Category Archives: Scientific Publishing

Elsevier again, and collective action

Posted on May 3, 2014 by aram

We all know about higher education being squeezed financially. Government support is falling and tuition is going up. We see academic jobs getting scarcer, and more temporary. The pressure for research to focus on the short term is going up. … Continue reading →

Posted in $$$, Science 2.0, Scientific Publishing | 19 Comments

TQC 2014!

Posted on February 9, 2014 by aram

While many of us are just recovering from QIP, I want to mention that the submission deadline is looming for the conference TQC, which perhaps should be called TQCCC because its full name is Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and … Continue reading →

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Are articles in high-impact journals more like designer handbags, or monarch butterflies?

Posted on December 11, 2013 by chb

US biologist Randy Schekman, who shared this year’s physiology and medicine Nobel prize, has made prompt use of his new bully pulpit. In How journals like Nature, Cell and Science are damaging science: The incentives offered by top journals distort … Continue reading →

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El Naschie works on entanglement now

Posted on April 24, 2013 by sflammia

The Journal of Quantum Information Science will not be getting any of my papers starting today, because today is when I learned that they recently published the following gem: A Resolution of Cosmic Dark Energy via a Quantum Entanglement Relativity Theory, by … Continue reading →

Posted in Funny Ha Ha, Open Science, Physics Bastardizations, Quantum Basterdizations, Scientific Publishing | 10 Comments

Science Code Manifesto

Posted on December 29, 2012 by sflammia

Recently, one of the students here at U. Sydney and I had the frustrating experience of trying to reproduce a numerical result from a paper, but it just wasn’t working. The code used by the authors was regrettably not made … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, Programming, Scientific Publishing | 3 Comments

Funding boost for the arXiv

Posted on August 28, 2012 by sflammia

This is fantastic news: starting this January, the Simons Foundation will provide the Cornell University Library with up to US $300k per year (for the next five years) of matching funds to help ensure the continued sustainability of arXiv.org. The funds are … Continue reading →

Posted in $$$, Economics, Open Science, Scientific Publishing | 4 Comments

The Nine Circles of LaTeX Hell

Posted on March 12, 2012 by sflammia

Poorly written LaTeX is like a rash. No, you won’t die from it, but it needlessly complicates your life and makes it difficult to focus on pertinent matters. The victims of this unfortunate blight can be both the readers, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Off The Deep End, Scientific Publishing | 46 Comments

A Federal Mandate for Open Science

Posted on February 9, 2012 by sflammia

Witness the birth of the Federal Research Public Access Act: “The Federal Research Public Access Act will encourage broader collaboration among scholars in the scientific community by permitting widespread dissemination of research findings.  Promoting greater collaboration will inevitably lead to … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Science, Politics, Science 2.0, Scientific Publishing, Society | 2 Comments

Why boycott Elsevier?

Posted on January 27, 2012 by aram

Everyone has their own reasons for doing this. There is an interesting debate at Gower’s blog, including a response from an Elsevier employee. Some people dislike Elsevier’s high prices, their bundling practices, their fake medical journals, their parent company’s (now-former) … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Open Science, Science 2.0, Scientific Publishing | 19 Comments

strike!

Posted on January 17, 2012 by aram

In a move that will undoubtedly bring the US Senate to its knees, the Quantum Pontiff is going dark from 8am to 8pm EST on Jan 18 to protest SOPA, PIPA, the Research Works Act and other proposed acts of … Continue reading →

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