Self-motivated vs. mandated archiving
My post last week about citation rates of mandated vs. self-selected Open Accessfulfills resulted in an interesting discussion thanks to...
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New in PLoS ONE: Citation rates of self-selected vs. mandated Open Access
PLoS ONE today published a paper very relevant to Open Access Week (which started today): Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, Gingras Y, Carr L, Brody T, Harnad S. Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation...
In which I suggest a preprint archive for clinical trials
The ArXiv preprint archive for research articles in physics, mathematics, computer science and related disciplines was initiated by Paul Ginsparg...
New on Arxiv: first report of SOAP open access publishing project
Practically all papers in high-energy physics (> 90% since the late 1990s) are first published on the ArXiv preprint server. Several related disciplines also have a long ArXiv tradition. But ArXiv is also an excellent source...
Reference Management with the iPad
The iPad was released six months ago, and we already have several reference managers available for the platform. Reading the PDF of a scientific paper on an iPad is a positive experience, and to me very...
Advice for scientists who want to become Wikipedia editors
This week PLoS Computational Biology published another helpful editorial in their 10 Simple Rules collection (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000941): Ten Simple Rules for Editing Wikipedia. I have very rarely edited Wikipedia articles...