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Tea Party-led Super PAC Coalition Seeks to Limit US Research to US Taxpayers
A surprising new coalition of Tea Party and US-first activists begin an effort to limit US taxpayer-funded research to US taxpayers. Will it succeed?
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@RickyPo This was an April Fool's idea back in 2012.
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Transparent review in preprints
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today announced a new pilot project—Transparent Review in Preprints (TRiP)—that enables journals and peer review services to post peer reviews of submitted manuscripts on CSHL’s preprint server bioRxiv. “The new...
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Caldera IS, LLC
"It is possible that reviews commissioned by a journal will be displayed alongside papers the journal ultimately chooses not to publish."
That could apply to 32% of bioRxiv preprints. Talk about a disincentive.
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The Geyser -- Strategic Insights and More
A newsletter about strategy, technology, publishing, non-profits, academia, and other things.
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Caldera IS, LLC
Very happy to report that "The Geyser" now officially has *hundreds* of subscribers!
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A Daily Flood of Press Releases
When some studies get published, they’re promoted with a press release. Sometimes the journal initiates the press release, but more often the lead author’s institution is the primary sender (journals collaborate in many of these cases). Public...
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Caldera IS, LLC
Are you ready to watch a "Terminator" movie every day. But, instead of action heroes, you read press releases?
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The Jack Andraka Story — Uncovering the Hidden Contradictions Behind a Science Folk Hero
The story of a teenage science whiz who used free information sources to create a novel cancer screening test may be full of holes. Whether it is or not, it no longer seems the clear, happy story the media wanted
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Caldera IS, LLC
TBT: The article that was never published, the "citizen scientist" who fooled many.
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Is HEAL a Gateway Policy?
Generally, the US government has been reluctant to make OA mandates without careful consultation processes. This has kept the US from the wild swings in policy we’ve seen in the UK and the EU, where mandates have been hatched with some abandon....
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Caldera IS, LLC
A new NIH policy about opioid research repeats bad, old ideas, asserts governmental IP protection, and seems unlikely to work.
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The Top Posts for July & January
Summer has arrived, and with it a slightly more leisurely publication pace. Even wallowing in the summer doldrums, some posts have attracted a lot of attention. Here are the top essays from the past month: “5 Ways Preprint Servers Could Improve.” I...
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Caldera IS, LLC
It's hot out, but it was cool six months ago. "The Geyser" continues to be both, as well.
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The National Science Foundation Awards scite Competitive R&D Grant to Build Tool to Identify and… by @sciteai
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Wikipedia's Writing — Tests Show It's Too Sophisticated for Its Audience
Wikipedia aims to be an encyclopedia for everyone, but its core version is too difficult for most readers, and even its Simple English offshoot falls short of its readability goals.
The Nonfinancial Barriers to Access
OA believes all the barriers to access are eliminated if financial barriers fall. But things have changed, and the real barriers are more subtle, immovable, and important. Oddly, they can largely be overcome by keeping paid access.
"The Last Jedi" That Should Have Been
"The Last Jedi" is a terrible movie -- it is a big finger in the eye to every Star Wars fan, and to the franchise overall, poking fun at the stories, the characters, and the mythos that has been sustaining the franchise and its fans for 40 years....