According to a press release accompanying a just-published study in PLOS ONE: Highly cited papers also tend to receive more media attention, although the cause of the association is unclear. One reason I can think of is a confounding factor…
Tag: Open Access
Preference for OA research by income group
Two researchers from Rwanda performed a “systematic computational analysis of the biomedical literature” and concluded in their paper that: … papers with authors based in sub-Saharan Africa, papers with authors based in low income countries, and papers resulting from international collaboration are…
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. ∞ Let's get the caveats out of the way: The article to which Johnson is responding did get some of its messaging wrong.…
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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 republished there. "… for the greatest benefit of mankind" – these words are scrawled across a banner that adorns the Nobel Prize's…
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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 republished there. "… for the greatest benefit of mankind" – these words are scrawled across a banner that adorns the Nobel Prize's…
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No Space Age for us
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.
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 license) to be repackaged and then sold for a price by other merchants once they're out in a paper. The economic incentive to…
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 license) to be repackaged and then sold for a price by other merchants once they're out in a paper. The economic incentive to…
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 & Technology (DBT/DST) in early 2014. It hasn’t been implemented yet. Its first draft accepted comments on its form and function on…
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 & Technology (DBT/DST) in early 2014. It hasn’t been implemented yet. Its first draft accepted comments on its form and function on…
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. Until November 17, 2014, DBT Adviser Mr. Madhan Mohan will receive comments on the policy's form and function, after which a course…
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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. Until November 17, 2014, DBT Adviser Mr. Madhan Mohan will receive comments on the policy's form and function, after which a course…
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