repost of something first published elsewhere a year ago.I am not a lawyer, but I do have six years experience of Wikipedia, was… Read More
2014-03-31 20:04
This is a guest post by Joe DunckleyThere are all sorts of ways you could find out about new articles that you might want to read. There's that big room across campus that's full of ol… Read More
2014-03-31 20:04
This is a guest post by Joe DunckleyTo achieve a sufficiently large but distant win, it is worth sacrificing a much smaller but nearer win if it stands in the way or distracts and delay… Read More
2014-03-31 20:04
This is a guest post by Joe DunckleySome old fashioned publishers are still claiming that open-access mandates -- by forcing the publishers to acknowledge that the internet has happened… Read More
2014-03-31 20:04
This is a guest post by Joe DunckleyCatching up with the newsfeeds after a week working in Beijing (where citizens are saved from reading such subversive content as Journalology -- as t… Read More
2014-03-31 20:03
This is a guest post by Joe DunckleyLast year, after Science Online, I wrote a series of posts inspired by Ian Mulvany's question, what is the scientific paper? Those were originally p… Read More
2014-03-31 20:03
This is a guest post by Joe DunckleyOnce again, this is a re-post of something I wrote on my old blog a year ago after the Science Online conference, looking at the future of the scient… Read More
2014-03-31 20:03
This is a guest post by Joe DunckleyContinuing the series exploring the question "what is the scientific paper?", reposted from my old blog, and originally written following Science Onl… Read More
2014-03-31 20:02
This is a guest post by Joe DunckleyCompleting the series exploring the question "what is the scientific paper?", reposted from my old blog, and originally written following Science Online… Read More
2012-12-19 12:31
Loosely following the style of Jeffrey Beall's assessment in The Charleston Advisor of various OA startups, here is an assessment of WebmedCentral, a new post-publication review biomedical j… Read More
2012-09-09 21:04
In mid-August, the AuthorAID mailing list came up with an intriguing case. An author asked "Can you help me? Is this journal is true or fake: "WULFENIA" http://www.wulfeniajournal.at/editori… Read More
2011-01-31 23:07
"It is our effort to instill more rapidity, accountability, and transparency into biomedical publishing". WebmedCentralIt is essential in biomedical publishing to be transparent and accounta… Read More
2010-10-04 21:43
Wikipedia is now one of the most visited websites, and is probably the biggest source of fully free information. Wikipedia and Wikimedia in general fits well in the "open movement" alongside… Read More
2010-10-04 19:51
I'm excited to say I've just started as an Associate Editor with PLoS ONE at the Public Library of Science, after freelancing with them since the beginning of the year.It's interesting timin… Read More
2010-09-17 18:50
Discussing the announcement that the Chinese government is going to crack down on poor quality journals, a Nature editorial puts forward the welcome view that moving towards open access migh… Read More
2010-08-10 11:42
"Evoluating". It's probably an attempt to use the French "évoluer" in English, I think it means "evolving" Read More
2010-08-06 12:18
The Scientist this week tells us that"Peer review isn’t perfect [who knew?]— meet 5 high-impact papers that should have ended up in bigger journals."Wait, what? These high-impact… Read More
2010-07-05 17:39
Well I never. I've been advocating the adoption of open peer review and community peer review for a while now; I didn't expect one of the pioneers of community peer review to be Elsevier, bu… Read More
2010-05-19 15:58
The Charleston Adviser has published an interesting analysis of some of the recent open access 'upstarts', titled "“Predatory” Open-Access Scholarly Publishers". They include so… Read More
2010-05-13 11:12
The authors of a manuscript say their work has been approved by an "intuitional review board". I suppose it just knows when a study is ethical Read More
2010-05-12 17:20
So Bruce Charlton's editorship at Medical Hypotheses comes to an end, and I must raise a small cheer. Schadenfreude is an ugly thing, but this journal was a boon to fringe 'scientists' every… Read More
2010-03-03 21:43
Peter Suber, the guru of open access, has challenged readers of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter to come up with a new word.English speakers need a verb that means "to provide OA to". It sh… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
This is a guest post by Joe DunckleyGuys, are you sure you've thought this through? I mean, they're nice. They're fun. Data is fun. Seeing that somebody somewhere has read something… Read More
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