Thursday, February 11, 2016

Are ‘predatory’ journals completely negative, or also a sign of something positive? *

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* This post was first published on the  SciELO in Perspective  blog, on February 2nd, 2016 (and translations in Portuguese and Spanish a...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

Peer Review By Endorsement

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Below is the original proposal that eventually led ScienceOpen to give it a go and make 'Peer Review by Endorsement' a legitimat...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Levelling the Open Access – Paywall Playing Field for Authors

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Early career researchers are often reported to express the view that they face a dilemma. Submit to – and hopefully publish in – an open a...
Tuesday, July 07, 2015

Dealing with information overload*

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Are we overwhelmed by the amount of scientific information that is being published? PubMed adds an average of more than two abstracts a min...
Thursday, May 07, 2015

Keeping the Minutes of Science – Looking back 20 years

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I attended the Royal Society discussions on the Future of Scholarly Scientific Communication, held in two sessions of two ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

How to take peer review out of the clutches of publishers

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You may remember that some time ago I wrote about JONAS – Journals Of Nature And Science – the essence of which was to take peer review ou...
Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Journals of Nature and Science

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Joe Esposito's recent  post on the Scholarly Kitchen prompted me to post the following proposal, which I have discuss...
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