Cameron comes up with several persuasive reasons in Why good intentions are not enough to get negative results published: The idea is that there is a huge backlog of papers detailing negative results that people are gagging to get out if only there was somewhere to publish them. Unfortunately there ...

Liz Allen writes today: One snowy weekend in January 2008, I was lucky enough to attend the Science Blogging Conference (co-organized by Bora Zivkovic our Online Discussion Expert) in NC where I networked with the great and the good of the scientific communication world. PLoS distributed free T-shir...

I've been having fun lately watching this guy struggle with the 21st century realities of scientific publishing which has a lot of parallels with the struggle that journalistic curmudgeons have - too steeped in the 20th century model to have the courage to think in a new way: Socialism in science, o...

The Conyers bill (a.k.a. Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, HR 801), is back. Despite all the debunking it got last time around, and despite the country having more important problems to deal with right now, this regressive bill, completely unchanged word-for-word, is apparently back again. It is...

The other night, at the meeting of the Science Communicators of North Carolina, the highlight of the event was a Skype conversation with Chris Brodie who is currently in Norway on a Fulbright, trying to help the scientists and science journalists there become more effective in communicating Norwegia...

Berlin 6 is over - and what a week it was! From the perspective of an organizer it is surreal seeing something that you’ve been planning for almost a year happen in a matter of just three days. I think it was a very diverse and interesting conference that succeeded in bringing together stakeholder...

Berlin 6 is over - and what a week it was! From the perspective of an organizer it is surreal seeing something that you’ve been planning for almost a year happen in a matter of just three days. I think it was a very diverse and interesting conference that succeeded in bringing together stakeho...

The current meme seems to be data to rule them all A bunch of blog posts out there discussing the importance of data, all pretty much screaming out for the importance of open data. First a couple of posts on Nodalities. In A data-centric view , Zach Beauvais talks about a rather fascinating blog pos...

A friend just pointed me to this piece on academic blogging published in Times Higher Education. It’s an interesting read, though many of the names and examples used in the article were already familiar to me. I’ve been studying blogging for quite a while now, and specifically the use of...

Electronic Publication and the Narrowing of Science and Scholarship by James A. Evans, ironically behind the paywall, has got a lot of people scratching their heads - it sounds so counter-intuitive, as well as opposite from other pieces of similar research. There is a good discussion on FriendFeed a...