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Category Archives: PLoS
Timo Hannay vs. Declan Butler on OA
Here’s a clip from a documentary film by Frances Pinter and David Percy about business models in the publishing world that use Creative Commons licenses where Timo Hannay of Nature is talking about open content (not sure how open content … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Open Access, PLoS, Timo Hannay
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The Year of Evolution in the age of Open Access
Next year, 2009, is the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth (February 12, 1809), as well as being the 150th anniversary of the publication of his masterpiece, “On the Origin of Species” (November 24, 1859). Although much of the upcoming celebrations … Continue reading
Bring on the Open Access journals
Lately I have been pondering a about Jonathan Eisen’s inauguration editorial as the new Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS Biology. Although I have always felt that Open Access (OA) is the way to go I have never seen a … Continue reading
Posted in closed science, Jonathan Eisen, open science, PLoS
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Weird Wired Science posting
The Wired Science Blog has an odd post by Brandon Keim about the recently launched Nature Precedings. It provides a rather erroneous interpretation of what Nature Precedings aims to be and the type of research it will attract. It all … Continue reading
Posted in peer review, PLoS, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Wired News
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Exemplary retraction of high profile paper
The Scientist picked up the up the PLoS retraction story (see the previous post Show me the code). It’s nice to see all the involved parties getting credits for what they did. One can only hope that this event has … Continue reading
Posted in academia, PLoS
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Show me the code
An email came this morning to one of the mailing lists I subscribe to. It goes like so, Dear Colleagues, This to inform you that we must retract Hall, B.G. and S. Salipante. 2007. Measures of clade confidence do not … Continue reading
Posted in academia, computer simulations, PLoS, Sally Otto
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Ten Simple Rules for Fledgling Academics
Over the last two years PloS Computational Biology has been publishing the Ten Simple Rules series by Philip Bourne. So far they have covered… Ten Simple Rules for a Good Poster Presentation (TSRfPP) Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral … Continue reading
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