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SummerScienceVideo: fruit fly research
Björn
Brembs
August 5, 2013
As part of my scheduled re-posts during the summer break, I’ll also post some of the science videos from the archives. I originally posted these two on February 24, 2013: The first one is a TED talk by Michael Dickinson […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
SummerScienceVideo: fruit fly research
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What happens to publishers that don’t maximize their profit?
Björn
Brembs
June 19, 2015
Lately, there has been some public dreaming going on about how one could just switch to open access publishing by converting subscription funds to author processing charges (APCs) and we’d have universal open access and the whole world would rejoice. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
What happens to publishers that don’t maximize their profit?
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Even without retractions, ‘top’ journals publish the least reliable science
Björn
Brembs
January 12, 2016
tl;dr: Data from thousands of non-retracted articles indicate that experiments published in higher-ranking journals are less reliable than those reported in ‘lesser’ journals. Vox health reporter Julia Belluz has recently covered the reliability of peer-review. In her follow-up piece, she […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Even without retractions, ‘top’ journals publish the least reliable science
Björn
Brembs
January 12, 2016
How much should a scholarly article cost the taxpayer?
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How much should a scholarly article cost the taxpayer?
Björn
Brembs
January 7, 2016
tl;dr: It is a waste to spend more than the equivalent of US$100 in tax funds on a scholarly article. Collectively, the world’s public purse currently spends the equivalent of US$~10b every year on scholarly journal publishing. Dividing that by […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience
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Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience
Björn
Brembs
February 25, 2016
Stevan Harnad’s “Subversive Proposal” came of age last year. I’m now teaching students younger than Stevan’s proposal, and yet, very little has actually changed in these 21 years. On the contrary, one may even make the case that while efforts […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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How gold open access may make things worse
Björn
Brembs
April 7, 2016
Due to ongoing discussions on various (social) media, this is a mash-up of several previous posts on the strategy of ‘flipping’ our current >30k subscription journals to an author-financed open access corporate business model. I consider this article processing charge […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Why haven’t we already canceled all subscriptions?
Björn
Brembs
May 20, 2016
The question in the title is serious: of the ~US$10 billion we collectively pay publishers annually world-wide to hide publicly funded research behind paywalls, we already know that only between 200-800 million go towards actual costs. The rest goes towards […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
So your institute went cold turkey on publisher X. What now?
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So your institute went cold turkey on publisher X. What now?
Björn
Brembs
December 20, 2016
With the start of the new year 2017, about 60 universities and other research institutions in Germany are set to lose subscription access to one of the main STEM publishers, Elsevier. The reason being negotiations of the DEAL consortium (600 […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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In which a Science editorial demonstrates the ineffectiveness of OA activism
Björn
Brembs
April 29, 2016
In her recent editorial on Sci-Hub (an initiative I support), editor-in-chief of Science Magazine Marcia McNutt wrote: For those who have such avenues but choose to pirate a paper instead, ask yourself whether it is worth risking the viability of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Open Science: Too much talk, too little action
Björn
Brembs
February 3, 2017
Starting this year, I will stop traveling to any speaking engagements on open science (or, more generally, infrastructure reform), as long as these events do not entail a clear goal for action. I have several reasons for this decision, most […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Come do research with us!
Björn
Brembs
August 1, 2017
At the end of this year, our amazing postdoc Axel is going back to Argentina to start his own lab. This means we are looking for a new postdoc to start next year. Earliest starting date is February 11, 2018. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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How to convince faculty to support subscription cancellations
Björn
Brembs
March 31, 2017
There have been repeated online discussions about my suggestion to libraries that now would be an excellent time to start cancelling subscriptions. Prime counter-argument is that librarians risked their jobs or at least face faculty backlash if they did that. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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