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Journalology: Joining PLoS ONE

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Science publishing trends, ethics, peer review, and open access. Excited to say I've just started as an Associate Editor with PLoS ONE. At the Public Library of Science, after freelancing with them since the beginning of the year. It's interesting timing in the wake of a surge in submissions post- Impact Factor. And the recent brickbats hurled at the journal by PZ Myers. But I'm looking forward to helping the journal go from strength to strength. Public library of science. October 23, 2010. Dear Matt, Im...

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C.H.I.L.I. Interns at Yale: January 2013

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CHILI Interns at Yale. Hill Regional Career High School interns explore health information careers such as medical librarianship at the Yale Medical Library with the help of Mr. Charles Greenberg and other staff members. The interns are given the opportunity to see how library staff access, manage, and apply medical research and interact with those on the Yale Medical Campus who work hands on with research. Thursday, January 31, 2013. After getting to know her a little better, she showed me around the li...

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Renaissance Man - Open Access & Social Justice Advocacy: May 2010

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Google Website Translator Gadget. Saturday, May 8, 2010. Equality in the Mountain State - Economics and Fairness Drive Social Justice Reforms at Research Universities. However, other options may exist for institutions like WVU to seek competitive bids from health insurance providers other than PEIA. In a growing trend, other county governments, most recently,. If PEIA is serious about retaining WVU as its largest customer, they will either wake up and smell the coffee and walk the path of reform or be le...

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Renaissance Man - Open Access & Social Justice Advocacy: October 2010

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Google Website Translator Gadget. Thursday, October 21, 2010. Global outreach through open access – bridging the knowledge divide. West Virginia University has a long tradition of supporting open access to scholarly communications. Of special significance is a prediction made in 1996 by Chief Jake Swamp of the Mohawk Nation at the West Virginia University Peace Tree Ceremony where he made a profound statement about open access. In 2009, Chief Jake Swamp’s prediction served as a dedication to the &#...

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Renaissance Man - Open Access & Social Justice Advocacy: February 2012

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Google Website Translator Gadget. Tuesday, February 7, 2012. SOPA – cancer of the free Web. SOPA, the “Stop Online Piracy Act” and PIPA, the “Protect Intellectual Property Act” threatened to be the “cancer to the free Web”, as put by Cheezburger Network CEO Ben Huh when he announced on Twitter. This Luddite, short-sighted and ill-conceived approach is driven by the powerful corporate media sector and will inhibit all notions of personal freedom of speech. According to Forbes Magazine. 8221; The answer is...

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Renaissance Man - Open Access & Social Justice Advocacy: April 2010

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Google Website Translator Gadget. Monday, April 19, 2010. The jig is up – Morgantown WV says “repeal don’t ask, don’t tell”. Morgantown, West Virginia rocked the night away the evening of April 17th for the “Repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” campaign at Vice Versa Club’s annual Military Ball. Hundreds of locals gathered to sign postcards for Senator Byrd and other elected officials to ask them to repeal DADT. I was on hand representing. Another ally, we'll call her "Mary", from West Virginia, is presently se...

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Journalology: What is the scientific paper? 1: Observations

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Science publishing trends, ethics, peer review, and open access. What is the scientific paper? This is a guest post by Joe Dunckley. Last year, after Science Online, I wrote a series of posts inspired by Ian Mulvany's question,. What is the scientific paper? Those were originally posted on my old blog; now, with SoLo approaching once again, seems like a good time to revisit them, while migrating them over to. Science Online charged us with answering the question, what is the scientific paper? A journal w...

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Journalology: Incentivising academic fraud

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Science publishing trends, ethics, peer review, and open access. This is a guest post by. Catching up with the newsfeeds after a week working in Beijing (where citizens are saved from reading such subversive content as Journalology. As they are all Blogspot blogs), I notice the Economist. Discussing academic fraud in China. It attempts to explain China's fraud epidemic focus on incentives:. Nor does a lack of disincentives in China explain why they stand out. Fraud is rarely satisfactorily punished a...

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Journalology: Open access: the saviour for Chinese journals?

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Science publishing trends, ethics, peer review, and open access. Open access: the saviour for Chinese journals? Discussing the announcement that the Chinese government is going to crack down on poor quality journals, a. Puts forward the welcome view that moving towards open access might be the best approach for Chinese publishers:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. The views and opinions in this blog are those of the poster alone. A note on responses:. It won't be posted.