Archive for the ‘Open Access’ Category
Nature Communications or Nature One
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is making its way for PLoS One audience. From April 2010 NPG will be publishing a new online-only journal Nature Communications with an open-access option. According to announcement Nature Communications will publish research papers in all [...]
Theory of Science demands open access
A very interesting article by Gerhard Fröhlich was recently published in Information-Wissenschaft und Praxis. Unfortunately full version of this article appears to be in German as Die Wissenschaftstheorie fordert OPEN ACCESS, but you can read the abstract here Sir Karl [...]
Next Generation Scientific Articles: Reflections on a changing landscape
Michael Nielsen wrote a very interesting argument, Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted? In this article Michael suggested that in coming ten to twenty years, scientific publishers will be technology driven companies and traditional publishing houses will find more [...]
PLoS's volte-face over the impact factor game
For sure impact factor is one of the biggest curse for scientific research but it shows the bitter truth about scientific community as well. Top 2 most visited blog posts on my blog are about impact factor, including the most [...]
PLoS business model 100% self-sufficient by 2010
First PLoS progress report is now available online, you can find key highlights of the report from the PLoS blog. Report includes a fairly detailed section on financial sustainability of PLoS business model. Currently PLoS journals use a business model [...]
Citation Trend Line For PLoS Journals
PLoS One trend lines are quite close to PLoS Computational Biology(CB), now this is very surprising to me and honestly I am very exited about this new development. Recently I was playing with Scopus Journal Analyzer, to find which journal [...]
Open Foo or Open Fool
Why it is so much hard to accept that Open Foo and Open Bar are not above the reality of this world where econometric is a major factor for survival. Commercial viability is one of deadly factor when it comes [...]
Open knowledge dissemination- Unaffordable luxury?
In his letter of June 12 1716 to Royal Society, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek wrote [M]y work, which I’ve done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving [...]
Open =! Free? Open access cranks just don't get it
It all started from Molecular Philosophy blog, he wrote a series of post about Socialism in science (here are direct links to his posts: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4). Although I was not able to manage the time [...]
