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A vision for a better future – using new tools of openness and transparency to improve the scientific process
This is a guest post by Pete Binfield and Jason Hoyt, co-founders of the open access journal PeerJ. I don’t make a habit of running posts from private companies here at Reciprocal Space but have been impressed by the innovative … Continue reading
Impact Factors — the revised RCUK open access guidelines
It has happened. Yesterday RCUK published the revised guidelines on its new open access policy and, as requested by this blog and everyone who signed up in support, the document (PDF) now includes, on page one no less, a statement … Continue reading
Impact Factors — Letter to RCUK
Following my post of last week asking RCUK to include in the guidelines on their new open access policy a statement disavowing the use of impact factors in assessing funding applications, I wanted to thank everyone who registered their support. … Continue reading
Impact factors — RCUK provides a chance to act
If I had more time, this post would be shorter. But it explains how we have an opportunity to get UK research councils to help break the corrosive dependence of researchers on impact factors. Please at least skim all the … Continue reading
Royal Society Meeting on Open Access in the UK: What Willetts Wants
After all the excitement of open access (OA) developments last Friday, there was a chance to take stock this Monday at the Royal Society’s conference on “Open access in the UK and what it means for scientific research”. The meeting, … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access
Tagged David Sweeney, David Willetts, HEFCE, open access, RCUK, Royal Society, Tom Welton
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Continental drift: important open access developments in the UK and US
Last Friday was a big day for open access — it felt like a kind of transition. In the morning the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Lords (the unelected second chamber in the UK parliament) published the … Continue reading
The Royal Institution: not time to move on
Less than a week after the Royal Institution announced that it was contemplating the sale of its historic home in Albermarle Street, Nature published an editorial criticising the 200 year old organisation for having lost its science communication mojo in … Continue reading
Response to House of Commons Committee Call for Evidence on Open Access
This week it is the turn of the House of Commons to investigate the UK policy on open access. No-one seems to be quite sure if they are co-ordinating things with the House of Lords, which was looking into this … Continue reading
Open Access: journey without end?
The Science and Technology Committee of the House of Lords, the second chamber in the UK parliament, met this week to hear evidence from various stakeholders on the implementation of government’s policy on open access. In three separate sessions, which … Continue reading
Response to House of Lords Science and Technology Committee Call for Evidence on Open Access
In the UK the parliamentary House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology is conducting an enquiry into the implementation of the government’s policy on open access. Last Tuesday they took oral evidence from Dame Janet Finch (which you … Continue reading
Year
The Christmas holiday has unmoored me. End of year exhaustion segued into a bout of ‘flu that knocked me onto my back, where I lay and ached, semi-detached by illness and medication as around me my family made preparations for … Continue reading
Posted in Libel Reform, Open Access, Science & Politics, Scientific Life
Tagged CaSE, Libel reform, open access, review, Review of 2012, Science Policy
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Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without Carbon
I may not know much about Chemistry but I know what I like. And I like carbon. In fact, I’ve decided that it’s my favourite element. I’ll tell you why in the short video below, which is part of the … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Protein Crystallography
Tagged Carbon, Royal Institution, science communication
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