Researchers’ reasons for publishing their work
When we want to change something, we have to look at the incentives for those involved. References Swan, A. (2006)...
Martin Fenner
Making your study public before you start can be fun
On Monday I was finally able to start the clinical trial Everolimus for patients with relapsed/refractory germ cell cancer (RADIT), and I’m now looking forward to recruit the first patient. We aim to treat...
Evolving English at the British Library
On Saturday I went to see the exhibition Evolving English at the British Library in London. The exhibition explores the English language in all its diversity and was recommended to me by Matt Brown, an expert...
UK PubMed Central explained in Nucleic Acids Research Paper
Last Tuesday Nucleic Acids Research published a nice paper describing the UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) database (McEntyre 2010). UKPMC was...
Scientific Attribution Presentation
Earlier today I gave a short presentation about the Scientific Attribution Principles I posted here two weeks ago....
More Gobbledygook at PLoS Blogs
Thanks to a lot of hard work both at Nature Network and here at PLoS Blogs, all blog posts and comments from my former blog at Nature Network (August 2007 to August 2010) are now also...