The Story Behind the Paper: Climate Change and Kelp Forest Food Webs
Yay! First paper of my postdoc is out in the August 2011 issue of Global Change Biology! Woohoo! So, what have I been doing for the past few years of my life? In brief summary: Kelp. Food webs. Climate...
View ArticleA Vision for the Future of Scholarly Publishing
In many ways, the Research Works Act has been a blessing (see excellent link round up here). It has taken the moderately complacent but always grousing scientific community and whipped our feelings...
View ArticleOpen Haus: The Future of Scholarly Publishing
Today at The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis we’re having an open discussion about the future of scholarly publishing. I may post some notes from it later, but, Stephanie Pau and...
View ArticleOpen Haus Conclusion: Peer Review or Bust!
Friday’s NCEAS discussion about changing the future of scientific publishing was fascinating. We had a wide variety of views about the current system, what it’s adding to our papers, if the problems...
View ArticlePost-Publication Commentary – a Google Hangout Discussion
After the fantastic NCEAS working group on the future of scholarly publishing in EEB (big success – stay tuned for more news on that front!), I participated in a really interesting online discussion...
View ArticleI want to know what *YOU* think about review, preprints, and publication
As part of the OpenPub project, we’re soliciting folk to send us videos about their experience with the scholarly publication process. We want to use these to try and crowdfund the development of...
View ArticleA Preprint Experiment: Four Pillars and a Foundation for the Future of...
x-post from the OpenPub Project blog So, we got together, had two working group meetings to discuss the future of scholarly publishing in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and the Earth and Ocean...
View ArticleBest Peer Review Experience Ever
So, I recently submitted a piece regarding the future of scholarly publishing in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Simultaneous to posting, I put up a preprint in PeerJ Preprints and also put it on...
View ArticlePeerJ Turns One!
x-posted from openpub One year ago, one of the more intereting experiments in open access publishing – PeerJ – launched. It’s model of membership rather than paying by the article is still something...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to ISI Web of Knowledge, Google Scholar, and SciVerse Scopus
A bit of context first. This letter arose as a result of discussions regarding citations practices in meta-analyses on Twitter several weeks ago. We all agreed citations of work within meta-analyses...
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