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Scientists are in a real bind when it comes to peer review. It’s hard to be objective when we’re all among the peer reviewing and peer-reviewed, or plan to be. Still, we should be able to mobilize science’s repertoire to solve our problems. Yet, … Continue reading
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In theory, science isn’t just self-interested. We’re all driven by curiosity and pure motives to strive together to unlock the secrets of the universe and solve problems. Which is true. But it’s for others to determine whether or not we’ve unlocked or solved anything. … Continue reading
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Posted by in history, journals, open science, science communication, Science culture
We take mental shortcuts about research reports. “I read a study,” we say. We don’t only talk about them as though they are the study – we tend to think of them that way, too. And that’s risky. Even the … Continue reading
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Posted by in journals, open science, Research conduct, Research Reporting, science communication
P is for pandemonium. And a bit of that broke out recently when a psychology journal banned p-values and more, declaring the whole process of significance testing “invalid”. There’s a good roundup of views about this development from statisticians over at the Royal … Continue reading
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Scientists created a rod for their backs when they allowed the journals in which their work is published to become the arbiters of its scientific merit. A small tier of journals locked behind expensive paywalls became the elite of … Continue reading
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It is no secret to those who know me that I am strongly supportive of open access (OA)–published data and personal experience alike show that OA is strongly beneficial to science. That said, it’s not as if we can ignore …
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@phylogenomics any suggestions for appropriate open access journal for a geomicrobio/clay mineral - Cr reduction/ kinetics paper?
— Paul Glasser (@glasserp) August 21, 2012
Well,@glasserp a good place to start is "Directory of Open Access Journals" doaj.org
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) August 21, 2012
Also@glasserp a great tool is Journal/Author Name Estimator "JANE" biosemantics.org/jane/ - w/ "extra options" you can choose access policies
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) August 21, 2012
AndBasically what I was suggesting was two possible steps. The first is to search the Database of Open Access Journals which is a great place to browse to see what the possibilities are. Another great resource/tool is JANE - the Journal/Author Name Estimator. I love Jane and use it all the time (if interested also see the paper on Jane here). The default screen for Jane looks like this:@glasserp for JANE just paste in your abstract or key words and search journals and it will ID good candidates
— Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) August 21, 2012
Posted by in journals, open access