There is a buzz of expectancy waiting for the announcement of this year’s Fields Medal for mathematics, always assuming that they award…
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Publishing Fields of dreams
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Publishing The first ten days
PLoS ONE has been accepting submissions for just over 10 days now and I’m really pleased by the number of people who…
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Publishing Gender in science
Discussion about the distribution and relative career success of women in science has a long history and seem unlikely to reach a…
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Publishing It’s a Bio.IT World
There is a nice article ‘Science Publishing and the Web‘ in the August issue of Bio.IT World. It talks about various initiatives…
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Publishing 1086 and all that
Friday was an historic day. Not only did PLoS ONE open its door for submissions but also the Domesday Book went online…
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Publishing PLoS folk at CC Salon
A quick note for your diaries. This coming Wednesday a couple of my close friends and colleagues will be talking at a…
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Publishing PLoS ONE is open
It is a bit late here in the UK for blogging but this can’t wait. PLoS ONE is now accepting submissions. The…
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Publishing Nature troubled by Reproduction
There was a very nice News Feature in Nature last week on the problems of reproducibility in scientific papers. This isn’t the…
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Publishing Opening Access to PhD theses
Things are very busy around here right now so no time for any serious blogging I’m afraid. We are in the last…
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Publishing Help shape the future
Now is your chance to get very actively involved in the creation of TOPAZ, the new Open Source publishing platform which PLoS…
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Publishing English wine and global warming
I simply must point everyone to one of the best pieces of science blogging that I have seen. Gavin Schmidt at RealClimate…
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Publishing Responding to the CCC
The Creator’s Copyright Coalition (CCC) has a post on its site relating to the Economist Article “Creative Destruction in the Library”. I…