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Author: Ross Mounce

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Brockington Lab Weekly Research Round-Up

    This week I chose the papers for the Brockington Lab ‘journal club’ here at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge (I prefer to call it the ‘weekly research round-up’ though, because good content has nothing-to-do with journals per se!). We rotate the choice of papers between each lab member every week. Sometimes the focus is…

  • Publishing grant proposals, presubmission

    There are a lot of really interesting works being published over at Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO).  If you aren’t already following the updates you can do so via RSS, Twitter, or via email (scroll to the bottom for sign-up). In this post I’m going to discuss why Chad Hammond’s contribution is so remarkable and…

  • RIO Journal Blossoms: an overview of RIO so far

    Just a quick update to let you know how the new Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) journal is going. You may remember I wrote a blog post here explaining my enthusiasm for this new journal. I’m delighted to say it is exceeding my expectations. After announcing the launch with coverage in Science (AAAS) News, Nature News, and…

  • ESA moves to Wiley and predictably there are problems already

    TL;DR summary: ESA data papers should be free to read but Wiley (ESA’s new publishing ‘partner’) just charged me $45.60 yesterday to access one of them. They have done this kind of ‘accidental’ profit-generation before, as have other big publishers. John Wiley & Sons (whom I will refer to as ‘Wiley’ from now on) is not…