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Month: January 2015

  • Manuscript submission modelling – my comments in full

    My full comments on the PLOS ONE manuscript submission modelling paper:   On 27 January 2015 at 23:05, Chris Woolston <REDACTED> wrote: Dr. Mounce, Hello again. I contacted you awhile ago for my Nature column on the intersection of science and social media. Yep I remember. I’m wondering if I could once more ask for…

  • Open Research London launch event

    Last week, on Monday 19th January, I co-organised the first ever Open Research London event at Imperial College London, with the help of local organisers; Jon Tennant & Torsten Reimer. We invited two speakers for our first meeting: Chris Banks (Director of Library Services at Imperial, and an elected Board Member of Research Libraries UK) &…

  • Author manuscripts versus the publisher version of record

    [Update: I’ve submitted this idea as a FORCE11 £1K Challenge research proposal 2015-01-13. I may be unemployed from April 2015 onwards (unsolicited job offers welcome!), so I certainly might find myself with plenty of time on my hands to properly get this done…!] Inspired by something I heard Stephen Curry say recently, and with a little…

  • Elsevier wants our feedback. Here’s mine

    So, apparently Elsevier are launching a new open access mega-journal some time this year, joining the bandwagon of similar efforts from almost every other major publisher. A lovely acknowledgement of the roaring success of PLOS ONE, who did it first a long time ago. They’re only ~8 years behind, but they’re learning. I for one…

  • Dark Research: behind the preprint

    This post is about my new preprint I’ve uploaded to PeerJ PrePrints: Mounce, R. (2015) Dark Research: information content in some paywalled research papers is not easily discoverable online. PeerJ PrePrints Needless to say, it’s not peer-reviewed yet but you can change that by commenting on it at the excellent PeerJ PrePrints website. All feedback is…