We can shift academic culture through publishing choices

We can shift academic culture through publishing choices

Researchers give papers for free (and often actually pay) to exploitative publishers who make millions off of our articles by locking them behind paywalls. This discriminates not only against the public (who are usually the ones that paid for the research in the first place), but also against the academics from institutions that cannot afford to pay for journal subscriptions and the 'scholarly ...

What academic publishing can do for science?

Can we predict safety culture?

Safety culture is broadly recognized as important for Air Traffic Management and various studies have addressed its characterization and assessment. Nevertheless, relations between safety culture and formal and informal organizational structures and processes are yet not well understood. We aim to improve the understanding of these relations by agent-based organizational modeling and thus provi...

Academic publishing is electronic publishing

Derk Haank began by saying that he wanted to keep his presentation simple and would make only a few statements. The first of these was to say that, although it might be stating the obvious, academic publishing is electronic publishing. It has been remarkable how quickly things have progressed since the invention of the Web, and an EC study recently recognised that the revolution in electronic p...

What can we learn from publishing endoscopy trial protocols?

Clinical trials in medicine have come under public scrutiny as never before in the last decade with scandal after scandal about misrepresentation or misinterpretation of results leading to erroneous clinical conclusions. High-profile campaigns have been started by the British Medical Journal and others to allow access to original trial data, even down to the original case record forms, so that ...