Month: January 2017
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Comparing OUP to other publishers
Any good scientist knows that one must have an adequate experimental control when trying to determine the significance of effects. Therefore, in order to test the significance of the 106 broken DOIs I reported at OUP yesterday, I created a comparable stratified ‘control’ sample of 21 journals NOT published by OUP that are indexed in…
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Documenting the many failures across OUP journals
Updated 2017-02-01: Mathematical equation rendering failures spotted at the journal ‘Molecular Biology & Evolution’ (MBE). Added to the lengthy list. In this post I shall try and summarise the different types of error that are occurring across Oxford University Press (OUP) journals at the moment. It appears OUP have changed their underlying platform software this…
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Oxford University Press have failed to preserve access to the scholarly record
This morning, a PhD student asked me if I could get access to copy of: “Bayes factors unmask highly variable information content, bias, and extreme influence in phylogenomic analyses” by Jeremy M Brown and Robert C Thomson which was first published online (ahead of print) on 20th December 2016. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syw101 The student urgently needs…