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Author Archives: Stephen
Elsevier Break Dance
Lately, it’s all been getting a bit intense. Not tetchy, as at the Scholarly Kitchen in recent days, but still pretty focused. Four of the last five posts here have all been about the arguments surrounding the Elsevier boycott and … Continue reading
An Open Letter to Elsevier
Since the beginning of the argument with Elsevier over their support of the Research Works Act (RWA) in the US and the announcement of the boycott of the publisher, I have been keen to stimulate dialogue. Elsevier seems to be interested … Continue reading
How to access Open Access?
My train of thought is still running. Last week, taken aback by the revelation of Elsevier’s deep support for the Research Works Act, an anti open-access piece of US legislation, I declined to review a manuscript for the publisher and … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access, Scientific Life
Tagged elsevier, open access, Research Works Act, RWA
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Guest post: Society Journals and the Research Works Act
My previous post on Elsevier and the Research Works Act (RWA) stimulated a conversation on Twitter with Benoit Bruneau about the possible impact on the journals of scientific societies of moves to open access publishing. This is an aspect of … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access, Science, Scientific Life
Tagged Benoit Bruneau, elsevier, open access, Research Works Act, RWA, Scientific Societies
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Why I chose to decline an invitation to review by Elsevier
All relationships suffer tensions from time to time, especially those based on love-hate. Scientists have a complex relationship with their publishers — they love to get published in high-impact journals (most of which are run by major publishing companies) but … Continue reading
Posted in Open Access, Science, Scientific Life
Tagged elsevier, love-hate, open access, science publishing
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More on Willetts’ Speech
In the days following Willetts’ big science policy speech, there had been a piece in Nature by Daniel Sarewitz and letters from disgruntled physical scientists to the EPSRC that in different ways highlighted the role of scientists in directing research funding. I was … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Science & Politics
Tagged Science Policy
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Moving Molecules
Regular readers will know that molecules are my thing, that my scientific endeavours are devoted to revealing the intricate architecture of proteins — the molecular machines that sustain life. They will also know that I have at times struggled with the … Continue reading
Posted in Protein Crystallography, Science
Tagged Animation, Drew Berry, molecules, Protein Crystallography
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From the pedestal – take 3
Earlier this week I had an interesting email from Jesse Shore, President of Australian Science Communicators, about a blog post I wrote back in 2010. Jesse has kindly agreed to let me post our brief correspondence so I’ll let him … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Science, Scientific Life
Tagged peer review, science communication
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The Case for Support
If you are a scientist and you want some money to spend on research, as part of the grant application you have to write a case for support. It has to be good. You need to describe why the problem … Continue reading
Work and Energy
It has been a quiet week in lab woebegone*. Though we have been working to pack up everything for a move across campus in mid-January, Christmas has intervened to scatter us to our homes, where traditionally we have the time … Continue reading
Jam Yesterday
On a grey day back in October I made my way along Albemarle Street to the Royal Institution for the filming of DemoJam, a lively and light-hearted program of science produced by Jonathan Sanderson and the rest of the gang … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Protein Crystallography, Science
Tagged RI Channel, Royal Institution, Video
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