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Please address these concerns before we can accept your #OA proposal
Björn
Brembs
March 22, 2017
Below, I’ve taken the liberty to “peer-review” recent proposals to ‘flip’ subscription journals to open access The applicants have provided an interesting proposal of how to ‘flip’ the current subscription journals to an article processing charges (APC)-based ‘gold’ open access […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Why can Elsevier keep insulting scholars without consequences?
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Why can Elsevier keep insulting scholars without consequences?
Björn
Brembs
October 3, 2017
Academic publishers in general and Elsevier in particular have a reputation for their ruthless profiteering, using professional negotiators pitting hapless librarians against their own faculty during journal subscription negotiations. Consequently, these companies boast profit margins of over 40%, when the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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With the access issue temporarily solved, what now?
Björn
Brembs
September 27, 2017
After almost 25 years since Stevan Harnad’s “subversive proposal“, now, finally, scholars and the public have a range of avenues at their disposal to access nearly every scholarly article. Public access, while not the default, has finally arrived. Granted, while […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Looking for a PhD student
Björn
Brembs
July 10, 2017
Our lab is looking for a PhD student interested in the molecular mechanisms of operant self-learning, a form of motor learning. The work will mainly revolve around the FoxP gene – the Drosophila orthologue of the language-associated gene FOXP2 in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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7 functionalities the scholarly literature should have
Björn
Brembs
August 1, 2017
As a regular user of the scholarly literature since before the internet (I started reading primary scientific literature for a high-school project around 1989), I have closely followed its digitization. I find it rather frustrating that some of the most […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Is a cost-neutral transition to open access realistic?
Björn
Brembs
November 29, 2017
Current estimates for the cost of subscription articles converge around US$5,000 per article. This number is reached by dividing the estimated US$10b spent on subscriptions annually world-wide by the two million published articles every year. Current initiatives aiming for a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Automated Linked Open Data Publishing
Björn
Brembs
October 31, 2018
On the occasion of the first “BigDataDay” at our university, I have summarized on the below poster our two main efforts to automate the publication of our tiny raw data. On the left is our project automating Buridan data deposition […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Why open access Big Deals are worse than subscriptions
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Why open access Big Deals are worse than subscriptions
Björn
Brembs
April 13, 2018
Notwithstanding the barrage of criticisms and warnings from every corner of the scholarly community, various initiatives, mainly in the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, France and the UK, continue their efforts for a smooth transition from subscriptions to open access without any […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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After 24 years, when will academic culture finally shift?
Björn
Brembs
May 24, 2018
It’s now been 24 years since Stevan Harnad sparked the open access movement by suggesting in his “subversive proposal” in 1994 that scholars ought to just publish their scholarly articles on the internet: If every esoteric author in the world […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
The scholarly commons: from profiteering to servicing
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The scholarly commons: from profiteering to servicing
Björn
Brembs
October 5, 2017
These days, many academic publishers can be considered mere Pinos: ‘Publishers in name only’. Instead of making scholarly work, commonly paid for by the public, public, as the moniker ‘publisher’ would imply, in about 80% of the cases, they put […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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Dopamine in optogenetic self-stimulation and CRISPR editing of FoxP
Björn
Brembs
November 2, 2018
This year we have two posters at the SfN meeting in sunny San Diego, Ca. The first poster is on Sunday morning, Nov. 4, poster number 152.09, board QQ7, entitled “Neurobiological mechanisms of spontaneous behavior and operant feedback in Drosophila“. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Dopamine in optogenetic self-stimulation and CRISPR editing of FoxP
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Maybe try another kind of mandate?
Björn
Brembs
November 28, 2018
Over the last ten years, scientific funding agencies across the globe have implemented policies which force their grant recipients to behave in a compliant way. For instance, the NIH OA policy mandates that research articles describing research they funded must […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
Maybe try another kind of mandate?
Why academic journals need to go
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Why academic journals need to go
Björn
Brembs
January 16, 2018
In his fantastic Peters Memorial Lecture on occasion of receiving CNI‘s Paul Evan Peters award, Herbert Van de Sompel of Los Alamos National Laboratory described my calls to drop subscriptions as “radical” and “extremist” (starting at about minute 58): Scholarly […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry...
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