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Month: January 2013

  • I’ve enrolled in some MOOCs

    I’ve written about MOOCs last December but never actually enrolled in one myself… until now. Sure, I’ve done Codecademy courses and Codeschool courses which I’ve immensely enjoyed but they’re perhaps(?) not quite the same thing. This year I’ve decided to bite the bullet and do some Coursera courses (depicted below, confusingly there are different courses run…

  • Gold OA Pricewatch #2 – BMC journal APCs increase

    Just a quick note that BMC journal APC’s have increased from what they were in 2012.   Luckily I had the 2012 data saved on my computer so I can compare prices directly. I’ve put the data for 97 journals (not all of them) here on figshare. The mean price increase is just over 5%.…