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A study justifying waste of tax-funds?
Björn Brembs April 29, 2015
doi:10.59350/gh2s1-k9728
Open Access (OA) pioneer and OA journal eLife founding member and sponsor, the Max Planck Society just released a white paper (PDF) analyzing open access costs in various countries and institutions and comparing them to subscription costs. Such studies are […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Is DIY really just for the scholarly poor?
Björn Brembs March 31, 2015
doi:10.59350/sqjb4-san04
Writing in the latest issue of Lab Times, Alex Reis portraits two sections of ‘do-it-yourself’ in the biosciences. One is the group of ‘citizen scientists’, some of which are organized in DIYbio. The other group covered is that of cash-strapped biologists who […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Are more retractions due to more scrutiny?
Björn Brembs June 18, 2015
doi:10.59350/jgggm-t5x67
In the last “Science Weekly” podcast from the Guardian, the topic was retractions.  At about 20:29 into the episode, Hannah Devlin asked, whether the reason ‘top’ journals retract more articles may be because of increased scrutiny there. The underlying assumption […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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What goes into making a scientific manuscript public?
Björn Brembs June 11, 2015
doi:10.59350/wkxz1-71976
Currently, our libraries are paying about US$5000 per peer-reviewed subscription article. What is more difficult to find out is where all that money goes. Which steps are required to make an accepted manuscript public? Because of their high-throughput (about 1200 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Evidence-resistant science leaders?
Björn Brembs July 20, 2015
doi:10.59350/jvg28-t1e78
Last week, I spent two days at a symposium entitled “Governance, Performance & Leadership of Research and Public Organizations“. The meeting gathered professionals from all walks of science and research: economists, psychologists, biologists, epidemiologists, engineers, jurists as well as politicians, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Whither now, Open Access?
Björn Brembs June 23, 2015
doi:10.59350/3mwpr-v8351
The recently discussed scenario of universal gold open access brought about by simply switching the subscriptions funds at libraries to have the libraries pay for author processing charges instead, seemed like a ghoulish nightmare. One of the few scenarios worse […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Predatory Priorities
Björn Brembs October 23, 2015
doi:10.59350/b8w2d-pre25
Over the last few months, there has been a lot of talk about so-called “predatory publishers”, i.e., those corporations which publish journals, some or all of  which purport to peer-review submitted articles, but publish articles for a fee without actual […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Chance in animate nature, day 2
Björn Brembs November 11, 2015
doi:10.59350/fe5ns-pct71
While the first day (day 2, day 3) was dominated by philosophy, mathematics and other abstract discussions of chance, this day of our symposium started with a distinct biological focus. Martin Heisenberg, Chance in brain and behavior First speaker for […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Earning credibility in post-factual science?
Björn Brembs February 2, 2016
doi:10.59350/cc9hb-21877
What do these two memes have in common? While they may have more than one thing in common, the point important for now is that despite both having an air of plausibility or ‘truthiness’ around them, they’re both false: neither […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Just how widespread are impact factor negotiations?
Björn Brembs January 8, 2016
doi:10.59350/4zbhe-k5036
Over the last decade or two, there have been multiple accounts of how publishers have negotiated the impact factors of their journals with the “Institute for Scientific Information” (ISI), both before it was bought by Thomson Reuters and after. This […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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So many symptoms, only one disease: a public good in private hands
Björn Brembs September 17, 2015
doi:10.59350/7tw94-qme49
Science has infected itself (voluntarily!) with a life-threatening parasite. It has  given away its crown jewels, the scientific knowledge contained in the scholarly archives, to entities with orthogonal interests: corporate publishers whose fiduciary duty is not knowledge dissemination or scholarly communication, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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How to write your grant proposal?
Björn Brembs December 4, 2015
doi:10.59350/4qk6y-cw767
Posting my reply to a review of our most recent grant proposal has sparked an online discussion both on Twitter and on Drugmonkey’s blog. The main direction the discussion took was what level of expertise to expect from the reviewers […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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