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Are Scientific Journals Self-censoring?
Lagniappe is sounding off on the decision of the major scientific journals to self-censor material which could be used by terrorists. All kinds of things are being done now, that we normally wouldn’t...
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Online, real-time, science commentary
Derek Lowe is dipping into the debate on online science commentary at his site at Corante, In The Pipeline. From the perspective of a graduate student, it’s a fantastic idea. Instead of waiting for the...
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Open Access to Scientific Literature
From HubLog via Open Access News: Physiological Genomics is adopting the Prosser Method of offering open access: Pay to have your article published, leaving all text, figures, and supplementary...
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Where do we go to find answers to the kind of questions you don’t get taught?
It used to be that people would wander in the dusty stacks of the library or old bookstores in search for arcane lore. More recently, it’s been indie artists who seed obscure references into...
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Nature Publishing Group distances themselves from PRISM.
The PRISM Coalition is a fairly unsubtle attempt at obfuscating the issues behind Open Access in scientific publishing, using an approach similar to that employed by the cable and phone companies...
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Open Medicine
Open Medicine. Because access to medical information shouldn’t be limited to wealthy people and those who live near a library or work at a university. From Health vs. Medicine.
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Clearing up the confusion around citations of internet sources
Since I wrote that last post, it has become apparent that there’s a lot of confusion regarding citing material on the internet, which isn’t surprising given that there’s a lot of confusion surrounding...
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More info on Blogging Peer-reviewed Research Reporting
Last week, Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting announced a post-aggregation system for posts discussing peer-reviewed research only. They didn’t give any details of exactly how the...
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I have reservations about WebCite
Via BBGM, I hear of WebCite, an on-demand Wayback Machine for web content cited within academic publications. It’s important to make sure that links to web content in academic publications don’t fail...
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Thompson Scientific has a closed science search engine.
They sent me a survey and asked me some simple questions, but I don’t think they asked me the right ones, so I’m going to give a free-form review here. I think it’s a great idea, and presents some...
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Could this be the Science Social Networking killer app?
There are tons of social tools for scientists online, and the somewhat lukewarm adoption is a subject of occasional discussion on friendfeed. The general consensus is that the online social tools, in...
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I’ve joined Mendeley as Community Liaison.
Reference managers and I have a long history. All the way back in 20041, when I was writing my first paper, my workflow went something like this: “I need to cite Drs. A, B, and C here. Now, where did I...
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Science Blogging Benefits Everyone
My colleague David Crotty has a rant at Bench Marks wherein he suggests that Nature’s blogging advocacy is just a shallow attempt to get more content for Nature Blogs, and that scientists blogging is...
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If I published in or reviewed for PLoS, I’d be pissed off too.
Cameron Neylon responds to the allegations that PLoS is a pay-to-play vanity press: That an author pays model has the potential to create a conflict of interest is clear. That is why, within reputable...
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