Here’s an interesting happening that is a good example to learn from.. A paper was retracted because the data it relied on was embargoed – that is to say the…
A month or so ago I was lying in hospital in terrible pain, or floating on a morphine cloud, listening to youtube videos to distract myself. Somehow I fell onto…
There has been a lot of kerfuffle in the world of Open Access to Scholarship around Plan S. I’ve written about it myself, generally pretty positively. However, I’m always ready…
This blog is often me thinking by writing, and I’m having some thoughts on ethics, AI and discrimination. They are pretty bullet point type things now, and I hope I…
It can be harder to spot a journal that will provide questionable value for you as an author than you might think. This post provides a few things to think…
I’ve been in trouble with the Publisher’s Association before, so it may happen again with this. Trawling through Christmas time Facebook, where its mostly baby Yoda memes and pictures of…
The following article appeared in Nature, and I made a long response to it on the Australian OA Community email list, I thought I’d repost it here. Predatory journals: no…
I wrote this some time ago, and it remained in my pending queue. I’ve finally finished it. LIANZA members should be obligated to publish in Open Access Journals, through the…
I wrote about Plan S when it first came out. I was so pleased to see something with a real timeline, that addressed the right issues (moving to real OA,…
Note: this is an opinion, and I’d be glad of research that proves me wrong. Or right. That would be nice too. In talking with researchers about OA for the…