Nature Publishing Group is launching a new data journal called “Scientific Data”. The editorial announcement in nature invites submissions of “data descriptors” to the journal, which are described as: Data Descriptor articles are fully fledged, peer-reviewed scientific publications, and will be listed in major indexing services, thereby giving authors the credit they deserve for sharing…
Tomorrow’s issue of Nature has a special section devoted to the future of academic publishing. The topics covered are not particularly surprising (see also my older posts on this subject), but I found the articles really informative and enjoyable to read, in particular “Open access: The true cost of science publishing”, a News Feature by…
Figure: A classic Blackadder episode on a not completely unrelated subject I’m shamelessly abusing the aftermath of the Stapel affair as an excuse to paint the beginning of this post in novelette colors. Admittedly, the case doesn’t exactly recommend itself for jokes, but the temptation was too great after noting that the combined final reports…
Science news and the blogosphere are buzzing since Peter Woit, a mathematician at Columbia who is running a quite popular, alas somewhat controversial blog about particle physics, announced 4 days ago that: Reliable rumors couldn’t wait, and they indicate that the experiments are seeing much the same thing as last year in this year’s new…
In a correspondence in tomorrow’s edition of Nature, “Data accessibility: Getting a handle on biological data”, Dave Roberts & Alex Hardisty call for contributions to an initiative that prepares a white paper on data accessibility in the biological sciences, intended for the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 funding call in 2013. The aim is to contribute…
theoretical ecology 