Blog Category: Guest posts

Gary McDowell, Future of Research and Tufts University, and Pandelis Perakakis, Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Centre, University of Granada, Spain Please address any correspondence to [email protected] and [email protected] In reforming the cultur... Open Scholar (http://www.openscholar.org.uk/, @os_soc) is an open, collectively governed organisation of volunteer researchers that was founded to develop concrete alternatives to the problem of journal-dependent scientific evaluation and communicati...

John R. Inglis and Richard Sever, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Please address any correspondence to [email protected] and [email protected] bioRxiv (biorxiv.org) is a not-for-profit, online archiving and distribution service for preprints[1] of re...

James Fraser, UCSF Can we move towards more open and rapid sharing of scientific results without putting younger scientists careers at risk?  Ideally we want evaluation (of candidates for faculty positions, of promotion of Assistant Professors, of graduate students for fellowships, or of grants for funding) to be thorough and based entirely on a careful study of the science.

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Samuel L. Díaz-Muñoz Center for Genomics and Systems Biology and Department of Biology, New York University Pre-prints of research articles have been proposed as a way to advance scientific progress, establish priority of discovery, and ameliorate some of th...

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