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The Netherlands supports (with €) open access in science
As reported by BioMed Central, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) will provide €1 million to help scientists develop new open access journals or convert existing journals to...
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Open sharing of scientific data and perverse incentives
From the Wall Street Journal’s online section, a discussion about doing a new kind of discovery and what it might take. My view is that governments should only fund science that is engaged in open...
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On open access – practical issues
Upulie Divisekera, prolific tweeter and all-around awesome scientist, wanted to write a thing about open access and was nice enough to ask me for some help. The result, which you can find on Crikey and...
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Do people outside of universities want to read peer-reviewed journal articles?
I asked a question on Twitter about whether or not people actually tried to read the peer-reviewed journal articles (not just the media releases), and if they encountered paywalls when they tried. This...
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Bohannon’s Science Sting – playing devil’s advocate and proposing a solution
[Update: I realise that perhaps many of you are not going to have the same perspective about the Science Sting that I have purposefully taken here (hence the title). Apologies in advance.] It took a...
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Guerilla open access, public engagement with research, and ivory towers
Despite the growth of open access publishing, there is still a massive and growing archive of peer-reviewed research that is hidden behind paywalls. While academics can reach most of the research they...
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