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Category Archives: The Cathedral and the Bazaar
F1000 review: Open science is a research accelerator
As promised previously, today the following post-publication evaluation of Open Science is a research accelerator by Michael Woelfle, Piero Olliaro and Matthew H. Todd appeared in Faculty of 1000 Biology: Pineda-Krch, M. Faculty of 1000 Biology, 14 November 2011 http://f1000.com/13352995 It is commonly taken for granted that difficult … Continue reading
Turbo charged Open Science: this sort of thing is my bag, baby
A remarkable commentary appeared today in Nature Chemistry entitled Open Science is a research accelerator. In this commentary Michael Woelfle, Piero Olliaro and Matthew H. Todd describe a case study of an Open Science research project they conducted with the aim devising an alternative … Continue reading
2nd place for evolution and ecology at Nature Preceedings
I payed a visit to Nature Preceedings today and was happy to see that ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB) is in second place in term of number of submissions that are categorized under this subject. For a while EEB seemed … Continue reading
Interview with Timo Hannay of Nature Publishing Group
John Dupuis of the Confessions of a Science Librarian has posted an interview with the Head of Web Publishing at Nature Publishing Group, Timo Hannay. It’s a long and frank interview where Timo discusses everything from his background in neurophysiology, … Continue reading
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
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Nature Precedings: first research Bazaar on the block!
On the Nascent blog (Nature’s blog on web technology and science) a post was just published (Coming soon: Nature Precedings) about an upcoming new service that… will enable researchers to share, discuss and cite their early findings. It provides a … Continue reading
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Ten reasons for a Cathedral model of scientific research
So why is it that the majority of researchers still follow the the Cathedral model of scientific research. Here are some possible reasons I can think of, I am sure others could be added but I think this probably captures … Continue reading
The academic Cathedral and the Bazaar
There is an Editorial in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (14, 457; 2007) entitled New data at conferences, please pleading to the academic community to only present new results at conferences. The basic idea is that discussions and dialogs ensuing … Continue reading
