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Tag: Open Access

News coverage in India of open access papers

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In a study published in November 2021, Teresa Schultz, of the University of Nevada, Reno, reported that gold, […]

February 5, 2022 Scicomm

Are preprints reliable?

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To quote from a paper published yesterday in PLOS Biology: Does the information shared in preprints typically withstand the scrutiny of […]

February 2, 2022 Analysis, Science

Citations and media coverage

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According to a press release accompanying a just-published study in PLOS ONE: Highly cited papers also tend to […]

July 6, 2020 Science

Preference for OA research by income group

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Two researchers from Rwanda performed a “systematic computational analysis of the biomedical literature” and concluded in their paper that: … […]

August 7, 2019 Op-eds, Scicomm

On that Poynter debate about stock images and ethical visual journalism

Response to Mark Johnson, Article about free images ‘contradicts everything I hold true about journalism’, Poynter, February 9, 2018. ∞ […]

February 17, 2018 Life notes, Op-eds, Tech

Are the papers behind this year’s Nobel Prizes in the public domain?

Note: One of my editors thought this post would work for The Wire as well, so it’s been […]

October 5, 2017 Scicomm

No Space Age for us

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We are proud of ISRO’s being removed from bureaucratic interference and we are also okay with ISRO giving access only to those journalists who have endeared themselves by reproducing press releases.

May 25, 2016 Scicomm

OA shouldn’t stop at access

Joseph Esposito argues in the scholarly kitchen why it’s okay for OA articles (which come with a CC-BY […]

March 18, 2015 Op-eds, Science

India’s OA policy: Learning from Ioannidis

India’s first Open Access policy was drafted by a committee affiliated with the Departments of Biotechnology and Science […]

October 21, 2014 Scicomm, Science

Second draft of India’s OA policy open for comments

The second draft of India’s first Open Access policy is up on the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) website. […]

October 21, 2014 Science

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